Hugo-Award-winning (and currently Hugo nominated) fanzine StarShipSofa has created an audio version of "That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made." It's read by Mike Allen, editor and publisher of Mythic Delirium and an award-winning poet and author. Because I'm at work, I've only been able to listen to a bit of it so far, but Mike's got a great reading voice. ... read more »
You may have noticed the widget that doesn't quite fit in my right sidebar. It's for my friend, comic-book writer Jake Black, who's holding a fundraiser to help get out from under the mountain of debt due to his cancer treatment. He's a third of the way to his goal, and to help a bit, I've offered a couple of... read more »
Over at Sideshow Freaks, the InterGalactic Medicine Show blog, you can find my explanation of how I came to write "Into the West." Warning: mild spoilers for the story.
The bad news is that I am going to stop selling the ebook of Unforgettable and serializing it on my site. When I started this, I said it was an experiment in e-publishing. And I've learned quite a few things from it, but there have been some unexpected developments that called into question one of my premises, so I've decided... read more »
Rejiggering the Thingamajig and Other Stories by Eric James Stone now has its own pages at Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble.
My short story "Into the West" is now available at InterGalactic Medicine Show. Through pure coincidence, this issue ended up being a remarkable one. Four out of the five short fiction pieces were written by authors who also had stories in Writers of the Future, Vol. XXI: Lon Prater, Mike Rimar, Scott M. Roberts, and me. We checked with the... read more »
There's been a little buzz in the blogosphere about the complete lack of ethnic diversity among the Nebula Award Winners this year. But as a matter of fact, one of the five Nebula winners is Hispanic -- as far as I can tell, I am the first Hispanic to win a Nebula. ("As far as I can tell" is an... read more »
I went to the Utah Book Festival on Saturday on BYU campus, and, just to get this information out of the way up front in order to prevent speculation, the festival did not get attacked by a giant lobster. I was not a presenter at the festival, but I had a great time hanging out with old friends like Kevin... read more »
The Hugo Awards are bestowed by the members of the World Science Fiction Convention (a.k.a. WorldCon) to honor the best in science fiction and fantasy. And who are the members of WorldCon? Anyone who buys a membership. That means you can become a member and vote for the Hugo Award winners. There are two main levels of membership: Attending and... read more »
I just realized I never blogged about the Provo Daily Herald story about me and my Nebula and Hugo nominations. The paper has a followup story today about the Nebula Award win.
