http://www.davidlouisedelman.com Science Fiction Novelist, Blogger, Web Programmer Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:06:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Life moves fast, and this MultiReal promotion stuff is zipping by like an F-16. Here's a passel of news about book stuff, which I'm just going to lump here behind bullet points for lack of any better idea. Chat with Me on LibraryThing: From now until next Friday, August 1, I'm ... http://www.davidlouisedelman.com/book-news/multireal-miscellany/ This is the final week of my big summer giveaway contest. So if you're looking to win the David Louis Edelman ouevre, it's your laaaaaaast chance. Last week, I challenged you to create the dream presidential ticket with one of the current candidates as president and a comic book superhero as ... http://www.davidlouisedelman.com/book-promotion/summer-giveaway-4/ My Readercon is off to an auspicious beginning. I've just arrived, and I've already left the only copies of Infoquake and MultiReal I brought somewhere in Logan Airport. I think I probably left them sitting at the courtesy phones for the rental car shuttles. Here's my schedule, for those who will ... http://www.davidlouisedelman.com/science-fiction/my-readercon-19-schedule/ Yesterday Paul Di Filippo posted a review for my new novel MultiReal for SciFi.com. And not only did Mr. Di Filippo give the book a grade of a solid "A," but he name-checked half of the greats of science fiction in the process. To wit: Readers of this distinctive and well-conceived ... http://www.davidlouisedelman.com/book-news/scificom-compares-multireal-to-herbert-spinrad-bester-egan-etc/ In last week's contest -- week 2 of 4 -- I asked you to submit your favorite science fiction parody porno titles. I did indeed get some creative entries, though not as many as I would have liked. (And from many of the same people who entered last week.) The winner ... http://www.davidlouisedelman.com/book-promotion/summer-giveaway-3/ Jon Armstrong, author of the Philip K. Dick Award-nominated Grey and fellow nominee for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, has interviewed me on his "If You're Just Joining Us" podcast. Jon's been interviewing all of this year's Campbell nominees; he's already posted his chats with Mary ... http://www.davidlouisedelman.com/book-promotion/jon-armstrong-interview/ My pal John Joseph Adams, who seems to have become the charter member of the Edit a New Anthology With Great Authors Every Month Club, has posted a brief interview with me on SCI FI Wire discussing MultiReal. Excerpt: When writing MultiReal, Edelman challenged himself to stay away from conventional action ... http://www.davidlouisedelman.com/book-news/brief-sci-fi-wire-interview/ Before I report this news about yet another opportunity to win free copies of Infoquake, I feel compelled to remind you that you can actually, you know, buy these things too. LibraryThing has a program called LibraryThing Early Reviewers, wherein certain publishers make review copies of their books available to LibraryThing ... http://www.davidlouisedelman.com/book-news/infoquake-on-librarything-early-reviewers-list/ There's an interview with me about Infoquake and MultiReal that's been posted to the SFNovelists.com group. Simon Haynes, author of the Hal Spacejock series, has put the interview up on his Blogspot blog and his LiveJournal, God bless him. Since this is a group interview, it might still pop up ... http://www.davidlouisedelman.com/book-news/sfnovelists-interview-now-up/ In last week's contest, I asked for unpublishable blurbs for my novels, and you did not disappoint. I'm now ready to declare a winner. That winner? Frank Schiavo. Mr. Schiavo submitted this unpublishable (and borderline unbloggable) blurb: "MultiReal is the biggest and best thing I've held in my hands this year. ... http://www.davidlouisedelman.com/book-news/summer-giveaway-2/