The AFICTIONADO® Blog

Spent a lot of time from Thursday through Sunday online with the Mars Society meeting. As I’ve noted before, this is not a science fiction convention; it is a dead-serious society of people dedicated to putting a real settlement on Mars. The only relationship to science fiction is that the Mars Society aims to turn […]

The cover art for Complicated: The Interstellar Life and Times of Saoirse Kenneally has arrived!  It is gorgeous (okay, I’m biased) and a very nice incorporation of some key themes from the story.  it makes me even more eager to get the book finished.  Still tracking for late fall to early winter.  You can see the cover […]

I was late to the idea of audiobooks.  I grew up reading books and the idea of listening to them instead didn’t click for me.  If nothing else, I can read a whole lot faster than someone can narrate.  So, when I started to write, the idea of producing an audiobook never crossed my mind.  […]

Book reviews, I mean official editorial ones.  Important to have when you are launching a book so the book will be noticed, especially if you are indie and self-published, but that is exactly where they can be hard to get.  So, a notice came the other day from Barnes and Noble about a new partnership […]

It seems the week is gone in the blink of an eye, and that’s without going to an office anymore.  A lot of it is the thousand and one details of self-publishing and indie work, all of which has to be done if you are planning to have anyone beyond family and close friends read […]

This has turned into more of a weekend maunder as we are long past mid-week.  I did want to finish, though, with the Wayward Children series and not wait until next week.  “Come Tumbling Down” by Seanan McGuire is the fifth and last (so far) of the Wayward Children books.  It is another excellent one.  […]