I’ve got a question from a reader: “What books do you recommend for almost-12-yr-olds who are really smart but only read horse books?” I’ve already got Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar (particularly the Arrows books to start with), Caitlin Brennan’s HOUSE OF THE STAR in particular, Robin McKinley’s THE BLUE SWORD, and I’m thinkin’ maybe Anne McCaffrey’s Harper Hall trilogy, although fire lizards are not *technically* horses. :) What am I missing, I asked gleefully, because there is nothing so much fun as asking LJ for book recommendations. *beams*
Author: mizkit
Right Angles to Fairyland Revision Commission
Okay, lads, this is what I’m going to do with the Angles revisions: This is a crowdfund thing that will probably run about six months, since I figure I’ll get the revisions done around the end of June. That’s my goal, anyway, so I’ll set a delivery deadline of July 1, 2011. Here’s the catch: I may close the commission as early as April 14, 3 months from now, if I get it done by then. I may give 24 hours’ notice about it closing, or I may not. I’ll…
Inheritors’ Cycle update
I’ve had a number of people ask over the past couple of years whether there would be more books about Belinda and Javier (THE QUEEN’S BASTARD, THE PRETENDER’S CROWN). I finally have an update about that, and the answer is, “Not for the foreseeable future.” This is a business decision, not a lack of enthusiasm. The people who have contacted me about the Inheritors’ Cycle have loved it, as do I, as does my publisher. But let me try to explain what happens in the life cycle of a book…
Angles = Kickstarter project?
asked if I’d thought of doing a Kickstarter project with Angles (or presumably anything else). I have, yes, of course, but I don’t know a whole lot about book *production*, just writing. I do know how much I get paid for a novel, so I figure that under any reasonable circumstances to produce a limited edition print book, I should probably at least double that number to account for production costs (editing, layout, cover art, interior art because what the hell, if I’m going to do it I might as…
a great post about pirating
You all know by now that as a rule I’d rather give away my books in electronic format than sell them, because piracy is rampant and there’s nothing I can do to stop it except hope that if I gave away copies it might build a relationship that piracy never will. But let me point you at an excellent post about the effects of illegal downloading on authors, and let me make it clear that when I say “authors” I mean “me”. I haven’t gone to the trouble of numbers…