Dear People,
I turned in THE LEGIONS OF FIRE not quite a month ago–140,845 words including the front matter. I’m overall pleased with the novel, the first of a four-book fantasy series for Tor, but the thing that pleases me most is that I had a chance to use my background in history and Latin, my undergraduate majors. This is an extremely erudite book, even for me. continue reading…
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,
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…
At Books & Co. in Dayton. Some signings were better than others. This was one of the best.
With fan David Huskins
With an acquaintance from 1970: a 15,000 pound daisycutter bomb.
Taking picture of Northrup F-89 Scorpion, high-tech air defense from his childhood.
The bomb casing beside me is not, as I thought I read on the card, that of one similar to the plutonium bomb Bockscar dropped on Nagasaki.