And it’s another weekend. This morning Garth Nix, bestselling author of the ‘Keys to the Kingdom’ and ‘Old Kingdom’ series, among many wonderful novels, joined Gary and I in the pod to discuss what ‘young adult’ means, the current troubles with bookselling and book publishing, ebooks, his forthcoming novels Troubletwisters (with Sean Williams) and A Confusion of Princes and lots more stuff in a special ‘Pink Drinks’ edition of The Coode Street Podcast. Enjoy!
It’s a podcasting Sunday morning. I’ve been awake for a little while, and shortly I’ll do the breakfast thing before firing up Skype and connecting with Gary and today’s special guest. I think we’ll be talking about the state of book publishing/book selling, entry books for science fiction readers, and some other cool things, but I don’t really know. Gary and I determinedly keep it casual, so mostly we’ll likely just chat.
Today will very much be a work day. If the timing’s right I’ll go swimming with the girls, but then I need to get on with taxes, editing and other stuff. I have a story ms. that popped through my mail to read, proposals to turn around, and general prep. Busy, busy. We did have a lovely visit from Robin and Toula last night, and that gave the weekend some shine. Much better than sitting around watching TV.
I should likely report in on what I’ve been reading, but that continues to be all over the place. I’m going back and forth between Garth Nix & Sean Williams’ Troubletwisters and Michael Swanwick’s Dancing with Bears, two very different novels that I’m enjoying for very different reasons, while alternately being engaged and annoyed by a bunch of anthologies. Busy times!
Episode 38: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!
That’s better! Technical difficulties behind us, Gary and a slightly hungover I jumped into the pod to discuss Carol Emshwiller, the right time to publish a book, optimistic SF, the death of SF and all sorts of other stuff. We hope you enjoy it, as always!
Eclipse Four off to press…
Eclipse Four, my 42nd book (possibly making it the answer to life, the universe and everything) has gone to press and will be out in May of this year. Â Many thanks to everyone at Night Shade and to all of the contributors. I think this one turned out well.
Oh, I should add, if you are a reviewer, blogger or such drop your name into comments and I’ll see if we can arrange a copy for you.
Episode 37: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!
We had problems. That’s why the podcast is late. Â It was Saturday morning. The sun was up in Perth, and we were set to record (well, it was snowing in Garyland, but you know what I mean). We got to discussing all sorts of things like recommended reading lists and such, then something at Gary’s end went pffft! We resumed on a landline, but the quality does drop out somewhat about half way through. Our sincere apologies for that. We hope it will all be back to normal for #38 next week. Â In the meantime, enjoy!