tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121585362024-03-17T23:03:33.485-04:00David Anthony DurhamAward winning author of <em><strong>The Other Lands</strong></em>,<em><strong>Acacia</strong></em>, <em><strong>Pride of Carthage</strong></em>, <em><strong>Walk Through Darkness</strong></em>, and <em><strong>Gabriel's Story</strong></em>.David Anthony Durhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13885922955551669016noreply@blogger.comBlogger1158125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12158536.post-61557104197655232112021-01-18T14:15:00.002-05:002021-01-18T14:15:55.405-05:00The Shadow Prince Cover Reveal!<p> <span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa fgxwclzu a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto">So happy to release the cover for my forthcoming middle grade fantasy <i>The Shadow Prince</i>! Artwork by the amazing Eric Wilkerson. Pub date Sept 2021!<br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4ZXWKUfQAo5MvQPpauZrz-FcLHg7jZy18BhLqjlWbbjzRYeuqnnjRzKSGrHp54Y8spqCx0cUjydhrzgsBwqEPjU7OrGzWLtik1hMVCV9zDNh22dNVqA0HF-hOdRG1s0QZ-TkN/s2048/full+res+cover+art+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1416" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4ZXWKUfQAo5MvQPpauZrz-FcLHg7jZy18BhLqjlWbbjzRYeuqnnjRzKSGrHp54Y8spqCx0cUjydhrzgsBwqEPjU7OrGzWLtik1hMVCV9zDNh22dNVqA0HF-hOdRG1s0QZ-TkN/w276-h400/full+res+cover+art+1.jpg" width="276" /></a></div><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa fgxwclzu a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"> Here's the description:</span><p></p><div><div class="" dir="auto"><div class="ecm0bbzt hv4rvrfc ihqw7lf3 dati1w0a" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id="jsc_c_21"><div class="j83agx80 cbu4d94t ew0dbk1b irj2b8pg"><div class="qzhwtbm6 knvmm38d"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa fgxwclzu a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">FIVE DEADLY TESTS, ONLY ONE SHADOW PRINCE</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Growing up as an orphan in a remote village in the Egyptian desert, Ash's life is pretty ordinary--sort of. He spends most of his time working in irrigation canals and avoiding bullies, but he is also being secretly trained by his mentor Yazen "for some great purpose." Yazen has never said what that is, until now: the night before Ash's twelfth birthday. According to Yazen, Ash was born on the same day as Prince Khufu, which makes him eligible to compete to be the prince's shadow, a lifelong confidante and bodyguard. Ash doesn't really believe Yazen, but when a floating royal barge, driven by solar-powered sails, arrives to take Ash and his mentor to the bustling, magical, and solar-powered capital, things get real.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">What awaits Ash is deadly--five days of dangerous tests, each overseen by a different Egyptian god. Unfortunately, they've been told, not all will survive. On top of the tests, Ash is up against Set, the devious god of chaos, secretly working toward the candidates' demise. If they fail, a different prince will inherit the throne, one Set can manipulate for his evil schemes. Ash finds two friends willing to fight by his side, but he's been warned. Some candidates lie, cheat, and even try to harm others to win. Can Ash and his friends do what it takes to save the kingdom? And will there be anyone left to become the Shadow Prince?</div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div><p><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa fgxwclzu a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"> </span></p><p><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa fgxwclzu a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"><br /> </span></p>David Anthony Durhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13885922955551669016noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12158536.post-25196094559574545882019-12-13T23:07:00.000-05:002019-12-13T23:07:01.837-05:0010 Best?<a href="https://www.unr.edu//web-team/uploads/facebook-open-graph.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="https://www.unr.edu//web-team/uploads/facebook-open-graph.jpg" border="0" height="168" src="https://www.unr.edu//web-team/uploads/facebook-open-graph.jpg" width="320" /></a>Very pleased to see that the College Gazette recently picked my uni -
