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Tag Archives: empire of dust
Building a Universe – The Psi-Techs
My Psi-Tech Universe has implant-enhanced humans who have telepathy to a greater or lesser extent, combined with other psi talents. My main characters, Cara and Ben are psi-techs. Cara is a top class telepath with a side order of empathy, … Continue reading
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Tagged crossways, empire of dust, Nimbus, psi-tech, psi-tech trilogy, psionics, telepathy
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Building a Universe – Power Structures and Personal Stories.
When I started to write Empire of Dust I didn’t really know much about my setting. I didn’t build my universe first and then people is and dream up stories. The people came first, and along with them a predicament. … Continue reading
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Tagged crossways, empire of dust, jacey bedford, Nimbus, psi-tech, psi-tech trilogy, space opera, SpaceX, trilogies, trilogy, worldbuilding
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The Geography of Words
Writing science fiction and fantasy involves worldbuilding. Sometimes we take a concept, strip it right down to basics and invent a planet where the sea is pink, the sky is upside down and the dominant life form has seven tentacles … Continue reading
An interview first published in SF Signal
I like doing interviews, especially when the questions are both thoughtful and taxing. Carl Slaughter presented me with an intriguing set of questions way back in 2016. I thought I’d revisit them. CS: Your first series is cyberpunk space opera. … Continue reading
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Tagged Carl Slaughter, crossways, empire of dust, interview, Nimbus, psi-tech trilogy, rowankind, Rowankind trilogy, SF Signal, Silverwolf, Winterwood
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Quantifying Success
A few years ago, Chuck Wendig posted to his Terrible Minds blog saying: ‘It Only Gets Harder Once You’re Published’. (http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2015/08/19/it-only-gets-harder-once-youre-published/) How true. That article really resonated with me. I wonder if authors ever get over the self-doubt thing. When … Continue reading
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My Other Journal in a Galaxy Far far Away
In 2008 I started a blog on LiveJornal (and later moved everything over to Dreamwidth, but that’s another story). These days I mostly keep Dreamwidth for book and movie reviews, but in those early days my blogs were much more … Continue reading
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Tagged blogging, Dreamwidth, empire of dust, LiveJournal, old journals, other blog, psi-tech trilogy, titles, writing
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The Long Haul
Now, here’s the thing… when you write a trilogy you are in it for the long haul. To all those people who write a single book, I salute you. It’s not easy. It takes dedication and effort. Now imagine you … Continue reading
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Jacey’s Quick Book Links
With the publication of Rowankind just a few days away (27th November), I thought I’d post links to all my books. Obviously the (not-so-hidden) subtext is, go out and buy them, but seriously folks, those advance orders for a new … Continue reading
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Tagged crossways, empire of dust, jacey bedford, Nimbus, psi-tech trilogy, rowankind, Rowankind trilogy, Silverwolf, Winterwood
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Character self-determination
There’s one of those little graphics floating around Facebook that says: Main Characters: You do everything you can to raise them right, and as soon as they hit the page they do any damn thing they please. Yes, fellow writers, … Continue reading
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Tagged Cara Carlinni, characters, empire of dust, Ross Tremayne, Winterwood, writing
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The Gift That Keeps on Giving
My first book, Empire of Dust, launched on 4th November 2014 from DAW and, boy, was I excited. I’d waited a long time for that moment. When I got the first review , from Publishers’ Weekly, no less, I read … Continue reading
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Tagged crossways, empire of dust, Nimbus, psi-tech trilogy, reading, reviews, rowankind, sci-fi, Silverwolf, space opera, Winterwood, writing
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What’s the Psi-Tech trilogy about?
Nimbus, the final book in my Psi-Tech trilogy, is out now. Who-hoo, I have five books out and this is the first complete trilogy. Sometimes big ideas start with a bang and arrive fully formed, sometimes they start small and … Continue reading
Happy Book Day To Me!
