Science Fiction Author of the JUMP 225 Trilogy
This weekend, I did something that’s guaranteed to strike fear in the heart of even the most accomplished writer: I looked back through the old drafts of my novel. Every writer has a different method of rewriting, and there’s no one method that fits everybody. Some bang out their magnum opus in one draft, more or less; some take five or ten drafts. I tend towards the latter end of the scale. My book Infoquake took no less than … Read more
Genre is a twentieth century concept (or perhaps a nineteenth century one). It’s going away. (Eventually.) Historically, genre has been mostly useful as a marketing and publishing tool. Bookstores want to sell more copies of books, so they naturally group them together. After all, someone who’s just bought Ursula Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea is statistically more likely to buy Michael Moorcock’s Elric of Melnibone than, say, a Rosamunde Pilcher romance or a Louis L’Amour western or a Frommer’s travel … Read more