News and announcements about Soon I Will Be Invincible. Which is a book for people who think supervillains are kind of interesting and also want to read something smart and basically literate.
Oh, hey, my girlfriend's a librarian, and she and her librarian co-workers sometimes send one-another links to cartoons at that site. I thought it looked familiar.
Awesome that they gave SIWBI a nod!
Lately I've been listening to the podiobook "Playing for Keeps," by Mur Lafferty, a story about some low-powered civilian supers who get caught between a high-powered superhero team and a handful of nefarious villains.
For people who can't wait for the SIWBI sequel to come out, "Playing for Keeps" might do well at filling the gap.
I have another author who can fill in the superhero fiction gap until the SIWBI sequel comes out, and that is J.R. DeRego, who so far has had them published on the free Escape Pod audio fiction podcast.
The superheroes in the Union Dues stories by DeRego walk a tight line between public adoration and utter calamity.
The superteams, each acting as a local chapter of the national superhero union and cloistered in their massive pyramid-shaped urban bases in their home cities, are a botched rescue attempt or poorly-handled disaster away from having the tide of public opinion turn against them permanently.
The stories each stand pretty well on their own, and are fairly short.
Austin, I don't mean to use your blog to go pimping other authors. I'm really just trying to draw your attention to them, since they're writing in the same sub-sub-genre.
And, after all, you said no-one tells you anything, a problem that I feel I can ameliorate in some small measure.
Posting on other people's blogs represents the extent of my own writing ambitions. I'm entirely a consumer of fiction, which I consider an artform best left to the artists.
I'm never sure how much other superhero fiction I should be reading - when I started Invincible it seemed like such a little-tried crossover idea - Fortress of Solitude hadn't even come out yet. Now it feels crowded - it's making it hard to write the next one!
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Oh, hey, my girlfriend's a librarian, and she and her librarian co-workers sometimes send one-another links to cartoons at that site. I thought it looked familiar.
Awesome that they gave SIWBI a nod!
Lately I've been listening to the podiobook "Playing for Keeps," by Mur Lafferty, a story about some low-powered civilian supers who get caught between a high-powered superhero team and a handful of nefarious villains.
For people who can't wait for the SIWBI sequel to come out, "Playing for Keeps" might do well at filling the gap.
Love it!!!
I didn't know about Playing for Keeps - because no one tells me anything - I'll check it out!
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Hey, are you going to be making any more appearances in support of the book, or are you done doing that until your next book?
Also, did you check out Playing for Keeps? I hope you dug it.
I have another author who can fill in the superhero fiction gap until the SIWBI sequel comes out, and that is J.R. DeRego, who so far has had them published on the free Escape Pod audio fiction podcast.
The superheroes in the Union Dues stories by DeRego walk a tight line between public adoration and utter calamity.
The superteams, each acting as a local chapter of the national superhero union and cloistered in their massive pyramid-shaped urban bases in their home cities, are a botched rescue attempt or poorly-handled disaster away from having the tide of public opinion turn against them permanently.
The stories each stand pretty well on their own, and are fairly short.
Austin, I don't mean to use your blog to go pimping other authors. I'm really just trying to draw your attention to them, since they're writing in the same sub-sub-genre.
And, after all, you said no-one tells you anything, a problem that I feel I can ameliorate in some small measure.
Posting on other people's blogs represents the extent of my own writing ambitions. I'm entirely a consumer of fiction, which I consider an artform best left to the artists.
I'm never sure how much other superhero fiction I should be reading - when I started Invincible it seemed like such a little-tried crossover idea - Fortress of Solitude hadn't even come out yet. Now it feels crowded - it's making it hard to write the next one!
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