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Back in September, I got a piece of fanmail.

By itself, this isn't that strange. A lot of folks contact me using the form on my website. A lot. While there are too many for me to reply to personally these days, I do read them all.

One thing I've learned by reading these messages is that a lot of different people read my book. Subconsciously, I always expect my readers to be like me. That's to say I expect them to be youngish college ...

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Time for another interview folks, this one with Brent Weeks author of the Night Angel Trilogy.

Heya Brent. Let's say you're at a party and you meet someone you wanted to impress. What sort of things about your writing career would you casually drop into the conversation to prove that you're awesome?

Oh, I'd definitely drop the NY Times bestselling author bit, though with a self-deprecatory asterisk.

Yeah. That carries a ridiculous amount of weight. A couple months a...

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Here's some more books, folks. And as you can see, we've been saving some of the best for last.

Also, in the interest of complete honesty, I'm over-tired and over-caffeinated right now. This makes me punchy, which means I probably shouldn't be doing anything delicate like writing book descriptions.

Still, the fundraiser ends on January 15th, which means I really need to get these posted sooner rather than later. So I'm going to apologize in advance for anything biza...

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Let's deal with the simpler auction first, shall we?

An ARC of The Adventures of the Princess and Mr. Whiffle: The Thing Beneath the Bed by Patrick Rothfuss and Nathan Taylor. Signed by the Author.

(I think of it as Coraline meets Calvin and Hobbes.)

I've already talked about the Princess book over on this blog. If you'd like more details on it,you can head over there.

Simply said, if you win this auction, you can get an Advance Reading Copy of...

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Those of you who have been following the fundraiser closely will know that I've been debating what to do with a few of the books that were donated.

Specifically, I've been wondering what to do with two very lovely, very collectible books given to us by Neil Gaiman and Brandon Sanderson.

After reading the hundred plus suggestions that were made on the blog and doing a lot of thinking, I've decided *not* to auction these books off. I'm going to enter them into the...

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Nnedi Okorafor was one of the very first writers I met when I was starting my publishing career. We both won places in Volume 18 of Writers of the Future back in 2002, and we met out at the workshop in LA.

I think I even have a picture of us back then at the award Ceremony. Let me see if I can find it....

(Awww.... Look at us. We're cute as fluffy puppies...)

Nnedi's a dynamo, and way tougher than I am. After I got my master's degree, I left academia behind me, shaki...

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Nnedi Okorafor was one of the very first writers I met when I was starting my publishing career. We both won places in Volume 18 of Writers of the Future back in 2002, and we met out at the workshop in LA.

I think I even have a picture of us back then at the award Ceremony. Let me see if I can find it....

(Awww.... Look at us. We're cute as fluffy puppies...)

Nnedi's a dynamo, and way tougher than I am. After I got my master's degree, I left academia behind me, shaki...

This is a Worldbuilders blog.





Nnedi Okorufor was one of the very first writers I met when I was starting my publishing career. We both won places in Volume 18 of Writers of the Future back in 2002, and we met out at the workshop in LA.

I think I even have a picture of us back then at the award Ceremony. Let me see if I can find it....

(Awww.... Look at us. We're cute as fluffy puppies...)

Nnedi's a dynamo, and way tougher than I am. After I got my master's degree, I left academia behind me, shaki...

This is a Worldbuilders blog.




Third time's a charm folks. Here's the third and final blog full of books from DAW. We've got stuff from some big-name authors. Both ARCs and some hardcover sets.

Share and Enjoy.

An ARC of The War of the Flowers by Tad Williams.
From Publishers Weekly, "Travel into another dimension is a popular fantasy ploy, but rarely accomplished with such humor, terror and even logic as in this stand-alone by bestseller Williams."

An ARC of Crown of Shadows by C.S. Friedman.
"Trul...

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Okay folks, time for the rest of the DAW books. This blog has mostly ARCs. (Advance reading copies)

ARCs are cool because sometimes they're different from the original published book, and quite frequently they're "Uncorrected" which means that you can find typos in them. Remember, nothing makes you feel more superior than catching an author using "it's" when it should be "its."

An ARC of Lady of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley.
From Kirkus Reviews, "This smoky mix of...