Dave Freer who's Dragon's Ring is on shelves now is now on Twitter as davefreersf and I've started an account I will probably not use much (nor post pages full of my Tweets here, nor link to my FB account...) but for the fun of it, for every ten people have are following me by 8pm ET today, i will Tweet one line of Dragon's Ring on Saturday. Look for as onyxhawke

http://twitter.com/davefreersf

http://twitter.com/onyxhawke

Y'all know that both Dave Freer's Dragon's Ring and Jame Enge's  This Crooked Way are on shelves for your enjoyment? Has anyone spotted them yet?

Dave Freer has been interviewed over here: http://scifiguysbookreview.blogspot.com/2009/09/podcast-5-interview-2-dave-freer-save.html  

Some or probably most of you already know davefreer is moving from South Africa, to Australia. He really wants to take his four legged family with him, and keep his fans happy while waiting for the next book to hit the shelves. So with the help of friends he launched this site to help cover the absurd cost of moving the fur dressed ones. There is also a Facebook group of the same name.

And I rarely do this, but It's Dave Freer's Birthday, also the anniversary of his first novel sale.

You can wish him a happy B'day here on LJ davefreer , on Facebook personally, and or by joining his fan page.

Dave Freer's Dragon's Ring has some tantalizing sample chapters right here for your pleasure.

Enjoy

In this copy you can read the cover blurbs and jacket flaps.( Cut for large pic.  )

The long anticipated truly drool worthy cover to Dragons Ring by Dave Freer (click to enlarge).

The Essential Why?

 

People ask; What does it take to get published? It takes a number of things. One is certainly, luck. It is almost certainly the smallest factor, but present. Finishing a novel is another, and by finishing I don’t mean simply writing until you toss in “the end”, but polishing the delivery, making vocabularies internally consistent and appropriately varied, making sure that rooms, cars and hair don’t change colors, brands or sizes from one chapter to the next and of course that you’ve spelled your each characters name the same way throughout the novel. There is of course the minor step of circulating a novel, of which any number of writers and agents have talked about before. But before each of those, and more importantly than any is why.

 

( in which i blither at length )

Dave Freer was mentioned as one of the funniest writers in SF/F. This is of course not news to those who read devour everything he writes.

There was an interview with Dave Freer about two weeks ago. Enjoy.

Those who were at Lunacon will be unsurprised that the Good is by far the longest section.


The good:
I arrived just before seven pm Thursday, having not eaten since mid day, I was merely famished. Dave & Barb Freer were in the lobby ready to start eating anyone who stopped moving, or was wearing an attractive cologne not having had a chance to eat since very early in the day. Eric Flint was there, as well as the Hoyt Collective. Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon arrived not to long after I did. We finally departed a bit after nine when it became noticeable that the Freer's and I were possibly not joking about which people would taste best with teriyaki and which with mango and papaya slices. ( Read more... )

Next Con:
Ravencon!

                                                Con Report — Lunacon 2009

Hilton Rye Town

 

( the report )

Chris McMahon

Sightings and hug-bys:
Mary Robinette Kowal, Ian Randal Strock, Joshua Palimatier, Lawrence Schoen, Bob Eggleton, Kate Paulk, Jeff Warner, Gail Martin and of course all the Guests.

Oh, and Mercedes Lackey reccomended http://moonedit.com/

More later.

One of the more important early sites is:


























More throughout the Con

In addition to Dave Freer i have two other clients attending Lunacon. Chris is an Aussie so he probably won't make it to cons stateside all that often, Charles Gannon is known to quiet a few from his days as a game writer.
( Schedules )

My beloved clients davefreer & jamesenge  have both had fan pages started for them. Dave and James await your arrival.

As with most things Facebook you'll need to be signed in before you join.

Well Con goers it is nearly that time again! Lunacon is almost here with a Guest of Honor who not only hasn't been in the USA in five years, is looking forward to his first stint as Guest of Honor. Dave Freer who has over a dozen books on the shelf ranging from epic fantasy to space opera to urban fantasy will be touching down in time to meet the people he writes for. Larry Dixon will be Artist Guest of Honor, the Special Guest will be Mercedes Lackey and Eric Flint will be Toastmaster.


Don't forget: Lunacon March 20-22, the greatest con this side of the moon.
davefreer 

This is what he said about it in his conference on Baen's Bar;

Tasmarin is a place of dragons. a plane cut off from all others worlds where dragons can be dragons, and humans can be dinner. It's a place of islands, forests, mountains and wild oceans, filled with magical denizens. Fionn -- the black dragon -- calmly tells anyone who will listen that he's going to destroy the place. Of course he's a joker, a troublemaker and a dragon of no fixed abode. No one ever believes him.

He's dead serious.

Others strive to refresh the magics that built this place. To do so they need the combined magics of all the intelligent species, to renew the ancient balance and compact. There is just one problem. They need a human mage, and dragons systematically eliminated those centuries ago. Their augury has revealed that there is one, and they seek her desperately. Unfortunately, she's fallen in with Fionn, who really doesn't want them to succeed. He has his own reasons and designs.

The part he hadn't worked out is that she will affect his plans too.  Chaos, roguery, theft, heroism, kidnapping, love, trouble and war follow. And chaos. Did I mention chaos?

If one were wanting to know when it will be available... Toni's Table in Baen's Bar would be the place to ask since I haven't been told yet. Dave can be found on his LJ davefreer on facebook, and of course on the
Bar in "Dr Monkey".

It is your last chance to vote in the P&E polls.
Dave Freer & Eric Flint are ahead in the Best SF/F Novel and Dave is currently near the top of the best Author ranks. Go vote!

In the other categories, friends of mine that I'm told were nominated included Sarah Hoyt, James Enge (for a short), Toni Weiskopf, Eric Flint,  and a few others who's names escape my feeble mind.


And I got my Arisia schedule:

272

Making Tropes Interesting

Paul Revere B

Literature

Sat 5:00 PM

Duration: 01:00

4

Bioethics in Theory and Practice

BU Suite (Regency Club)

Science

Sun 1:00 PM

Duration: 01:00

506

Grok, Hobbit!

Paul Revere A

Literature

Mon 12:00 PM

Duration: 01:00

The rest of the time i'll probably wander through the dealers areas, the bar, the con suite, the bar, the green room, the bar, the lobby, the bar, the room parites, and i may remember to sleep...




P.S.
Reading a good submission by someone I'm not familiar with take waaaay more time than reading a published novel by someone I'm not familiar with.