steve boyett | October 27, 2009
I’m madly scrambling to get ready for the World Fantasy Convention this weekend. We leave Thursday morning & I’m so not ready.
The day after I get back I have my Elegy Beach launch party & signing at Mysterious Books in San Diego (Nov. 3). I’m almost ready for that. I’ll be bringing schwag and some [...]
steve boyett | October 26, 2009
Several websites have asked for essays from me in conjunction with the release of Elegy Beach. Naturally I’m only too happy to oblige! But even though I’m perfectly comfortable promoting my work, rather than just write some long commercial for my new book I think it’s fun to use these as opportunities to talk about [...]
steve boyett | October 22, 2009
So with one book coming out and another one just sent off to the agent, even though I’m fairly busy with promotion-related stuff (November is gonna be nuts), my attention immediately turned to DJing and designing my wife’s music website. I mean at around 4 a.m. on Sunday I literally packed up the new novel [...]
steve boyett | October 20, 2009
I finished the massive revision of my next novel over the weekend and sent it off to my agent yesterday. Now maybe I can go back to some kind of normal schedule (one that involves more than three hours’ sleep a day) and actually do some useful things around the house. My wife deserves some [...]
steve boyett | October 15, 2009
Chapter 1 of the Elegy Beach audiobook is now on the Elegy Beach website. But you can listen here (ain’t I swell?):
[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
Download: Elegy Beach Audiobook – Chapter One
I think narrator JD Jackson did an amazing job, and I can’t wait to hear the whole thing (what you think I’ve [...]
steve boyett | October 12, 2009
This came in today. It’s the final publication hardcover of Elegy Beach.
It’s funny, I’ve been Mister Matter-of-Fact ever since my agent sold the book almost exactly a year ago. I’ve been happy, grateful, anxious, appreciative, responsible, cooperative, parental, all kinds of emotions. Not to mention busy as hell.
What I haven’t been is hugely excited. [...]
steve boyett | October 12, 2009
[This is a very revised version of a post I made on my forum earlier today]
Samuel R. Delany’s DHALGREN remains my favorite novel, though I no longer think it’s the best novel I’ve read (it’s still up there, though). I must have read it 10 or 12 times. It came out when I was in [...]
steve boyett | October 9, 2009
Chapter 13 of ELEGY BEACH is now available on elegybeach.com. You can read it directly on the website or as a downloadable PDF.
This chapter begins a gradual change in the novel’s writing style as well as an increasingly serious tone to the book itself. Despite being a lengthy chapter that occurs well on [...]
steve boyett | October 8, 2009
I can’t write a story or novel unless I have a title. In fact I have a folder with a list of titles that have come to me (“The Placebo Plague” — c’mon, don’t you want to know what that’s about? I do). There’s nothing mysterious about it. In many ways the title is simply [...]
steve boyett | October 4, 2009
I’m trying to post consistently but lately it’s been difficult because my sleep schedule is completely wacked. I’m cranking away to finish revising my next novel to get it out to my agent by November. To do that I’m working at night, going to bed around 5 or 6 a.m., and waking up in the [...]
