With total advances (not including film rights) approaching the two million-dollar mark, has rocked the publishing world with his debut novel The Gargoyle.
Growing up in Pinawa, home of Atomic Energy of Canada's former Whiteshell Laboratories, he traveled the world before moving back to Winnipeg in 2008 to finish what Sara Gruen (author of Water for Elephants) describes as "a hypnotic, horrifying, astonishing novel."
Andrew kindly took the time to answer some questions for our website readers. The full interview follows.
Categories: Interview, buzz, Authors, Winnipeg, New Releases, Publishing News
lives in Toronto, and is one of a surprising number of Canadians writing fiction for Wizards of the Coast, set in the worlds of the Dungeons and Dragons roleplaying game. I was fortunate that Don took the time to answer some of my questions about the writing life of a shared world author and his forthcoming novel, The Doom of Kings.
Categories: Interview, SciFi & Fantasyhas been successful for over twenty years in writing mostly hard science fiction while many of the genre's authors have turned to fantasy to satisfy readers. Part of that success has come from looking for places that no one else was writing, and finding, or creating a gap to fill. From his early cyberpunk-esque work Hardwired and the related novels, through the complex fantastic science-fiction of the Metropolitan series and the galaxy-spanning Dread Empire books, Walter's work has consistently asked us to look at how our philosophy shapes the world we live in. Nowhere is that more true than in his latest book Implied Spaces, new this month from Nightshade.
Categories: Interview, Staff Pick, Authors, SciFi & Fantasy
August long weekend (Aug 1-4),Gimli plays host to Manitoba's Icelandic Festival: Islendingadagurinn. Luckily, I was able to have a short email conversation with award-winning Icelandic crime writer, .
Categories: Interview, Mystery & Crime
emerged on the fantasy scene 25 years ago with the appearance of Jhereg. His mix of comedy, grittiness, and tiny wise-ass dragons attracted my attention almost immediately, and I haven't been disappointed since.
July marks the arrival of the latest Vlad Taltos novel, Jhegaala, the eleventh in the planned nineteen books about Vlad and his annoying familiar. Steve has had some health problems recently (which I've previously discussed here), and I think I can speak for all his fans when I say that we hope this is behind him and he has many productive years ahead. After watching the blog Steve shares with some close friends for the last few months (recently relocated to his Dream Cafe site), I've taken the opportunity to presume on his writing time for an interview.
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