Fiyah!

Very happy to have done an interview with Fiyah, a great website championing black SFF.

You can read it HERE.

The Arched Doorway

New interview up at The Arched Doorway. It was good fun talking with Rebecca Lovatt at the World Fantasy Conference in Toronto. She managed to secure an impressive number of author interviews. I'm one of them!

Check it out the interview - and her very cool blog - HERE.

I Talk...

...with The Original Fantasy blog. Wanna hear me?

No. Well, then. Fine.

You could listen to the interview to hear Emily Craven, though. She's Australian. Very nice. We spoke via Skype. I sat in my car picking up my local library's internet in Massachusetts. She was all the way on the other side of the globe. Weird stuff.

Anyway, this will get you to it:E-Book Revolution Mini-Podcast

Race Roundtable Part Two

Just up at SF Signal, the continuation of the Roundtable Interview with Aliette de Bodard, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Ken Liu... and me! This time, it seems like I'm more optimistic than the group in general. Go figure...

It's HERE.

Thanks to Zachary Jernigan (a stellar writer, by the way) for putting it all together.

Writing About Race in Science Fiction and Fantasy

Just up at SF Signal, the beginning of a Roundtable Interview with Aliette de Bodard, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Ken Liu... and me! I can't vouch for myself, but I know the others said some insightful stuff.

Take a look HERE.

I've Joined Him Again

Jon Armstrong has kindly posted a podcast interview he did with with me for his ongoing series If You're Just Joining Us. He gets me talking about Acacia, YA, writing rituals and Scotland.

If you'd like to have a listen you can do so HERE.

Jon's a great guy, and a wonderful writer himself. We first met when we were both in competition for the John W Campbell Award. We've kept in touch since.

Underwords Interview

Erin Underwood has just put up an interview she did with me on her website, Underwords.

I know I'm biased, but I think it's one of my better interviews. Erin asked really interesting questions - a mixture of serious ones and random ones. Want to know about the cows peering in my window or what my super power is? Want more on the Spartacus Bunny Wars?

Erin tried to get the answers out of me. Admittedly, I sometimes dodged.

But... you will find in the interview my most candid admission yet that I've been working on a fantasy series for kids! Oh my.

Go take a look. It's HERE.

David Liss Interview

There's a nice interview with bestselling historical author David Liss over at Book(ed) Passage. He's promoting his new book, The Twelfth Enchantment.

He says lots of smart stuff, like:

"I always put character and story before research, so as much as possible, I try to bring in historical detail in such a way that it seems like an organic part of the novel, and not something tacked on or a duty to discharge."

Ah, yes, something I say often to aspiring historical novelists, and something I should remember as I return to historical material myself.

(Oh, and he mentions me!)

You can read the whole thing HERE.

Hear Me Roar!

Not really. Hear me... talk. How about that?

Shawn Speakman at Suvudu.com was kind enough to carve out some interview time for me at Comic-Con. I was in there with the big hitters, literally. (Just after my interview, I had to clear out for Pat Rothuss to interview Jim Butcher!)

Anyway, I don't think I did too poorly, but you can judge for yourself: the interview is HERE.

Two Authors Talking Each Other's Ears Off

That's what you'll find over at the Fantasy Book Critic. The authors are Robert V.S. Redick and myself! I think we say a smart thing or two, but that may just be me. Judge for yourself.

The chat is HERE.

Suvudu at Comic-Con

I've got another session lined up at Comic-Con. I'll be doing an interview with the website Suvudu while I'm in San Diego. Want to ask me something and see me answer it live on camera?

If so, click over to the Suvudu site and leave a question. Shawn may well use it!

Locus, Baby!

A few years back, when I was about to embark on a large epic fantasy project called Acacia: The War with the Mein, I decided I needed to educate myself on the current state of the SF genre. One of the ways I did this was to access my local library's (Hurrah for the Western MA system!) back issues of Locus magazine. For months I'd go in and grab ten at a time, taking them home and reading, month by month, reviews and articles and publishing announcements and advertisements and, most notably, author interviews.

I recall once sitting in the parking lot at a local nursery while my wife went in to pick plants, reading an interview with a guy named George RR Martin, thinking, "I dig what this guy says. I gotta read him sometime..."

Fast forward a few years, friends, and I'm very, very pleased to find myself interviewed in Locus! HERE's info on the issue.

I'm thrilled. Thank you, Locus!

