steve boyett | June 6, 2010
Subterranean Press will be publishing my novelette “Not Last Night but the Night Before” in Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy 2, edited by Subterranean’s own Bill Schafer. The hardcover will be published January 2011; the limited edition will feature full-color art not in the trade edition and a chapbook of two original short stories by [...]
steve boyett | May 29, 2010
Here’s the second talk I gave to the Southern California Writers Association on May 15.
This one’s about the changing roles and even nature of authorship in the digital age, and the way digital media affect our notions of copyright and intellectual property, and therefore the business models that have been axiomatic to most writers their [...]
steve boyett | May 26, 2010
May 15 I spoke at the monthly meeting of the Southern California Writers Association in Fountain Valley, CA. The first topic was “Writing and Publishing in the Digital Age.” Here’s the talk (1 hr. 6 min.):
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I’ll put the second talk online when [...]
steve boyett | March 30, 2010
I have amazing dreams. I consider myself very fortunate, as I know a great many people who tell me they don’t remember their dreams well, or dream in dissociated fragments that don’t cohere, or have dreams that seem irrelevant or insignificant or just plain dull.
I tend to dream full Technicolor $500-million special-effects-laden Hollywood extravagonzos, which [...]
steve boyett | March 28, 2010
One of the great ironies of my popular Podrunner podcast of fixed-BPM workout music mixes is that, in the last year and a half or so, I have been so busy splitting my time between producing it and working on novels that I’ve had very little time for exercise. For most of the last couple [...]
steve boyett | March 22, 2010
My guest post, “The Schlock of the New,” on Richard Curtis’ wonderful E-Reads blog is now online. E-Reads is essential reading for anyone who wants to stay abreast of new innovations in publishing. This is the first of my “Digital Writes” series of guest posts for E-Reads centering around New Media and the implications [...]
steve boyett | March 17, 2010
I have a kind of weird history as a DJ. I didn’t come up through house parties and then bars and then small clubs to larger clubs, which is the fairly normal route. I went from house parties to megahuge podcasts to clubs and conventions. More people download my mixes in an average month than [...]
steve boyett | March 13, 2010
Maureen is wrapped in a blanket on the easy chair in our living room, drinking coffee and reading texts from her halfsister about an axe found in her basement with a Frankenstein monster face painted on the blade. I’m on the couch nearby, drinking coffee and reading and slowly waking up. Or trying to read, [...]
steve boyett | March 12, 2010
…is the title of my guest blog post at the Science Fiction & Fantasy Insider website. It’s an argument against expositional writing that tries to show how inferential prose (“adumbraic,” y’all) provides a more participatory experience for the reader.
steve boyett | March 4, 2010
Let us take a moment today to honor the humble air shaft, without whom many of our favorite filmic moments and plot devices simply would not be. The air shaft enables clever escapes, crucial infiltrations and rescues, mysterious hostile movements and attacks, convenient storage, and overheard conversations of relevant magnitude. In fact I would like [...]