University of Nevada, Reno - as one of the nation's <a href="https://collegegazette.com/the-10-best-hidden-gem-public-universities-in-the-us/3/?fbclid=IwAR1-uhbbvGU_QErsutuuxbhqlfAy2fsY59DnNF_jk-CEMlFNawFaecjmgr8" target="_blank">10 best hidden gem universities</a>. No surprise to me, but it's nice to get that recognition,
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David Anthony Durhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13885922955551669016noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12158536.post-85257365986185748862019-10-23T14:06:00.000-04:002019-10-23T14:06:03.301-04:00Interview<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia0u19cp-UcDODkTxa-uEisrsXTS1DPhvBPPqLyWw1Eo7kKsMBuLwcWCUiHVWDv1ve-7kTv10JUnJFydf5plETQvZ7lXZAvbpJl04Ht4n-i5sPUYL55_9glLLZ6jkxtNnyMWGw/s1600/123b-5956-4a60-b892-5c13ee3c0407.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia0u19cp-UcDODkTxa-uEisrsXTS1DPhvBPPqLyWw1Eo7kKsMBuLwcWCUiHVWDv1ve-7kTv10JUnJFydf5plETQvZ7lXZAvbpJl04Ht4n-i5sPUYL55_9glLLZ6jkxtNnyMWGw/s1600/123b-5956-4a60-b892-5c13ee3c0407.jpg" /></a><span data-offset-key="58p1h-0-0"><span data-text="true">Here's a <a href="https://www.mixcloud.com/KWNK/wild-cards-and-diversity-interview-nevada-humanities-literary-crawl-2019/?fbclid=IwAR3WYuHyGMv64PLGVLsd62JPij0VcKonhyUqSI1eHx9pUn6o--GYk5tzc4g" target="_blank">link to interview Carrie Vaughn and I did during last month's Nevada Humanities Literary Crawl</a>. </span></span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="58p1h-0-0"><span data-text="true">Thanks to Annie Saunders and <a href="https://kwnkradio.org/" target="_blank">KWNK</a>! And thanks to <a href="https://www.sundancebookstore.com/" target="_blank">Sundance Books</a> for providing us a quite room to speak in!</span></span>David Anthony Durhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13885922955551669016noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12158536.post-66859156782564459762019-09-20T12:32:00.001-04:002019-09-20T12:32:59.395-04:00Write With Me in Brazil Next Summer!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqSi3OLnEKRU5JFWO4ApJhntgCX4hGV5_fB4QOIR1u8uosx6PzdNSAu-8F3LPSpVtfLsiLucQ-R8lAzE7QkLC1VXAMWlEDe3jvhQUJmwrYV6SRdGMDFKRvQP3VDOkSkSeh28w0/s1600/USAC+Flier.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1246" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqSi3OLnEKRU5JFWO4ApJhntgCX4hGV5_fB4QOIR1u8uosx6PzdNSAu-8F3LPSpVtfLsiLucQ-R8lAzE7QkLC1VXAMWlEDe3jvhQUJmwrYV6SRdGMDFKRvQP3VDOkSkSeh28w0/s320/USAC+Flier.jpg" width="249" /></a>So here's my first announcement of a very cool thing! I'm going to be teaching a fiction writing course this summer in Brazil! At the seaside city of Florianópolis. We'll be reading Brazilian writers (in English), but writing whatever fiction students want to - including SFF if they're so inclined. This is an undergrad college deal, for credit. USAC is based at the University of Nevada, Reno, but enrollment in this program is available to college students anywhere in the country.<br />
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Please spread the word! Five weeks of hanging out in a lovely city, writing, reading, eating, drinking, and - if you're up for it - surfing! (Yes, they offer surfing for credit!)<br />
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It's going be a blast!
Questions about it? Email me at ddurham@unr.edu.