My new book, NIMBUS, is out today. Let me say that again because it never gets old. My new book, NIMBUS, is out today! It’s my fifth published book, and the third in my Psi-Tech universe. It represents a milestone … Continue reading
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Tagged ben benjamin, Cara Carlinni, crossways, empire of dust, Nimbus, psi-tech, psi-tech trilogy, publishing, science fiction, space opera, writing
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Due Process
My publishing process goes like this: The publisher offers a contract (negotiated by my agent) which may be for one, two or three books, and on signing I get half the advance. My agent takes the agreed cut and I … Continue reading
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Tagged crossways, empire of dust, jacey bedford, Nimbus, psi-tech, publishing, rowankind, Silverwolf, Winterwood, writing
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Worldbuilding for a Series
In the last blog I talked about Committing Trilogy, but glossed over the worldbuilding aspects so I could talk about them in this blog entry. I’m going to (mostly) talk about the worldbuilding involved in my futuristic SF trilogy, though … Continue reading
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Ten Quick Tips for Writers
Here are ten quick tips for writers (not necessarily in order of usefulness and not necessarily complete). Feel free to ignore what doesn’t work for you. Remember: ‘Follow no rule off a cliff.’ – C.J. Cherryh. Besides these are not … Continue reading
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Tagged empire of dust, jacey bedford, writing, writing advice
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Overnight Success in Only Sixteen Years
The beginning of my writerly story is lost in the mists of my childhood. I struggled with writing at school because, being a fluent reader (but not a writer) by the age of five, I was put into a class … Continue reading
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Tagged Artisan, crossways, empire of dust, jacey bedford, literary agents, Silverwolf, Winterwood, writing
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Pitfalls of Publishing, or Lest I Forget
I’m now in the fortunate position of having three books published by DAW, with two more due out in January 2017 and October 2017, but achieving a novel publishing deal took years from my first short story sale to a … Continue reading
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Tagged book deal, book one, book two, books, crossways, empire of dust, Silv, Winterwood
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Gotten, Tannoy, and Trug
Another milestone. I just hit send and emailed the manuscript for my fourth book to my editor. It’s 134,200 words long which is roughly the same size as Winterwood. Silverwolf is scheduled for publication on Tuesday 3rd January 2017. It’s … Continue reading
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Tagged crossways, empire of dust, fantasy, science fiction, Silverwolf, Winterwood, writing
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New Two-Book Deal
With Crossways less than 2 weeks away from publication I just got the go-ahead from my lovely agent (Amy Boggs of Donald Maass Literary) to announce this. I have a new contract with DAW for another two books to follow … Continue reading
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Tagged agent, ben benjamin, book deal, book three, book two, Cara Carlinni, crossways, empire of dust, Nimbus, psi-tech, Silverwolf, Winterwood, writing
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Book Cover: Crossways
Crossways, my follow up to Empire of Dust, is due out on 4th August, so with only a few weeks to go I thought I’d delve a little deeper into the cover art by Stephan Martiniere. Stephan did the gorgeous … Continue reading
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Tagged book cover, book two, cover, crossways, empire of dust, stephan martiniere
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On Delivering the Second Book
Empire of Dust came out in November 2014 and yesterday I delivered the final version of Crossways. Second books are difficult, mind bogglingly, scarily difficult. For starters, you never quite know how much backstory to filter in from the first … Continue reading
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Tagged ben benjamin, books, Cara Carlinni, crossways, empire of dust, psi-tech, publishing, writing
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Guest Blogs Roundup
25th November 2014 SF Signal’s Mind Meld http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2014/11/mind-meld-the-best-book-openings/ 16th November 2014 Guest Interview on Chuck Wendig’s Diabolical Plots http://www.diabolicalplots.com/?p=12558 Review on Jaine Fenn’s Tales from the Garrett. http://www.jainefenn.com/2014/11/review-empire-dust/ 6th November 2014 Chuck Wendig’s Terrible Minds blog – Five Things I … Continue reading
Mind melding
In which I take part in SF Signal’s Mind Meld on The Best Book openings. I’m in great company with other writers and readers. http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2014/11/mind-meld-the-best-book-openings/
Guest Interview on Diabolical plots
There’s a guest interview with me on the Diabolocal Plots Website which hosts the excellent Submission Grinder story nmarkets discovery tool. http://www.diabolicalplots.com/?p=12558
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The Three Letter Word
My son congratulated me on getting my three book publishing deal and we talked about the first book, Empire of Dust. He was interested in word counts, outlining and revision – the writing process in general. He’s in the middle … Continue reading
Guest Post on Book View Cafe
So pleased to have the opportunity to answer Nancy Jane Moore’s interview questions on the ever-wonderful Book View Cafe blog. Here’s the piece: Whatever Makes You Weird.
