This week I’ve had the opportunity to appear a number of places. In case you missed them, here’s a little roundup of guest posts and appearances you can catch up on:
“Authors often use the past for inspiration. But what point does the inspiration of earlier days become a problem for the setting our author wants to write for?”
Mary Robinette Kowal’s My Favorite Bit series
“There were two main things I wanted when I began writing Black Sails to Sunward. First was that I wanted it to be in space and use the hardest science I could manage. Second was that I wanted it to feel like an old timey sailing ship. Everything from officers in tailcoats to cutlass battles to pirates. I wanted that mood, and I wanted it to happen in space.”
The Speculative Fiction Showcase
“A few weeks since war had been declared and everything had changed. Whole new warehouses had sprung up. Trucks full of sheet metal and cables and hydrogen tanks and unlabeled crates waited to get close to the elevator, and shouting longshoremen passed boxes from hand to hand to get them onto the pier.”
A YouTube interview with fellow science fiction author Jendia Gammon
We talked about my book, science fiction in general, worldbuilding, writing tips, and more.
If you’ve purchased the book, thank you! I’m always up for discussing it, here or on social media. Reviews you post online are a massive help, whether on Goodreads, Amazon, or anywhere else. A review doesn’t have to be positive to be useful both to me and other readers, so go ahead and say what you think!
Sheila Jenne, author 