David Anthony Durhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13885922955551669016noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12158536.post-74190993596310896882019-09-05T12:45:00.002-04:002019-09-05T12:45:28.704-04:00Wild Cards Interview<span data-offset-key="25a2s-0-0"><span data-text="true">Hey, an interview I did, now up at <a href="https://www.wildcardsworld.com/" target="_blank"><b>Wild Cards World</b></a>! Among other things, I talk about whitewater rafting and kayaking. Fun fact: I'm going whitewater rafting and kayaking this weekend in California! </span></span><br />
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included - at his Jean Cocteau Cinema. They have copies of my Spartacus
novel <i>The Risen</i> as well as three of the Wild Cards books I've
contributed to. All of those have also been signed by George and any
other authors who've visited the Cinema (and signed books they wrote or
contributed to, I mean). There's a lot to choose from across many
genres. Go check it out. Signed books make great presents!David Anthony Durhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13885922955551669016noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12158536.post-9595655009861215432019-05-24T20:41:00.001-04:002019-05-24T20:41:29.207-04:00Die Gladiatoren Von<span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">This showed up in the mail today, sent from GRRM. I wasn't sure what it was, but I could tell it was in German.</span><br />
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It's the super special signed edition of UNBOUND, edited by Shawn Speakman. I'm in it, and the book is lovely. Yay! Look, signatures!</span><br />
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<br />David Anthony Durhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13885922955551669016noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12158536.post-39574090930908835772019-02-12T13:59:00.005-05:002019-02-12T13:59:57.449-05:00Video<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: , , "blinkmacsystemfont" , ".sfnstext-regular" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I make a brief appearance <a href="http://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/2019/02/06/sharing-a-world/" target="_blank">on a video posted at GRRM's "Not a Blog."</a> It's from short interviews we did when we gathered in fall of 2017 for a reunion/get together. I'm on at 1:06.</span><br />
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<br />David Anthony Durhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13885922955551669016noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12158536.post-8758130419413452212019-02-05T13:13:00.000-05:002019-02-05T13:13:08.139-05:00Black History LunchThis is fun. <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/black-history-lunch-one-writers-rooms-quest-diversify-staff-meals-1182727" target="_blank">The Wild Cards writers room celebrates Black History month.</a><br />
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<br />David Anthony Durhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13885922955551669016noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12158536.post-63351272153594577992019-01-31T13:56:00.000-05:002019-01-31T13:56:20.452-05:00Blog Post<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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There's a new blog post I wrote up at <a href="https://www.wildcardsworld.com/killing-spoiler/" target="_blank">Wild Cards World</a>.<br />
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This one is about doing horrible things to another person's character.David Anthony Durhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13885922955551669016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12158536.post-7708050188023986682018-11-14T12:31:00.001-05:002018-11-14T12:31:30.157-05:00Wild Cards Heading to TV!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3tPd6IoI-OVDGhnWFQjfWnZQKp8Gygqb-8eXsQwoiBJFMmHi8qA_BfRBuV2B_tIsIvwYtUJl5P4u2Z0TM7pzA8aisYNVzdDSC87A3bB2-CTCZa-joG0YpBY6q0UseEcO36Vzz/s1600/Fort+Freak+Final.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1053" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3tPd6IoI-OVDGhnWFQjfWnZQKp8Gygqb-8eXsQwoiBJFMmHi8qA_BfRBuV2B_tIsIvwYtUJl5P4u2Z0TM7pzA8aisYNVzdDSC87A3bB2-CTCZa-joG0YpBY6q0UseEcO36Vzz/s320/Fort+Freak+Final.jpg" width="210" /></a>Here, at long last, is the announcement of a supercool thing I've known was in the works for quite awhile now: <a href="https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/wild-cards-george-rr-martin-hulu-series-1203027787/" target="_blank">Wild Cards series is a go on Hulu!</a><br />
