speculative fiction writer
This week’s theme for the Night Bazaar is Steampunk: Fetishizing a time that never was.
I know very little about Steampunk, although I’d like to learn and read more, and was wondering what on earth I would write. Fortunately, the Internet alerted me to the fact that NORTHERN LIGHTS, one of my favourite books, is considered to have elements of Steampunk, so I very happily talked about that. You can read it here:
My Dad has always been immensely particular about the presentation of work, which is probably why, when I used to write stories as a kid, I’d always make them into ‘proper books’ with hand drawn covers and a bit of wool to bind them. (Dad has worked as an animator and graphic designer, so something of that must be lurking in the genes.)
When OSIRIS was first being sent out to publishers, there was much speculation between myself and the other members of Family Swift about what the cover might look like, should I be fortunate enough to get a book deal. Would it feature the characters? Would it depict the city? What would be the colour scheme be? And so forth.
When I saw the artwork for OSIRIS, I was hugely excited, and the final cover is better than anything I could have imagined. So this post is really just to say thank you, to Night Shade for doing such a wonderful job with it, and to the following people in particular:
Sparth, for the jacket illustration
Victoria Maderna and Federico Piatti, for the jacket design
Amy Popovich, for the interior layout and design
Thank you!
Week 2 at The Night Bazaar – this week our topic is ‘Wolf Pack of One?’. Do we write in a vacuum or participate in workshops? Who do we trust, if anyone, to read our first drafts? Link to my post below:
This month I’ve started blogging for The Night Bazaar, a group blog for authors with books releasing from Night Shade Books in 2012. Each week we write on a given topic and it’s a wonderful opportunity to exchange thoughts with other writers and find out what we share, or what we do differently. I’ll be blogging every Tuesday until July – here’s a link to my first post:
I’m thrilled to announce that my debut science fiction novel Osiris has been acquired by US publisher Night Shade Books. Osiris will be published in summer 2012 and is the first in The Osiris Project trilogy.
I’m very much looking forward to working with the folks at Night Shade and joining their fantastic line-up of writers.
You can read more from Night Shade at www.nightshadebooks.com and from my agent at zenoagency.com
You can read more about Osiris here.
Interzone #238 is up on the TTA website to order. My first publication so I’m suitably excited!
http://ttapress.com/interzone/currentissue/
Hello and welcome to ejswift.co.uk, domain of writer and novelist E J Swift.
My work focuses on science fiction and the fantastical, and my debut story The Complex will be appearing in Interzone magazine early 2012.
You can find out a bit more about me and what I write via the links above. Some of it’s serious and some of it’s – less serious.
E. J. Swift