Interview Transcript: Kevin J. Anderson joins Mike and Mike to talk about his newest novel, The Dark Between the Stars. It’s the first of his new series, “Saga of Shadows”, which takes place 20 years after the events of his “Saga of the Seven Suns” series, with reviewers calling it “Game of Thrones, with planets”.
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Cover to Cover #464: Understanding Character Growth
Writing Discussion: The talk then turns towards character growth, and the small things that you can add to the story to show how your characters can grow and change over time, taking into account how emotional impact can touch both character and reader.
Cover to Cover #462: Deconstructing the Story
Mike S points out that the real kidney punch to B&N was done by Apple a few weeks ago with their ebook textbook deals, and the guys talk about how these deals could change how teachers teach and how people learn.
Cover to Cover #458: Prepping and Planning A Story
Listener Questions: Tad from Mesa is one of the few who has an old edition of Mistress of Dragons and he’s interested to see how the new version evolves, really enjoyed Stackpole’s At the Queen’s Command, and wants to know if there’s an update on the Talion Revenant sequel ebook challenge.
Cover to Cover #452: Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris
Interview Transcript: This week, Mike and Mike chat with Tee Morris and Pip Ballantine about their new collaborative novel, Phoenix Rising: A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences Novel, sort of a steampunk flavored adventure in the fashion of “The Avengers” or “The X-Files”.
Cover to Cover #448: Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
Interview: Kevin J. Anderson and Brian Herbert join us this week in the middle of their book tour to talk about Hellhole, their most recent collaboration and the first in a trilogy set in a new original universe.
They talk about their collaborative process, the future of the Dune series, listening to (or not listening to) critics, and why not to buy Christmas presents before December 21, 2012.
Cover to Cover #417A: Redstone Science Fiction
Interview: This week, Mike M and Summer chat with Michael Ray and Paul Clemmons about their new SF magazine, Redstone Science Fiction.
Redstone Science Fiction is an online market paying SFWA pro rates, focused on obtaining and presenting quality science fiction, as well as discussing the science and the technology with professionals working in those fields.
Cover to Cover #410A: Lou Anders
Interview: Lou Anders, Editorial Director for Pyr, joins us to talk about Pyr SF’s ventures into electronic publishing.
Lou talks about how the iPad has shifted his reading preferences recently, and despite his deep and continuing love for physical books themselves, he can see where his future book buying may go the way his music buying went after iTunes became more widely used.
Cover to Cover #353A: Tim Holman, Orbit Books
Interview: Mike and Mike talk with Tim Holman, VP and Publishing Director of Orbit Books, about the $1 e-book promotion that Orbit is running, and also toss around many ideas about the potential place of ebooks in the future grander scheme of publishing.
Cover to Cover #333A: Tor.com
Interview: This week, Mike and Mike talk with Pablo Defendini and Irene Gallo, two of the producers behind the new Tor.com Scifi Community about how the new project came to be, and how this site is far more than just a marketing tool for Tor Books… it truly is a cross-publisher community of authors and artists, featuring original written and audio fiction, editor and author blogs, and much, much more.
Pyr Honored with Four Major Award Nominations
Prometheus Books and Pyr congratulate Lou Anders, Ian McDonald, Joe Abercrombie and David Louis Edelman for their outstanding work. We are proud to be associated with such talent and quality.
Cover to Cover #266: John Klima
Interview: Michael, Summer, and Michael chat with John Klima, editor of the short story collection Logorrhea, a bold play on storycrafting where he sent a list of Scripps Spelling Bee winning words to a select list of authors and asked them to write a story based on and inspired by the word they picked in addition to incorporating the word into the story.
Print Book Reviews Harder to Find?
Interesting. I only just today saw this Editor and Publisher article: AP to Discontinue Book Review Package By Dave Astor Published: February 02, 2007 NEW YORK — The Associated Press is ending its book review package. “This is a sad turn of events for book reviews. AP reviews, even small, ran far and wide, and […]
Cover to Cover #111: Marcos Donnelly / Robert J. Sawyer
Marcos Donnelly
Marcos has just released his new novel, Letters from the Flesh, an interesting alternate past/present (yes, that’s an odd way to say it…) science fiction novel released under the new imprint, Robert J. Sawyer Books.
Robert J. Sawyer
Speaking of Robert J. Sawyer Books, Rob himself joins us to talk about his new imprint, Red Deer Press.
Cover to Cover #31: Danielle Ackley-McPhail
Interview: Danielle Ackley-McPhail wrote the book Yesterday’s Dreams, a fantasy book dealing with the things we acquire and how as those things depart from us, they take our impressions with them as well.
The interview gave some great insight to a first time author, and tells her almost unbelievable tale of getting published.
