Holy cow, ALA was simply wonderful. The summary is below. You can find my speech here: http://johndbrown.com/2009/07/gateway-drugs-and-fiction/ Got to go to dinner, ride in cabs, and chat at length with: A bunch of librarians who were complete characters. One guy named Milton Wolf who has written a lot on SFF and has been known to ski cross-country naked.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE IS SF/FANTASY KEY TO TEEN LITERACY? Findings presented at national American Library Association conference reveal science fiction & fantasy literal gateway drugs to youth literacy CHICAGO, ILLINOIS | July 11, 2009 | Utah’s newest author, John Brown, summarized statistics and research at the 2009 national American Library Association (ALA) conference held in
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Holy schmoly, has this been a ride. I projected the CURSE OF A DARK GOD to be 140,000 words. When I blew by that, I projected it would be 170,000. Today I just typed the last word of the first draft. It’s 230,000 words. For reference SERVANT OF A DARK GOD is 170,000 words. The bad news
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Bow to the dark god, ye minions. Here’s some of what’s coming in book 2: The dogmen of Toth and their maulers The Ungar and the one they call Ruin The tanglewoods of the woodikin Firesteeds Gloryweaves Nashrud the hunter And last, but not least, the Orange-eyed priest of Mungo The end is in sight on
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CONduit is a conference for speculative fiction writers. This year’s conference was great. I was able to see and talk to a bunch of writer friends (Dave Wolverton, Dan Wells, Brandon Sanderson, Howard & Sandra Tayler, Eric James Stone, Ami Chopine, Darren Egget, Skipper Ritchotte, Mette Harrison), make some new ones (Lee Modesitt, James Dashner, Julie Wright, Aprilynne
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