The Unwritten #3 Sells Out!
We just heard today that The Unwritten #3 has sold out at the distributor. That makes sell outs for #1, #2, and #3! Sure, it took a bit longer for 3, but we’re not complaining. Response to the series continues to be outstanding, and the reviews for the current issue (#5) have been amazing. Those first five issues will be collected in the first trade (out in early January) and it sounds like the advance orders for that are stellar too. I can’t... Read More
Summer’s Over
The Unwritten #5, Page 1 (click to enlarge) Ever since San Diego I’ve been swamped with work and trying to enjoy some holiday time with the family and I’ve had no time to post. And I have so much fun stuff I want to talk about, like my new fountain pen nibs ground by nibmeister Richard Binder, or the crazy expensive new glasses I’m trying out because I can’t stand not being able to see without carrying around 3 pairs of glasses. More... Read More
Four Days in Poland
I just got back from Poland last night, having spent four very full days there on a signing tour. Well, I thought it was a signing tour, but actually it turned out to be something slightly else. My Polish publishers, MAG and Egmont, invited me over both to attend PolCon (Poland’s science fiction convention) and to talk to Polish media about my writing. So it was only at PolCon, on the Saturday, that I did any actual signing: the rest of the time... Read More
The Iron Dream
More fiction based in fictional universes. In The Iron Dream, Norman Spinrad indulges in a thought experiment. What if Adolf Hitler had never gotten into politics? What if he’d never joined the German Workers’ Party and re-invented it as the National Socialists? Maybe he’d have drifted into some other career. God knows, judging from the few Hitler canvases that are still extant, he’d never have hacked it as a fine artist. Spinrad imagines... Read More
Venus On the Half-Shell
A lot of what we’re doing in The Unwritten is exploring the relationship between fiction and reality – and the ways in which the one can influence the other. But just recently I’ve been looking at fictions that are at two removes from reality instead of one – in other words, fictions written by fictional characters, or by real characters within a fictional universe. The two that I’ve actually been reading this week are Venus On the Half-Shell... Read More
