The AFICTIONADO® Blog

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.  […]

I want to mention again the Mars Society meeting that will be October 15th – 18th. Okay, this is not science fiction.  This meeting is focused on the science and engineering necessary to get us to the red planet – and to plant a colony there.  Speakers are from JPL, from NASA, from overseas, and […]

The upcoming new book will be titled Complicated: The Interstellar Life and Times of Saoirse Kenneally and I’m aiming to have it out at the end of this year or beginning of the next.  There’s a lot of frantic work between now and then and editing and proofing is only part of it.  A book needs […]

Been reading my way through Seanan McGuire’s Wayward Children series.  I don’t usually go for series, but to my mind, that’s a set of books with a small number of continuing characters who have a different adventure (or mystery) in each book but the characters don’t change (or grow) that much from book to book.  […]

Sequels, prequels and series.  A lot of books have them, or are part of them (for series), and I’ve been getting that question, mostly for Accidental Warrior.  So, have I thought about what happens to Hal and Bel after the end of the book?  Well, yes.  Have I decided to write a story about it?  […]