Author Archives: Thomas Weaver
A Few Thoughts About Stuff: January 6, 2024
A funny thing happened the other day when I went to Amazon and looked up my clone-sibling’s most recently published novel: I typed his name, and Amazon gave me Paul B. Spence Sorcerer. That’s funny. And inaccurate. And incorrectly punctuated, too: … Continue reading
How the Writing Is Going: December 22, 2023 (plus holiday cat photos)
In this week’s episode of Anything to Avoid Working on the Judgement Manuscript, author Paul B. Spence has written about three thousand words of Fimbulwinter after agonizing over how much backstory (summary of what the protagonist was doing in previous … Continue reading
Announcing The High Priestess
An announcement from sci-fi author Paul B. Spence: Darkness Rising Book Two: The High Priestess The blurb: How to stop a war… or start one. Far from the shattered worlds of the Ruined Courts lie the Golden Kingdom and the Eternal … Continue reading
Writing Stuff Happens Sometimes
Q: “Do you worry about running out of ideas for stories?” A: Never in a thousand years. Paul did say that we have to finish the entire series that begins with Fimbulwinter before the end of this decade, though, and … Continue reading
How the Writing and Editing Are Going: November 9, 2023
Just finished the final round of editing on The High Priestess a few minutes before noon. Wanted to get it done before the eleventh of the month, because November 11 and precognition have an unpleasant association in my mind, and … Continue reading
Argh! November AGAIN… (But It’s Not All Bad)
Paul wrote five thousand words on the Judgement manuscript today. He never does NaNoWriMo, either. Just thought you should all know that, because once again, a few people have attempted to leave comments on my blog asking me if I’m … Continue reading
Announcing THE SORCERER, by Paul B. Spence
From this post on the blog of Paul B. Spence, sci-fi author: Be careful when answering the door… University student Geoffrey and his housemate Jason are living ordinary lives until a mysterious stranger, Jon, shows up wounded on … Continue reading
How All the (Current) Book Stuff Is Going: October 20, 2023
We have the start of a blurb for The Sorcerer. (*editor breathes a sigh of relief*) It needs a little bit of adjustment, but that’s all. (As Paul has been saying a lot in recent months, “Anything to avoid working … Continue reading
One More Round of Editing…
Got the manuscript of The Sorcerer back from the author today. I’ll give it one more pass of light editing, to make sure no comma splices slipped in while he was clarifying pronouns and whatnot, and then this novel will … Continue reading
(random-ish thoughts on high vs. low fantasy)
I was asked for my thoughts on high versus low fantasy. I may be able to come up with something more focused later, but this is where my brain went at first (so expect a bit of ramble — the … Continue reading