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This is rather exciting. Like, <i>really</i> exciting. Among other things, the first show is going to begin with <b><i>Fort Freak</i></b>, the first book I wrote for!David Anthony Durhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13885922955551669016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12158536.post-78051633530917207532018-05-14T15:42:00.001-04:002018-05-14T15:42:29.939-04:00Award Winners Announced<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_0GoWxfBy9WVeozD4YvcW-4S0P3Wcw8X-onYHyl3x_drQjbvCGe6hADHqbyqMN6EgSBKdpgTIwfqIdOnCz65OB3x4eFqRMguR56-zOxYrr8sb9z5gpa7jm1o7XXT67UfGrwm8/s1600/P6RdbnGv_400x400.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_0GoWxfBy9WVeozD4YvcW-4S0P3Wcw8X-onYHyl3x_drQjbvCGe6hADHqbyqMN6EgSBKdpgTIwfqIdOnCz65OB3x4eFqRMguR56-zOxYrr8sb9z5gpa7jm1o7XXT67UfGrwm8/s320/P6RdbnGv_400x400.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I recently had the honor of judging the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation's College Writing Award in the fiction category. I read some really good stories, and for awhile I wasn't sure what was going to distinguish one as the winner. Then I read a story called "Belly." That decided it. Such a good story, from a writer the world is going to hear more from. I read the stories anonymously, and I've only recently heard who the winners actually are. </span><br />
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Here's something that makes me happy. Next week Saladin Ahmed visits the University of Nevada, Reno! <a href="http://events.unr.edu/event/fiction_reading_by_saladin_ahmed#.Wm-Yj7aZNhB" target="_blank">He'll be here for the week, hanging with students, visiting classes, critiquing grad student work, doing events in the Reno community, and giving a reading on Tuesday, February 6 at 6:00pm to 7:30pm!</a> </div>
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David Anthony Durhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13885922955551669016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12158536.post-12392888640747830732018-01-27T13:40:00.001-05:002018-01-27T13:41:21.759-05:00New CardsTwo new Wild Cards covers. One Eyed Jacks is a reprint from an earlier volume.<br />
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<br />David Anthony Durhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13885922955551669016noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12158536.post-28647486305624311622018-01-23T04:43:00.002-05:002018-01-23T04:45:44.015-05:00ConFusion 2018!I'm just back <a href="http://confusionsf.org/" target="_blank">from my first ConFusion</a>.<br />
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I loved it! Great people. Good hanging out. I mean, really? Me hanging out with <a href="http://allthebirdsinthesky.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Charlie Jane Anders</a> and <a href="http://www.kateelliott.com/" target="_blank">Kate Elliott</a>? Pic taken by John Scalzi <a href="https://whatever.scalzi.com/2018/01/22/confusion-in-black-and-white/" target="_blank">and featured in a post on Whatever?</a> Way too lovely.<br />
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Decent panel schedule too. They worked me! For example:<br />
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Friday 5PM INTERLOCHEN World-building Culture Beyond Aesthetics Many authors take care to ground readers in the aesthetic details of their secondary-world cultures, using clothing, architecture, food, and language to give readers a 'feel' for what a culture is like. Often, these details are drawn from stereotypes of real regions of the world, leaving us with the generic "middle easternness" of Narnia's Calormen, or the "future Chinese empire with no Chinese people" of Joss Whedon's Firefly. Let's talk about how to go beyond aesthetics to build original cultures with their own philosophies, biases, social orders, and worldviews. How can we build distinct cultures in our work without using medieval Europe as the cultureless default against which other societies are compared? What are our favorite fictional cultures, and our favorite stories that use distinct original cultures to add more to their world than appropriated aesthetics? David Anthony Durham, Max Gladstone, Michael R. Underwood, Scott H. Andrews, Shweta Adhyam<br />
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Friday 6PM SAUGATUCK Visions of Positive Masculinity - Moderator From high fantasy adventures to noir mysteries to superheroes and war stories, genre fiction has meticulously catalogued the narrow roles society expects men to occupy: strong, brave, and powerful, but also angry, competitive, emotionally repressed, and misogynistic. What does a character arc look like for the man who has decided not to be the best at performing this toxic vision of masculinity? We've seen many stories about women who struggle and triumph against gender roles. How can writers use social expectations of masculinity to create challenges that their male characters have to overcome to save the day? David Anthony Durham, Jason Sanford, Jim C. Hines, John Chu, Pablo Defendini<br />
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Saturday 10AM MANITOU Immigration and Refuge in Science Fiction - Moderator Travel stories are classics in any genre, but in science fiction stories of travelling to a new home are often about colonization, or about intrepid explorers amongst the (primitive) aliens. Let's talk about the science fiction stories that better reflect the experiences of immigrants and refugees in the real world. Alexandra Manglis, Amal El-Mohtar, David Anthony Durham, John Chu Saturday<br />
