I've been thinking for awhile that I haven't been keeping in touch with people.  Covid stay-at-home orders don't help.  Now I will be even more isolated since the barn has shut down.  The last saddlebred show horses were auctioned off last Saturday, for next to nothing.  At least I don't think the attending meat buyer got any of them.  So that ( Read more... )

A further response to anonymous who suggested several interesting things:

I was wondering what face of god Gerridon was associated with and whether I had ever established that.  I don't think so.  Preservation seems like a good guess, given his thirst for immortality and his son, Kindrie.   I also like the idea that as such he wouldn't be able to ( Read more... )

1. I got several interesting responses to my last post.  This is my attempt to answer at least three of them, taken from my writer's journal.
2. My problem is probably rooted in the fact that I didn’t think through all the ramifications when I first introduced these themes.  If I had waited to set everything in stone, though, I would never have started ( Read more... )

Sorry to have been quiet for so long. No, nothing is wrong, except that this tenth novel is giving me problems.  It's the next to last and there are so many loose ends to clear up, not to mention issues raised here which should also advance the plot..  My thought is that Jame needs at least another clash with Gerridon if not two before the end, ( Read more... )

I wasn't expecting this, but Baen wants me to go over the By Demons Possessed proofs again.  Presumably this is for the mass paperback edition.  Anyway, several readers sent me lists of corrections the last time and now I can't find them.  Given that these were the sort of mistakes I routinely make and then miss, please, if you still have a record ( Read more... )

Got home from Dublin yesterday.  We spent the first week touring the western coast of Ireland -- beautiful country full of neolithic ruins and more recent structures (from the middle ages up to 1950 in the case of one beehive hut) built exactly the same way.  Ditto the stone walls and perhaps the descendents of the sheep within them.  Another ( Read more... )

The Dublin schedule is out.  I'm pleased to find that I'm on four events.  Hope to see some of you at some of them!

Autographs: Friday at 11:00
16 Aug 2019, Friday 11:00 - 11:50, Level 4 Foyer (CCD)
Is epic fantasy conservative?
Format: Panel
16 Aug 2019, Friday 13:00 - 13:50, Wicklow Hall-1 (CCD)
Back in 2013, Gollancz’s Twitter account made the ( Read more... )

Earlier this year I was contacted by Assaph Mehr for a website called The Protagonist Speaks.  The format is that a literary hero is interviewed and expresses her/himself in his/her own words, sometimes within the context of their world.  An interesting concept.  Anyway, I wrote a short interview with Jame, which has just been posted:  Read more... )

I see from Damien's post to yahoo that Baen has released my Tai-tastigon free short story. https://www.baen.com/talisman It's a lead in to the new novel, due out May 7th, basically about what happens in the city before Jame comes back to it, from Cleppetty's point of view.  I'll be at Uncle Hugo's in Minneapolis May 11 signing books.  I think you ( Read more... )

Here's something you might enjoy.  Kathrin and her daughter Gabe have launched a series of podcasts based on my novels.  These are partly reader's guides, partly commentary, partly sheer appreciation.  They are delightfully enthusiastic, at any rate, and a boon to me since (as you know) I don't like re-reading my own work.   You can find them at

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