“Are you on a diet or something?” This question came about because the group was reading a little scifi I’d written wherein the characters were (GASP!), eating. One character had lunch (a turkey sandwich, light mayo). Next, he had dinner with a friend: Dinner turned out to be a Mexican Sushi place in one...
It’s been a weird couple of weeks. I continue to write and push forward but I had a few days where no words hit the page. Definitely in the home stretch, though. After breaking all the characters up for a time, I’ve just managed to bring them all back together for the wild ride...
A while ago, the idea came up to do something a little different with the SF Signal podcast. Lots of people were making favorable comparisons between our weekly panel discussions and the panels you might see at a World Con. Flattering. We talked about it and decided that it might be fin to expand...
So, I recently shared with you guys an excerpt from a WIP – an untitled space opera. It was from one characters point of view – the story itself has multiple characters so we can see a lot of different pov’s. Today, I wanted to share one of those with you. Ulysses Sean Starker...
This one has been bouncing around in my head for quiet some time. I work a little on it now and then when the mood strikes me. It’s a complicated piece. This week, after complaining that I hadn’t been very productive, I found myself working on this again and really getting into it so...
So. World Fantasy had this fantastic dealers room. I didn’t buy anything in there. The reason I didn’t buy anything is actually logistics, not finances; I brought plenty of money with me so I could buy what I wanted, but the convention gave me a stack of books (see this earlier post for details)...
This past weekend, I flew to Columbus, Ohio to attend the World Fantasy Convention. I knew from past conventions that I’ve attended, that you usually get a bag of goodies. It never occurred to me that this convention would give me a bag full of books. Holy cow. Don’t get me wrong, I was...
One day I was sitting here and I thought, we need more cowboys in space. This lead me to sit down at the computer and start writing. The result was originally called ‘The Brothers of Katie Rose’; an homage to the classic western flick, ‘The Sons of Katie Elder’, but then I changed it...
/begin random thoughts I wish I could better streamline my day and time. Aren’t we all about that? Getting more done, having more time, etc and so on? I find there are times when I wish my body wouldn’t betray my brain; I want to write, to work on this or that, but my...
Once again, my friend John Anealio and I had the privilege of hosting a fantastic guest over on the Functional Nerds podcast. John Picacio is an award winning artist who has put together some of the most memorable cover art I’ve seen in a long time. His covers grace books from many different publishers,...
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Patrick Hester is an author, blogger and Hugo Nominated Podcast Producer/Host who lives in Colorado and writes science fiction and fantasy (mostly)...[click to read more]
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