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A Thought About Lovecraft
If you were to pick out who is the most “problematic” character in the SF/Fantasy canon, H.P.Lovecraft has got to be near the top of the list. He is probably one of the most influential voices in the...
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CoG Update
The first draft of Welcome to Moreytown is done! Yay! After a few more run-throughs I should be handing it off to Choice Of Games by the end of the week. The bad news, for those of you itching to play...
View ArticleStill working, still here. . .
Just a little update to let you know I’m still alive, still busy doing game things like revising my final draft for my editor. Now that’s done, we’re on to continuity and beta testing. In the meantime...
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World-building is what you make it. . .
I’ve been reading some Neal Stephenson lately and I’ve been reminded of a point that I often try to make when I do my world-building talks. The point being that the skills used for world-building in...
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And Speaking of Worldbuilding…
Since I was talking about world-building earlier, thought I’d follow up with something a little different. Here’s a few ongoing webcomics that I really like that have created truly impressive universes...
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Concoction
I’m going to be at the Cleveland Concoction convention this coming weekend from March 10th through the 12th. If you’re in the area, directions are here. You can find the overall schedule here, as for...
View ArticleContinuing on my trek into the 21st Century
Updated my blog as I mentioned in the last post. Now I’m looking at my career while I wait for a couple of editors to respond to my latest projects. Short term I’m looking at possibly another Choice of...
View ArticleLounging About
I just want to let people know about my continued effort to integrate myself into the social media landscape (or other buzzwords to that effect) I have launched myself a Facebook group called Swann’s...
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Self-Destructive Writerly Sins
Don’t be this Book I’ve written before about the self-destructive urges writers get. Plagiarism needs to be near the top of the list. Penning sexist rants about your greatness to an agent is another....
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Zombies, Steampunk & Time-Travel, Oh My…
Guess who’s got a new book out. On January 15th, my new novel Marked will officially hit the shelves. DAW’s given it a nice trade paperback treatment, with a kick-ass cover by Chris Gibbs. And yes,...
View ArticleWhat the Punk?
So a few days ago Slate published an article in what has become a distressingly common subgenre we could call “People are writing SF wrong! Here’s what we must do to fix it!” It seems to have been...
View ArticleMe Out on the Web
Now that Marked has come out, I’ve been doing some e-mail interviews with blogs out there on the Interwebs. Today one of my interviews has appeared on Paul Semel’s blog. I get to talk about Marked,...
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Outsourcing Your Stupidity
It has been a while since I’ve done a rant about plagiarism. It’s one of the more corrosive bits of self-destruction writers engage in. It might be envy, or laziness or something deep-seated and...
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ARC Giveaway and Big Changes in my Writing Career!
Coming soon to Amazon.com 2019 will mark a couple of significant changes in the writing career of S. Andrew Swann, prompting me to offer an ARC giveaway. The first major event, unfortunately, I can’t...
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Epic Sword & Sorcery Game Release
Available September 12th On Thursday, September 12th, Choice of Games will release Sword of the Slayer, the epic sword & sorcery game I’ve been working on for the past year. Choice of Games...
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