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Guest Post on Chuck Wendig’s Terrible Minds Blog
I’m delighted to be on Chuck Wendig’s Terrible Minds blog in his series: Five Things I learned While Writing… In this case it’s Five Things I learned while Writing Empire of Dust, and here it is: http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2014/11/06/jacey-bedford-five-things-i-learned-writing-empire-of-dust/ Thanks, Chuck, much … Continue reading
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Guest Post on Anne Lyle’s Blog
World Building From the Coffee Up is my new guest post on Anne Lyles’ blog here: http://annelyle.com/blog/2014/11/04/worldbuilding-from-the-coffee-up-a-guest-post-by-jacey-bedford/ Thanks for hosting me, Anne. And there’s a new review of Empire of Dust on Jaine Fenn’s Tales from the Garrett. Also – … Continue reading
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Tagged book, books, empire of dust, guest blog, publication, reviews, writing
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My Guest Post on Ben Jeapes’ Blog
Ben Jeapes did an excellent gust post here on my Live Journal blog a few months ago and now he’d invited me to guest on his blog. Here’s my post – about the value of critique groups. http://www.benjeapes.com/index.php/2014/10/everyones-a-critic/ Ben and … Continue reading
It’s real
Though the official publication day isn’t until 4th November a box of advance promo copies of Empire of Dust arrived this morning. Five hundred and thirty two pages of papery goodness in my hot little hands at last. I can’t … Continue reading
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Tagged empire of dust, publication, science fiction, space opera, writing
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Why I love my cover for Empire of Dust
When my editor, Sheila Gilbert at DAW, said she was planning to get Stephan Martiniere to do the illustration for the cover of Empire of Dust I confess it was a name I didn’t know. Turns out I was showing … Continue reading
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Tagged book cover, cover, empire of dust, science fiction, space opera
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Editing and Time Travel
Editing one book while writing the first draft of the sequel is as close as I will ever come to time travel. My first book, Empire of Dust, is due out from DAW on November 4th and while waiting for … Continue reading
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Tagged book, book two, Cara Carlinni, crossways, editing, empire of dust, novel number one, publication, writing
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How long is a novel?
As aspiring novellists we always receive conflicting pieces of advice. ‘A book should be as long as it needs to be,’ is always a good one, but it’s also generally sound advice that, ‘first time novellists should aim for a … Continue reading
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Empire of Dust
Empire of Dust – a Psi-Tech Novel, by Jacey Bedford, DAW 4th November 2014
Amazin’ Amazon
Empire of Dust – A Psi-Tech Novel by Jacey BedfordDAW, 4th November 2014 Whoo-hoo… really jazzed to discover that my upcoming novel (sans cover illustration unfortunately) is already up at Amazon for pre order. It’s not out until 4th November, … Continue reading
Scrivening
Jaine Fenn’s blog about Scrivener over at http://www.jainefenn.com/2014/03/scrive/ has prompted me to do a blog post about editing with Scrivener. I love Scrivener with a deep love. Karen Traviss recommended it at the beginning of last year and I thought … Continue reading
Thinking about Images
Great news. My debut novel is now scheduled for publication by DAW in November 2014. At the moment it’s called ‘Empire of Dust’, but that’s a working title and likely to change. My editor emailed last week and asked me … Continue reading
Editor Talk
A long chat with my editor on the phone yesterday to glean the changes she would like to Novel Number One – currently called Empire of Dust, but that’s likely to change. It’s mostly adding more worldbuilding information, dripfeeding in … Continue reading