From Kris:
30 Most Incredible Abstract Satellite Images of Earth
Including this beauty:
Jul 21, 2008
The New Yorker has this interesting article about itching and its causes with the startling case study of a woman who scratched through to her brain.
Jul 21, 2008
For those not aware, I am currently attending the Clarion West workshop in Seattle which is the reason for my radio silence. It’s such an intense experience that I have no interest in blogging about it. Though that may come later.
I am resuming contact to mention that I will likely be using the blog as a way to keep track of certain links or articles in the coming days, so be forewarned.
I hope everyone out there is doing well.
R.
Jul 01, 2008
A little while ago I was asked to read a story for the Podcastle site called The Grand Cheat by Hilary Moon Murphy.
The story is now up at Podcastle. Take a look over there or download it from iTunes.
Podcastle, Escape Pod, and Pseudopod are doing really great stuff with genre stories and they’re all worth a look.
Jun 18, 2008
I realized, on looking back, that the stories of mine that have had the best response are stories where the voice came easily to me. I think of it as “clicking” into the voice. Some stories have that from the beginning, others don’t. Last night, the other members of Altered Fluid helped me identify why those stories are more successful, though. There’s a confidence to that kind of writing that is often lacking in other stories. My one published story (so far) was like that. I clicked into the voice and I think that helped carry the story further.
I also realized that of those stories, most of them are told in the first person. I like first person a lot. Some of my favorite novels are first person novels, and Zelazny was one of my heroes. I remember reading, though, some cautions against first person for beginning writers. Which I agree with. It’s a hard thing to do well, I think. I’m not claiming to do so now. But sometimes it’s easier for me to get into the character that way. You can definitely convey more through their narrative style.
Obviously voice is an important aspect to a story, and I know this, but I don’t know that I’ve spent a lot of time up until now focusing on it. In some of my stories, the voice is clear from the start. In the others, though, I wonder what I can do to capture it.
Just thinking out loud…
Raining Fire – Out now!
Raining Fire, the third and final book in the Ben Gold series, was released on July 18, 2017. This book concludes the story begun in Falling Sky and Rising Tide. Publisher’s Weekly said, “Khanna wraps up his postapocalyptic adventure series with a capable page-turner…the airships, slavers, cannibalistic Ferals, and visceral action scenes make this a worthy culmination to the series.”
Available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble now.
Rising Tide -Out now!
Rising Tide, the sequel to Falling Sky, was released on October 6, 2015. Publisher's Weekly said, "Khanna crafts a terrifyingly dismal picture of the future, raising the stakes by gradually stripping Ben of friends and support while throwing him into increasingly dire situations. His worldbuilding remains solid and unsettling, and he never loses sight of the human element. The cliffhanger ending is sure to leave readers on the edges of their seats, panting for resolution."Falling Sky – Out now!
Falling Sky, my first novel, came out October 7, 2014 from Pyr. It's an adventure story set in a post-apocalyptic future with airships. Publisher's Weekly called it a "solid and memorable debut" while Library Journal gave it a starred review and named it Debut of the Month. For more information, please click here.