Richard Kadrey is on John Scalzi's Big Idea today, talking about art, work, writing, 'overnight success,' and angels and devils:
"If you want to be professional writer get yourself a truckful of guts but a shot glass of ego and maybe you’ll make it. You’re not dead until you decide you’re dead. Look at me. I’m that guy you hear about sometimes. The 20-year overnight success." -- RIchard Kadrey
http://whatever.scalzi.com/2011/11/03/
Read the first few chapters of ALOHA FROM HELL here.
-- Diana
Check out Sir Terry Pratchett talking about Snuff, Discworld, writing and SFF.
We at Harper Voyager are very pleased to announce the winner of master steampunk craftsman Jake von Slatt's Mooney & Fitch Somnotrope:
Lindsey Scott
Congratulations!
If you don't know about Jake's work you owe it to yourself to head over to the Steampunk Workshop to see his amazing creations.
You'll find his contributions in the spectacular illustrated steampunk anthology THE THACKERY T. LAMBSHEAD CABINET OF CURIOSITIES, ed. by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, and more fantastic writing and artwork from some of the most renowned and bestselling writers and artists in speculative and graphic fiction, including Holly Black, Greg Broadmore, Ted Chiang, Rikki Ducornet, Amal El-Mohtar, Minister Faust, Jeffrey Ford, Lev Grossman, N.K. Jemisin, Caitlín R. Kiernan, China Miéville, Mike Mignola, Michael Moorcock, Alan Moore, Garth Nix, Naomi Novik, James A. Owen, Helen Oyeyemi, J.K. Potter, Cherie Priest, Ekaterina Sedia, Jan Svankmajer, Rachel Swirsky, Carrie Vaughn, Tad Williams, Charles Yu and others.
You can have a peak here.
Want something something spooky to read around Halloween? What could be better than GHOSTS BY GASLIGHT?
Edited by Jack Dann (World Fantasy Award-winning co-editor of Dreaming Down Under) and Nick Gevers (acclaimed editor and book reviewer), Ghosts by Gaslight is a showcase collection of all-new stories of steampunk and supernatural suspense by modern masters of horror, fantasy, sf, and the paranormal. An absolutely mind-boggling gathering of some of today’s very best dark storytellers—including Peter Beagle, James Morrow, Sean Williams, Gene Wolfe, Garth Nix, Marly Youmans, Jeffery Ford, and Robert Silverberg—Ghosts by Gaslight offers chilling gothic and spectral tales in a delightfully twisted Victorian and Edwardian vein. Think Henry James’s Turn of the Screw and Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde with a decidedly steampunk edge, and you’re ready to confront Ghosts by Gaslight.
“Devotees of M. R. James, H. P. Lovecraft and Algernon Blackwood will relish this superior anthology of original stories…. It seems almost unfair to single out individual works when all 18 are superb and will be cherished by steampunk and horror fans alike.” -- Publishers Weekly *starred review*
Check it out here. And here's a great new review by the Deseret News.
-- Diana