AudioFile Interview

My librarian just informed me that I have an interview/article in the current issue of AudioFile magazine. Nice.

HERE it is!

Interview, Part Two

The second part of my interview with Larry at OF Blog of the Fallen has just gone up. It's HERE!

Interview: OF Blog Of The Fallen

The first part of a two part interview just went up at OF Blog of the Fallen. Larry asked great questions, substantive ones that range away from just talking about the book and get into lots of other stuff.

Check it out: HERE.

Also, his earlier review of The Other Lands is HERE.

The Dragon Page

Sorry to just be lobbing links to interviews and reviews at you these last couple of weeks, but this period will pass before long so I'd better make the best of it.

Here's another podcast! This time it's with the folks at The Dragon Page. These guys are fun, too. Not sure about the author in question, but still...

Check it out HERE.

Tidbits

Artist extraordinaire John Picacio has been nice enough to give The Other Lands (Acacia, Book 2) cover treatment a shout out at Missions Unknown! Take a look at the other choices that caught his HERE.

(By the way, the image here in one of John's, the cover of Subterranean's Muse of Fire, by Dan Simmons. Pretty cool, huh?)

Just got word that a new podcast interview I did recently with Jon Armstrong has gone up on his site, If You're Just Joining Us. It was a pleasure talking to him. I'd first done so a little over a year ago also, back when we were both up for the 2008 Campbell Award. (For the record, Jon did get more votes than me that time around. So the eventual win this year was definitely a come from behind deal.)

He's always fun to chat with. Oh, and you can listen and then tell me how I don't sound anything like you'd imagined... It's HERE.

David Liss Interview

I just came across an interview with David Liss at Girls Just Reading. David is one of my favorite historical novelists, author of The Whiskey Rebels, A Conspiracy of Paper, The Coffee Trader, among others. His newest is The Devil's Company, which I haven't read yet, but will soon.

Now, as I send you over to the interview I should mention that David isn't just a favorite author because he writes entertaining, smart, well-plotted historical fiction about memorable characters. That's more than enough, but I also should mention that he's been know to say nice things about my writing - as he does in this interview. Smart guy, indeed.

The interview is HERE.

Interview bretonne de David Anthony Durham

Elbakin.net just put up an interview I did with them while in France.

It was good fun, done at a patio table at a creperie in Rennes, with a small group of people I now think of as friends.

The Elbakin.net folks also alerted me to another French Acacia development, but in the interests of creating suspense (and stretching content) I'll hold off on that post for a day or two...

Interview with MRK & The Deal

Mary Robinette Kowal, the current reigning Campbell queen, has started a series of interview features with the rabble that would like to grab her tiara. She sent me some questions a few days ago, I shot them back to her fast, and she's posted them. Take a look here.

As I send you over there, I realize that in one of my answers I made a wee announcement that I hadn't actually made here yet. It's a Kowal exclusive. Perhaps I should say a word about it, though. So, go take a look and then come back and we'll talk.

I'll just look at puppies until you get back...

Okay, so you're back? Right. You may have noticed that I announced over there that I'll be leaving my full-time teaching job at Cal State Fresno. Yep. Crazy, huh? With this economy? Are you loopy, David? (That's me talking to myself. Sorry...)

Well, yes, it may be a bit loopy, but it may also be wonderful. When we moved West three years ago, we were following the teaching jobs that were on offer. Good jobs. Engaging teaching. Grown-up security. But we were also leaving behind a house in the woods in Western Massachusetts, a house and community we really rather loved. We've decided the time away has been enough. We're going back. (There's more to it than that, but that's the short version.)

So what am I going to do for a living at my "house in the woods"? Part time I'll continue to teach for the Stonecoast MFA Program. It's a low-residency program that includes Popular Fiction in its curriculum. I get to hang out with James Patrick Kelly, Kelly Link, Nancy Holder and Michael Kimball (just to name a few folks), and I get to work with material that's often close to my own interests.

But that's just part time. More significantly, my full time job will be... writing. Writing books. Writing stories. Writing blog posts, essays, reviews. Writing stuff. I hope that excites you. It excites me, but it'll only work if I have some help from my friends.

So don't be shy out there. If you like my work buy a title every now and then. Tell friends. Give chunky books as birthday present. Write a blog post or review. I'll appreciate it each and every time, and in return I'll focus on being the best writer I can. And I'll make sure that if you do care about my characters and the worlds they live in I won't make you wait too long between books about them.

Deal?