I’m speaking at When Words Collide, a Calgary-based convention for fiction writers, Saturday, August 11 at 2PM. If you’re in Calgary, I hope you’ll come out and see my presentation, which talks about how computers are increasingly augmenting and may eventually compete with writers themselves.
It’s a thought-provoking presentation, which you can download here.
Copies of my novel ONE OF US will be available in the dealer’s room and at the author signing at 8PM Saturday night.
I was happy to be invited to contribute to author John Scalzi’s Big Ideas blog, in which authors describe the big idea behind their works. For ONE OF US, I was able to share the nonfiction idea behind the novel, which started as a misunderstood monster story and became a much more ambitious examination of prejudice.
I hope you’ll check it out here.
Danielle at Books, Vertigo & Tea recently interviewed me about ONE OF US. I really enjoyed the interview as she dug deep about decisions I made in writing the book.
I hope you’ll check it out here and have a great day.
Hachette Book Group, whose Orbit brand is releasing my dark fantasy novel ONE OF US July 18, recently interviewed me for the company’s newsletter. In the interview, I talk about the novel, influences, writing methods, and advice for new writers.
Check it out here!
At the When Words Collide conference in Calgary earlier this month, I gave an hour-long talk about the important of character arcs, how they relate to emotional and plot arcs, and how to build one.
Download it here!
I’m very excited to announce Orbit will publish my next novel, ONE OF US.
ONE OF US is a Southern Gothic literary dark fantasy. In the 1970s, a disease produces a generation of monsters that 14 years later are living in rundown orphanages in the rural South. As the plague generation grows up poor and oppressed, its children begin to develop extraordinary abilities that allow them to rebel and claim their birthright. The novel delves into themes of prejudice, generational conflict, and what makes a monster a monster. Written in the Southern Gothic style, it features elements such as complex characters, rural decay, and the grotesque. Picture TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD with monsters.
Publishing about 60 titles each year, Orbit U.S. is the sci-fi/fantasy imprint at Hachette Book Group U.S.A., with authors including M.R. Carey, Joe Abercrombie and Iain M. Banks. Plans for ONE OF US are still preliminary, but the intent right now is to publish it in hardcover, likely in 2018, and then trade paperback. It’s the biggest deal I’ve ever gotten for a published work, and I couldn’t be happier to work with a quality company like Orbit.