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12PM ISLE ROYALE The Ancient 1980s - Moderator When most people think historical fiction, they think of the 16th through 19th centuries. But genre fiction is increasingly taking on the recent past. What's the draw (beyond nostalgia) of the 1980s and 90s as fictional settings? What unique research challenges do they present, and how do writers balance providing familiarity for those who remember the era with background information for those who need context? What are our favorite modern works set in the recent past? Alexandra Manglis, David Anthony Durham, Michael W Lucas, Sara Dobie Bauer, Stephanie Morris<br />
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Saturday 2PM BIG TOP Any Sufficiently Detailed Magic System is Indistinguishable From Science - Moderator The influence of tabletop roleplaying games is widely felt in fantasy. Many stories make a 'science' out of their magic that reflects the carefully-balanced rules of a tabletop sourcebook. What are the trade-offs between creating magic systems with strict rules and leaving magic as a mysterious and unknown force? How do we balance the sense of wonder and magic against the desire to give readers a stable hook from which to suspend their disbelief? What makes a well-defined magic system work in a story, and when are we showing the reader too much of the machinery behind the curtain? Brandon Crilly, Charlie Jane Anders, David Anthony Durham, Kate Elliott, Shweta Adhyam, Jim Butcher<br />
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Saturday 5PM SAINT CLAIR Mass Autographing Session Come meet your favorite authors, artists and musicians and have them sign things! (Please limit your signing requests to 3 items per person.)David Anthony Durhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13885922955551669016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12158536.post-74634213612843089352017-11-28T17:14:00.001-05:002017-11-28T17:14:40.355-05:00La Rebelión<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Here's something I'm happy to see. It's my most recent foreign publication - <i>The Risen</i> in Spanish! </span><br />
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<b>El nuevo libro del autor del <span style="font-style: italic;">best seller</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">El orgullo de Cartago</span>. Una novela soberbia sobre Espartaco, el legendario gladiador, y la revuelta de esclavos que encabezó y a punto estuvo de someter a Roma y sus invencibles legiones.</b></div>
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En esta emocionante novela histórica somos testigos de la rebelión más famosa de la historia desde diversos, y a veces opuestos, puntos de vista, entre ellos el del propio <b>Espartaco</b>, el visionario cautivo y gladiador cuya constancia y carisma convierten la fuga de una prisión en una rebelión multicultural que amenaza a un imperio; el de la profética <b>Astera</b>, cuyo contacto con el mundo de los espíritus y sus augurios guía el desarrollo de la rebelión; el de <b>Nonus</b>, un soldado romano que se mueve a ambos lados del conflicto en un intento, en parte desesperado, de salvar la vida; el de <b>Laelia y Hustus</b>, dos niños pastores incorporados a las tropas de la rebelión de los esclavos, y el de <b>Kaleb</b>, el esclavo al servicio de Craso, el senador romano y comandante que carga con la poco envidiable tarea de aplastar una insurrección de meros esclavos, todo ello en un entorno de violencia, heroísmo y traición.</div>
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Lo que está en juego con la rebelión de Espartaco es nada menos que el futuro del mundo antiguo. Nadie aporta más brío, inteligencia y frescura a la novela sobre la época clásica que David Anthony Durham.</div>
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David Anthony Durhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13885922955551669016noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12158536.post-54342303243701383732017-10-15T13:42:00.000-04:002017-10-15T13:42:45.574-04:00Wild Times<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "sf optimized" , , , "blinkmacsystemfont" , ".sfnstext-regular" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.11999999731779099px;">I'm back home after an awesome Wild Cards reunion in Santa Fe. Highlights include hanging with a bunch of authors, staying at GRRM's guest house, a big panel event, followed by a big signing event, visiting sets used in Western movies, stopping in to watch filming of a movie, meeting Vincent D'Onofrio and Ethan Hawke, meeting the lovely Marisa Xochtl Jimenez of the Stagecoach Foundation, watching Sage (my 16 year old son) network with authors, actors, directors and producers. He's got skills. Also, the last night's bash at Meow Wolf, where this photo was taken!</span><br />
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Love this. My daughter's commissioned artwork in the opening pages of a Japanese knitting magazine. Japan! She's an international artist, apparently.<br />
