Updates, Secret Projects, And Miscellany

UPDATES, SECRET PROJECTS, AND MISCELLANY Hmm. After 3:00 pm out right here within the Wild Wild West and only just sitting down to put in writing this week’s blog publish. Shame on meâ€"type of. I wrote a swell post yesterday, but it’s a kind of that has to have a certain set of eyes on it and a particular okay before I really feel comfy running it, and I didn’t get that earlier than I needed to run off to a lunch assembly, get a haircut, and do another work. Now it’s after 6:00 back east in order that “okay” isn’t likely to seem today. What’s a blogger to do? How about a bunch of random little topics not worthy of a full-on weblog post? (At least, not yet.) Okay, then. In no particular order . . . PROLOGUE BOOKS We’re making vital progress on the science fiction, fantasy, and horror choices from Prologue Books (okay, I’ll admit it, that’s the submit I’m waiting for an okay on) and I can no less than point out a listing of SF and fantasy books that have type of snuck out into the world beneath that i mprint. There’s some nice stuff here, additionally in no specific order: A Song in Stone by Walter H. Hunt The Galaxy Primes by E.E. “Doc” Smith Leonie of the Jungle by Joan Conquest The Status Civilization by Robert Sheckley A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder by James DeMille Edison’s Conquest of Mars by Garrett Putnam Serviss In the Sargasso Sea by Thomas A. Janiver These are superb books, beginning with one which’s fairly new, and a bunch more that firmly reside in “classic” territory. More on what I needed to do with all this at a later date. In the meantime, comply with those links, buy those books, and luxuriate in! THE FATHOMLESS ABYSS I am presently sitting on the primary Fathomless Abyss novella that has truly been accomplished, and that by J.M. McDermott. I was supposed to finish mine firstâ€"it must be on the market now, trulyâ€"but excuses excuses excuses and references again to those two relevant posts: Depression and Writer’s Block and Save the Bullshit Excuses And anyway, I should have had Joe’s e-book read and notes despatched again to him every week in the past, however I got caught up in some should-do projects, consulting work, Emerald City Comicon, and other issues that shouldn’t have prevented me from digging into that manuscript, particularly since I truly need to learn that more than I want to do that different stuff. Well, ECCC was fun. . . . I will save additional bullshit excuses and get on that this afternoon. I promise. I will also get again to my own novella, Devils of the Endless Deep, and have a completed first draft by May 1, damn it. SECRET PROJECTS It looks like I all the time have some batch of irons within the fire, and I actually have heaps simmering proper now. The listing of things I wish I could let you know about is as exciting as it's mammoth, but for now you’ll just have to regulate me on Twitter or at Athans & Associates Creative Consulting . . . or right right here at Fantasy Autho r’s Handbook to look at these click on into place. All the times I’m advised “No thanks,” or “Not on this lifetime, asshole,” or some variation on that theme, properly . . . that’s between me and whoever it was who clearly failed to recognize my genius. PROFESSOR ATHANS Dig it. I will be educating a continuing schooling class based mostly on The Guide to Writing Fantasy and Science Fiction at Bellevue College here in the greater Puget Sound Region beginning in June for the summer time term. If you reside in the area and desire a a lot, much more hands on and in-depth examine of the topic than I’ve been in a position to manage an hour or so at a time at conventions, maintain your eyes on the Bellevue College web site for the soon-to-be-posted summer time schedule. I’m really trying forward to this! If you’re in Los Angeles, keep a day in October open for me, too. Looks like I will be participating within the Writers Digest Conference there. Very early on that oneâ €"details to comply with. I’m going to be at PAX, too, but probably not talking. Look for me wandering the aisles making an attempt to drum up work. GAMASUTRA I’m a featured blogger once more over at Gamasutra, where I make the case for why (no less than most) video game studios should keep their tie-in fiction in home, like TSR/Wizards of the Coast and Games Workshop (Black Library) have. I’m proper. Heed my words! WHAT ELSE? I obtained a haircut right now. That was cool. Um. . . . â€"Philip Athans About Philip Athans Fill in your particulars below or click on an icon to log in: