BOUNDARY to be in Science Fiction Book Club!

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Eric and I have been notified that Boundary will be in the Science Fiction Book Club magazine as a featured item. This weekend I'll be writing a draft of the blurb which will go with the book. This is fun -- my first hardcover and my first SFBC appearance!

In other exciting writing news, I just received my first "Advance Reader's Copy" -- of Boundary, naturally. ARCs are produced generally as trade paperbacks; this looks SO COOL!

Comments

Re: a little late

[seawasp]

Thanks very much!

Well, if you read forward -- WAY forward -- in the journal, you'd know you have excellent timing.

After a long period of waiting, Threshold, the sequel to Boundary, will be published in June 2010. I'll be starting work on Portal, which follows Threshold.

My next solo novel, Grand Central Arena, will be released April 27th, 2010.

Re: a little late

[fairhopeman.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the prompt response. I await "Threshold" with bated breath. Good luck on all your other endeavors.
Alan

(BTW, I purchased "Boundary" through SFBC. I have been a member almost since their inception and generally speaking they offer quality reading. Their trend toward fantasy is disheartening as I am hardcore SF; I hope you continue your association with them as I will continue reading your work.)

Re: a little late

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It's not *quite* that simple with regard to the SFBC. As you obviously know, the SFBC doesn't offer every science-fiction and fantasy novel out there; they pick and choose. And so it's up to them which books they offer. They have a number of readers to whom they send candidate novels and who then offer their recommendations. I of course would love to have them continue to offer any book I write as a selection, but it's their call, not mine.

Insofar as my writing, I cover the gamut; Grand Central Arena is a sort of modern version of Golden Age space opera, my salute to Doc Smith and all of the other Gold-to-Silver Age authors who influenced me as a kid. Boundary and Threshold are hard SF (or, at least, as hard SF as I can handle writing). Digital Knight is urban fantasy. I just completed two more novels I'll be submitting, both of which are fantasy (although of different types).

Unfortunately, while there are hardcore science fiction fans still out there, they're outnumbered by more than 10:1 by fantasy fans, and the SFBC would be economically stupid not to make sure they offered a lot to the fantasy side (these days, "SF" is often used to mean "Speculative Fiction" which includes science fiction, fantasy, and supernatural horror).

Thanks for reading!