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David Anthony Durhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13885922955551669016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12158536.post-877858493121261432017-10-06T10:24:00.000-04:002017-10-06T10:24:48.923-04:00Wild Cards Mass Signing<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsewdjlxLIydxBXKqPCofDrBHNLRpji51XW_wPD0oB7CroMv6Azwq6962Zz-E4zjGrSGGT-IcbUmGTV9InEhZkVFdS_o3XlE1x-TCBA3ODT25TzXh_7Ba9NlUTj6jg2mSBD5FA/s1600/Lowball+Cover.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="397" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsewdjlxLIydxBXKqPCofDrBHNLRpji51XW_wPD0oB7CroMv6Azwq6962Zz-E4zjGrSGGT-IcbUmGTV9InEhZkVFdS_o3XlE1x-TCBA3ODT25TzXh_7Ba9NlUTj6jg2mSBD5FA/s320/Lowball+Cover.JPG" width="211" /></a>Here's a cool thing:<br />
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"Jean Cocteau Cinema Celebrates the WILD CARD ANNIVERSARY by hosting a special multi-author book signing with the authors of Wild Cards, an epic science fiction anthology about super heroes and powerful villains (edited by George R.R. Martin)."<br />
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That includes me!<br />
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<a href="http://jeancocteaucinema.com/wild-cards/" target="_blank">Here's the announcement on the Jean Cocteau website.</a><br />
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<a href="https://grrm.livejournal.com/551552.html" target="_blank">And here's George's post on his Not a Blog.</a><br />
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It'll be a good time. My son, Sage, is going with me. I'll get to watch him network. ;-)<br />
<br />David Anthony Durhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13885922955551669016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12158536.post-24586506764898445802017-04-18T09:32:00.001-04:002017-04-18T09:33:34.245-04:00PUB DAY<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "san francisco" , , "blinkmacsystemfont" , ".sfnstext-regular" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pub Day. That's today. <a href="http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/216419/the-risen-by-david-anthony-durham/9780307948557/" target="_blank">THE RISEN out in paperback.</a> :-)</span><br />
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David Anthony Durhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13885922955551669016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12158536.post-42317884359958827902017-04-11T07:09:00.002-04:002017-04-11T07:10:25.603-04:00Another Uprising<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG99KiZ8eALfrE9DX7DK8tQOUo3eyYKn51D6ZyiRi6q2RXTa5coTWACB7JnMg8ClocAR1gQy9HYiCH9eBaMFVofzqoPZtwcBMI4pmBK70dST_ZoEG0a-CEQ98F62XP8pYU8sNo/s1600/The+Riz.tiff" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG99KiZ8eALfrE9DX7DK8tQOUo3eyYKn51D6ZyiRi6q2RXTa5coTWACB7JnMg8ClocAR1gQy9HYiCH9eBaMFVofzqoPZtwcBMI4pmBK70dST_ZoEG0a-CEQ98F62XP8pYU8sNo/s320/The+Riz.tiff" width="320" /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "san francisco" , , "blinkmacsystemfont" , ".sfnstext-regular" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">Oh, right. There's a book of mine coming out in paperback, like, soon. April 18th, actually! <b><i>The Risen</i></b>! I just got a box of books today. I rather like the way they look. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: 'San Francisco', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;"><a href="http://www.wildcardsworld.com/wild-cards-comes-to-broadway/" target="_blank">Check this out: Wild Cards Heads to Broadway!</a></span>David Anthony Durhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13885922955551669016noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12158536.post-77428226591570545272017-03-02T09:27:00.002-05:002017-03-02T09:30:20.024-05:00UNR MFA and Me!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm super pleased to be able to announce that I've accepted a position in the MFA Program at the University of Nevada, Reno. This has been months in the making, with all the many stages of the search process. It took time. Interviews. Visits. But it was all worth it. I really liked everyone I met in the English Department. I had a great visit to Reno and love the location, tucked up against the Sierra Nevada mountain range. That's a terrific thing.<br />
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And... this a program that's open to genre writers! Sci-Fi. Fantasy. Horror. Crime. Young Adult. You name it. I'm so looking forward to joining the program and helping it to grow.<br />
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Looking for a traditional MFA program that's forward-looking? Look no further.<br />
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<a href="https://www.unr.edu/english/degrees/mfa" target="_blank">Check out the program HERE.</a><br />
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If you're interested in the program feel free to drop me an email. Let's chat.David Anthony Durhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13885922955551669016noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12158536.post-65317392850280300742017-02-28T09:14:00.000-05:002017-03-02T09:17:18.387-05:00Fiyah!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Very happy to have done an interview with Fiyah, a great website championing black SFF.<br />
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<a href="http://www.fiyahlitmag.com/2017/02/28/bhm-sff-interview-series-week-four/" target="_blank">You can read it HERE.</a><br />
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