Once upon a time, I made an offer on behalf of Dragon Moon Press on an urban fantasy book called TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES, by an author named Jamie Wyman. Catherine Sharp is an IT professional with a personal debt to the Greek Goddess of Discord, Eris. When Cat discovers that her soul is a chip in [...]
When friends urged me to read Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game, the pitch that sold me was this one: “Children are trained to play wargame simulations, which turn out to be actual remote-control combat. This book is about the main character discovering this, and coming to terms with the morality of it.” Which, if you’ve [...]
Two big announcements today: WHEN THE HERO COMES HOME is a finalist for ForeWord Book of the Year in the Anthology category! Many thanks to Ed Greenwood, Dragon Moon Press, and all our wonderful contributors. If you have read and enjoyed WHEN THE HERO COMES HOME, please take a moment to review it on Amazon, [...]
I’m fortunate to be at a place in my career where I have a great many friends who are excellent writers, and a generous subset of those friends are excellent published writers. I admit, without shame, that when I go to a bookstore, I browse the SF/F/H shelves looking for the names of people I [...]
To celebrate the US release of THE DESERTER, Peadar Ó Guilín visits The Big Idea over on John Scalzi’s blog to talk about the themes of cannibalism, morality, and survival in his novels. Peadar has done a couple of guest posts for this blog, and his short fiction is not limited to the fantastic and [...]
