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Chip Kidd on Book Design

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe via Twitter. Thanks for visiting!If you’re in publishing or an avid reader then it’s likely you’ve come across the name Chip Kidd one way or another. Kidd is currently an associate art director for Knopf and has been for the [...]

What Can We Expect From Baen Books in the Future?

While attending Worldcon in Montreal I had the fortunate pleasure of attending Baen Books publisher’s presentation. Similarly, prior to the event I had a writer’s workshop with one of their authors, Mark L. Van Name, who I can’t help but thank for his insightful criticism from the nearly finished novel. Nevertheless, the following is a [...]

What can we expect from Tor Books this season?

While at Worldcon in Montreal I had the opportunity to go to the publisher’s presentation for Tor Books with all of their editors (including Patrick Nielsen Hayden, David G. Hartwell, and Tom Doherty) present and I can honestly say that if Tor delivers on the goods this year in terms of their books we can [...]

Why I love and hate Amazon

Putting everything that happened with AmazonFail aside for a second, I truly love the website Amazon because it does a fantastic job of commercializing products, not just in a marketing sense but also in terms of informing the public of products should they decide on purchasing a specific item. In addition, I’m able to easily [...]

Tor.com Launches New Online Bookstore

Tor.com, a blog for news and discussion on “science fiction and fantasy books and other related topics,” expands its digital reach this June 17th with the launch of a new online bookstore.

The Tor Store opens with a selection of titles that span a wide range of publishers. The only requirement for books to appear in [...]

2009 Chesley Award Nominations Announced

The nominees for the 2009 Chesley Award were recently announced and the list is impressive. For those unaware of this award, the Chelseys are given for excellence in science fiction and fantasy art or illustration. The award began in 1985 and is run by the Association for Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists (ASFA). The award [...]

Book Review: ‘Wake’ by Robert J. Sawyer

Robert J. Sawyer rarely writes trilogies. He’s done it twice before in his career (the first in the early 90s with his Quintaglio Ascension Trilogy and the second in the early part of this decade with his Neanderthal Parallax Trilogy, which won him a Hugo Award for Homonids in 2003). So you can understand my [...]

5 Movies About Writers that Inspire Me to Write

As Good As It Gets

If you haven’t seen As Good As It Gets yet you are depriving yourself of one of the greatest comedies in recent cinematic history. Not only is the script flawless and is an example of fantastic screenwriting with absolutely no filler, but it’s also side splittingly funny. The film revolves around [...]

2009 Campbell Award Finalists Announced

I’m going to be completely honest with you here. I like writing awards posts. They’re easy, short, and you can’t be sued since much of the information is already public knowledge anyway. But one of the things I do like (what many don’t know in fact) is unlike the Hugos, Nebulas, and basically every other [...]

2009 British Fantasy Award Finalists

Finalists for the 2009 British Fantasy Awards have been announced. A special thanks to Locus Online for providing me with the list.

Best Novel (The August Derleth Fantasy Award)
• Memoirs of a Master Forger, William Heaney/Graham Joyce (Gollancz)
• Midnight Man, Simon Clark (Severn House)
• Rain Dogs, Gary McMahon (Humdrumming)
• The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman (Bloomsbury)
• The Victoria Vanishes, Christopher Fowler (Little, [...]