Jun 19 2007
My series, the Jack Meter Case Files, is featured during the Summer Mystery Reading Challenge at Reviewed by Liz. Thanks, Liz, for a great write-up!
dynastic_queen has posted an interview with me on her LJ blog. She’s starting a new feature, LJ Writers’ Block, where she’ll interview authors. I was honored to be her first victim… ah, I mean interviewee. Thanks, Stephe!
Jun 07 2007
From Locus Online:
| HARDCOVERS | Months on list |
Last month |
|
| 1) | Shadowplay, Tad Williams (DAW) | 1 | - |
| 2) | Command Decision, Elizabeth Moon (Ballantine Del Rey) | 2 | 5 |
| 3) | For a Few Demons More, Kim Harrison (Eos) | 1 | - |
| 4) | Un Lun Dun, China Miéville (Ballantine Del Rey) | 2 | 3 |
| 5) | Ysabel, Guy Gavriel Kay (Roc) | 3 | 1 |
| 6) | Sixty Days and Counting, Kim Stanley Robinson (Bantam Spectra) | 1 | - |
| 7) | Heart-Shaped Box, Joe Hill (Morrow) | 2 | 8 |
| 8 ) | The Terror, Dan Simmons (Little Brown) | 3 | 6 |
| 9) | Deliverer, C. J. Cherryh (DAW) | 2 | 4 |
| 10) | Belladonna, Anne Bishop (Roc) | 1 | - |
| PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | The Scent of Shadow, Vicki Pettersson (Avon) | 1 | - |
| 2) | Proven Guilty, Jim Butcher (Roc) | 2 | 1 |
| 3) | Storm Front, Jim Butcher (Roc) | 2 | 6 |
| 4) | Blood Bound, Patricia Briggs (Ace) | 3 | 2 |
| 5) | The Younger Gods, David Eddings & Leigh Eddings (Warner) | 1 | - |
| 6) | Moonshine, Rob Thurman (Roc) | 1 | - |
| 7) | Watch on the Rhine, John Ringo & Tom Kratman (Baen) | 1 | - |
| 8 ) | Engaging the Enemy, Elizabeth Moon (Ballantine Del Rey) | 2 | 5 |
| 9) | Regeneration, Julie E. Czerneda (DAW) | 1 | - |
| 10) | Kitty Takes a Holiday, Carrie Vaughn (Warner) | 1 | - |
| 11) | Old Man’s War, John Scalzi (Tor) | 3 | 3 |
| 12) | Tempting Evil, Keri Arthur (Dell Spectra) | 1 | - |
| TRADE PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | Day Watch, Sergei Lukyanenko (Hyperion/Miramax) | 2 | 4 |
| 2) | Overclocked, Cory Doctorow (Thunder’s Mouth Press) | 1 | - |
| 3) | X-Rated Bloodsuckers, Mario Acevedo (Rayo) | 1 | - |
| 4) | Wicked, Gregory Maguire (HarperCollins) | 16 | 2 |
| 5) | The Alchemist’s Apprentice, Dave Duncan (Ace) | 1 | - |
May 11 2007
Beautiful, beautiful fractal art in these entries for the ICM 2006 Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest.
This is truly where mathematics meet art. I could conceive listening to Bach while looking at these fractals. They say that Bach’s music also has a mathematical structure. Oddly, they often look to me like what our universe should look like. I guess they appeal to that speculative fiction heart of mine.
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Apr 30 2007
Alternate Realities: there is more than one way to see the truth…
I have started a social network for readers and writers who love speculative fiction in all its guises to discuss their favorite books and exchange ideas on what SF is all about today.
This is not a place to promote your own book, although there is plenty of room to do so in your own profile page. Rather, I’d like this to be a community where speculative fiction, in all its guises, is talked about.
You can click here to join Alternate Realities
About Alternate Realities
A place for readers and writers of alternate reality, speculative fiction, weird fiction, sf mixed genres, and fantasy to meet and discuss the books they love.
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Apr 14 2007
Thanks to Verna Wilder who hosted my last stop on the Virtual Book Tour. If you haven’t had a chance to read my take on the experience of putting together a book tour, make sure to go to Verna’s blog entry.
From 7:30pm EST (11:30pm GMT) on 15 April to 8am EST (12pm GMT) on 16 April, I’ll be in the chatroom on my Virtual Book Launch site (http://mdbenoit.com/synergy) to chat with visitors.
When you visit the Virtual Book Launch site, you can learn about the book, watch a video about it, enter a contest for signed copies of Synergy, etc., but I’ll be there all night of Sunday to chat with visitors. I chose the night so that people from Hawaii to Eastern Europe could have an opportunity to chat with me either in the afternoon or evening, or even early morning. Since it’s a virtual book tour, and that I have visitors on my blog from every country imaginable, I wanted to try it this way.
So, please come visit, chat, enter the contests, watch the video. I’m hoping it’ll be fun.
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