Archives for May 2011

NEWS – Contest Complete: Win BUFFALITO DESTINY

Enter now to win an audiobook of Buffalito Destiny! Entries must be received by June 22nd.

AISFP 121 – Indiana Jim

Author and podcaster “Indiana” Jim Perry joins us to discuss his first published novella, FIREFIGHT AT OVERWATCH COMMAND, the first of three novellas set in the popular card trading game WARS.

NEWS – Data Points for Predicting the Future of Publishing

David Farland presents an essay on the future of publishing and what readers and authors might expect.

NEWS – Pyr Goes YA

One of our favorite imprints, Pyr Books, announces their new venture into YA literature with three introductory titles.

NEWS – Part Three: The Take-Away

Howard Andrew Jones share thoughts on writing and what he learned through the publication process of his first novel.

Writers of the Future Awards

2011 Writers of the Future

AISFP 120 – Ian Tregillis

Ian Tregillis, author of Bitter Seeds, joins us to discuss superheroes in fiction, why, as a working physicist, he’s not writing science fiction, how he came to be in George R.R. Martin’s “Wild Cards” writing collective and the reasons for the delay in book two of the Milkweed Triptych trilogy.

REVIEW – Fuzzy Nation, by John Scalzi

I’m fairly confident when I say that fans of the original will be happy with Fuzzy Nation. It is a faithful adaptation and updating, written with the humor and style we’ve come to expect from Scalzi and a touch of Piper