Ray Bradbury has passed. I saw Twitter and FaceBook fill with people sharing their favorite Bradbury stories. He was a touchstone writer, both for my field and in the larger world. So many were touched by his stories. The first Bradbury stories I encountered were from The Martian Chronicles. It was an awkward first encounter,…
Author: Tobias Buckell
Born in the Caribbean, Tobias S. Buckell is a New York Times Bestselling author. His novels and over seventy stories have been translated into nineteen different languages. He has been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, and John W. Campbell Award for Best New Science Fiction Author. He currently lives in Ohio.
How I Used Kickstarter to Reboot a Book Series
How being an early user of Kickstarter for a fiction book helped me reach fans and rebooted a book series.
A Writer and His Aspirations
One of the problems with talking about writing advice is that different pieces of writing advice hit people at different parts of their journey. It’s often why I think writing advice from someone *just* slightly ahead of where you are in a career can often be the most easy to puzzle apart and get. I’d…
Writers and Pellets: How Randomness, Success, and Art Can Drive You Crazy
A good friend asked me to write about my pigeons and pellets story I’ve been telling friends for the past year. It goes something like this… When I talk to writers I often reinforce the importance of milestones versus goals. Milestones are things you’d like to have happen to you. Selling a story. Selling a…
To Achieve More: Daydream More
I’m deep into working on Arctic Rising at full pace once more, after spending a few weeks with Arctic Rising on a back burner, getting fewer words in per day, as I focused mainly on a novella for a secret project (hopefully you’ll get to hear more about that soon). I’d left the book at…
How To Make a Living as a Writer: Live Somewhere Cheap
Pat Rothfuss gives great advice over here for writers: In closing, if you could give one piece of advice to new writers, what would it be? Live somewhere cheap. I beg your pardon? Odds are, it’s going to take you a long time to finish your novel. Then it’s going to take you a long…
I Never Had Dreads
I was at a con a while back where someone swore they’d met me ‘back in the days when you had dreadlocks’ and nothing I could do would dissuade this person from believing I’ve never had them. It’s true though, nonetheless. I’ve had long hair, but not locks. Because I’m not rasta. Let me take…
The Finances of Freelancing: Some Gritty Details for the Geeky
Recently I purchased a $234 solid state hard drive. I’ve been waiting for almost three months to buy it. Before that, I knew I didn’t have the wiggle room. I knew I wouldn’t have it for another month, unless one of a handful of promised windfalls due to fiction writing would show up. The windfall…
An Unanticipated Personal Encounter with the Canadian Health System
This weekend, while attending the annual gathering of science fiction and fantasy fans in Montreal for Worldcon, I overdid it a bit. Well, I lie. I overdid it a lot. The Worldcon was fantastic. Full of old friends and acquaintances. Montreal has fast become one of my favorite cities from what I saw of it,…
I’m a DAD!
Calliope Ann Buckell and Thalia Lyn Buckell were born, just before 7AM this morning, 5 pounds 8 ounces and 5 pounds 6 respectively. Mom and daughters are hale and hearty and the doctor said it was an easy and textbook delivery. edit: for those wondering, we’re back home, but the twins are in the special…