Colin Harvey – author

I posted a new blog about promotional strategies for new authors at Suite101.

Interesting piece by the author of newly acclaimed Red Riding Quartet. Shame about the churlish:

“I want truth, honesty and sincerity in my work and the work of others. I don’t want to read a book that was written in order to purchase a faster car or a bigger house by someone who would be a science fiction writer if it paid better.”

As I noted on TTA Board, there’s obviously no truth, honesty or sincerity in SF according to this guy. Nice to know literary snobbery is alive and well and living in Tokyo.

As well as writing short stories and novels, I also review several of the major magazines such as Asimov’s and Interzone for Suite101.  I’ve just posted a review of the April-May issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction. The link is here – feel free to stop by and take a look.

More later.

Colin

It seems a reasonable title for my first post from WordPress.com so I might as well stick with it.  My main blog is still over at Suite101.com, where I comment on SF, and for whom I review about once a week, but I guess as I get used to the dashboard, I may well find myself migrating over here.

I expect it to be quiet initially, but feel free to stop by and say howdy!

Harry Harrison, that’s who. It was on his advice that I started editing.

And now I beg to differ.

I just spent the best part of the last 36 hours crash-editing the subs for Future Bristol, and while one of them needed only one query, another ran to 43 comments, queries and suggested changes. Aaaagh!

Never mind, it’ll be worth it.

I’ve now hit 57k words (another 1000 added today). It’s not all deathless prose, most of it is to get the characters from A to Z, with the texture and depth being added later on, but there is the occasional fine phrase. 

And 3 blog entries posted at suite101, including one on the launch party for Vengeance. 

But I’m starting to feel like I’m on a treadmill that never stops. I could murder a bit of non-SF to read, but I counted up and I have about 15 or 16 mags and books to read.

I don’t normally do New Year’s resolutions; what’s the point — I only end up breaking them. But maybe one would be to start actually using some of all the various blogs and stuff to which I belong but which I rarely –if ever– use.

So here it is. First blog of the year. Time to move onto MySpace, Facebook, Suite101 and all the other ones that get in the way of proper writing.