Beauvoir, Jeff Davis' final home and now the Shrine of the Confederacy.
Dave beneath a live oak, originally twin-trunked, under which Jeff Davis sat and read.
Dave, sitting on the foundation of a Biloxi motel destroyed by Katrina; enjoying sunshine and a lack of human contact.
A full house for the panel "Non-Conciliatory Fantasy"
Dave signing a book for J Griffin Barber; Mark Van Name (foreground) and John Picacio share the table.
Alan Beatts moving fast to deliver a drink during the signing at his store.
Dave chats with Michael Swanwick at the Borderlands book signing. Alan Beatts in the background.
Dave and Rick Kleffel, who interviewed Dave
James Griffin Barber and Dave at the Winchester Historic Firearms Museum during the tour of the Winchester Mystery House
The Winchester Mystery House
Jack McDevitt, John Picacio, Toni Weisskopf, Eric Flint, Lou Anders, David Drake, and David Weber
Dave, Sarah Hoyt, Eric Flint, and David Weber
Dave, Lance Larka (giving a tour of iXpressGenes, Inc.) and Eric Flint
Dave, looking at the Albertosaurus at the Royal Ontario Museum. The Archelon is to the left (out of the picture) and at ceiling level.
The Archelon
Dear People,
I’m well into (about 60K) the rough draft of THE LEGIONS OF FIRE. This is the first book of the new fantasy series for Tor. When asked, I picked The Books of the Elements as the series title because I thought it sounded good and I sincerely hoped that it would fit the series as it developed. Now that I’m this far along, it seems to be fitting pretty well. continue reading…
Dave, Linda Quinton (Associate Publisher of Tor), Karen Zimmerman (webmaster), Mark Van Name (who wears many hats; here, friend of Dave and Tom), Jennie Faries (graphics designer for Baen Books) and Tom Doherty (Publisher of Tor and Linda's dad.)
The combined communities of Sauk City and Prairie du Sac are in no doubt who their most famous resident was.
Dave on Sunday afternoon talking about meeting Derleth in 1965.
The gathering Saturday afternoon in the cemetery where David Schweitzer gave an informative talk on the real people who were the characters in Derleth's books.
Dave at August Derleth's grave.
Dave at the entrance to Augie's Room of Leystra's Restaurant, where we had dinner Saturday night.
Dear People,
Folks frequently ask me how long it takes to write a novel. (People ask me a lot of questions that presumably seem simpler from the outside than they do to me.) The answer depends on a lot of things, in particular the length of the novel. (I average about a thousand words of rough draft per day; thus a novel of 135K words takes around two weeks longer to write than a similar book that was 120K words long.) continue reading…
Dave and Stacey Helton beside the replica of the Surprise, Jack Aubrey's frigate.
Dave, who thought tanks were cramped, on the Soviet submarine b-39.
Dear People,
Baen Books sent me copies of WHEN THE TIDE RISES just before newsletter 43 came out, so by now it’s thoroughly on sale. This is the latest RCN (Leary/Mundy) space opera, and it’s a lovely production.
The splendid Steve Hickman painting is complemented by a transparent foil imprinted with a hologram, here showing the actual holographic display of the story. Steve and the cover designer, my friend Jennie Faries, championed the process, and Toni Weisskopf, the Baen publisher, gave it a shot. continue reading…