steve boyett | September 30, 2009
I think science fiction (and to some extent fantasy) writers tend to fall into one of two camps: Wellsians or Vernians. Both men were seminal figures in the development of modern science fiction. Both enjoyed enormous popularity in their time. Both created landmark works that established staked out iconic images and themes. Lunar exploration, extreme [...]
steve boyett | September 28, 2009
Mysterious Galaxy will hold the first official book signing for ELEGY BEACH on November 3, the day of release. I’ll see what kinds of schwag I can bring along as well (mix CDs, flyers, bookmarks, whatever else I can think of). If you live in the San Diego area, swing by & say hi!
Mysterious [...]
steve boyett | September 27, 2009
When I practiced martial arts (which I did for 25 years) and yoga (which I did for about 7 years) I was focused, intent, and lost in the moment. In fact yoga felt like slow-motion martial arts. Outside of these things, I am the second-clumsiest person I have ever seen. I bang into doorways, stub [...]
steve boyett | September 27, 2009
So tonight I wash dishes because our dishwasher’s broken, and I’m a good little doobie and I clean up afterward, and I carry the dirty strainer to the trashcan to bang it clean. Only, being me, I’ve left a cabinet door open, and when I bend to bang the strainer I gack my head doubleplus [...]
steve boyett | September 25, 2009
Chapter Two of ELEGY BEACH is now online in HTML & PDF formats. This is the full Chapter Two and goes a bit past the sample available at the end of ARIEL.
The ELEGY BEACH promotional audio is also online. You can listen to it here:
http://www.elegybeach.com/audio/elegy_beach_promo_final.mp3
And in case you missed the ARIEL audio promo, here it [...]
steve boyett | September 23, 2009
ZOMBIES, edited by the incomparable John Skipp, has just been published, and holy cannoli, this thing is gorgeous. I’ve been looking forward to the book coming out, but I had no idea it was going to be such a very cool thing.
Some background: In the late 80s John and his then-writing partner Craig Spector published [...]
steve boyett | September 21, 2009
Because a couple of other giveaways & contest are occurring at the same time, and because an odd number of you have inexplicably pristine copies, I’ve extended the deadline on the Ganked-Out ARIEL contest to Sept. 25.
The Rules: The owner of the most nasty, gnarly, beatup dogeared puppychewed copy will win an autographed copy of [...]
steve boyett | September 17, 2009
It’s standard when an audiobook is about to go into production for the author to provide a list of pronunciations for words and names the narrator may not be clear on. This is especially true of fantasy & science fiction, where even the title can be something likeThe Gloffnokkrz of Grlfnib 9 (whothehell wants to [...]
steve boyett | September 15, 2009
I’ll write a “real” post in a few days, I swear. Meantime here’s what’s new:
–The ARIEL e-book is now available
–ELEGYBEACH.COM is now live.
–Production just completed on the ELEGY BEACH audiobook. I’ll be writing a post on the audio production for both novels because my level of involvement was so unusual.
–My novella “Like Pavlov’s Dogs” has [...]
steve boyett | September 14, 2009
Glorious full version here.
