So it’s been two days since the publication of Domesticating Dragons, though it feels like much longer. When I learned that my book would come out in early January 2021, I was relieved. I figured that people would be coming back to work after the holidays and the US presidential election — regardless of its […]
Book Release and the Great Dragon Egg Hunt
Seven years ago I started writing a book about dragons. These were not magical or mythical creatures, nor did the story take place on another world. This was science fiction: dragons created after rapid advances in DNA sequencing, genetic engineering, and synthetic biology. I imagined a world where we didn’t just create them, but modified […]
Putting the Fact in Fantasy Sold to Penguin Random House
About five years ago I started a blog series discussing the scientific/technical/medical aspects of science fiction and cultural/historical/world-building aspects of fantasy with input from real-world experts. Since that time, the Science in Sci-fi / Fact in Fantasy series has collected guest posts from more than a hundred professional contributors who were willing to share their […]
Querying Writers Should Know the Publishing Industry
It’s a well-known fact that while lots of people fancy the idea of becoming a published author, very few of them actually achieve that goal. The most common failure stage is almost certainly the first one: most people don’t actually write a book. That’s evident from my personal experience and also well-established from the statistics […]
Writer in Motion Week 4: More CP Revisions
It’s the fourth and final week of #WriterInMotion — a month-long effort to write/edit a 1,000 word story while sharing the process on my blog. This week I had the pleasure of working with two more critique partners. Logistics were more challenging this week, as I was out in the country for some end-of-summer-break, socially […]
