Tor UK's website gathers a ton of writing tips from Tor authors, including a few really good ones. But the standout is from Stormdancer author Jay Kristoff, who offers the following:
Gene Wolfe's Out of Print Classics Now Available as e-Books
Gene Wolfe was just named the 2012 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master. But that's not the only excellent news — Tor Books is reissuing 19 of Wolfe's classic books, which were out of print, in e-book formats. Including The Urth of the New Sun. And Peace, which has a brand new afterword by Neil Gaiman. Details, including …
It's Carl Sagan's birthday! Time to party like the starstuff that we are.
Happy birthday, Carl Sagan! The legendary astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist and science educator would have been 78 today. To celebrate, we've rounded up a handful of our favorite Sagan posts and curated some stellar content from other websites that are honoring him today. Feel free to contribute in the comments!
Goodbye Joe Kubert, Comic Book Titan
Yesterday pioneering cartoonist Joe Kubert passed away at the age of 85. Kubert was famous for creating and defining such characters as the hard-as-nails Sergeant Rock, the supernatural crime-fighter Ragman, the DC Comics stalwart Hawkman, and the caveman Tor, whose prehistoric adventures were catalogued in Kubert's…
Tor will serialize John Scalzi's next Old Man's War novel online
Anybody who loves serialized stories and episodic dramas will be excited to learn that Tor is experimenting with publishing the next John Scalzi book first in serialized form, as a set of e-books, and then later in collected print and e-book editions — similar to the way that comics come out in single issues and are…
Location Changed! Come hear io9's Charlie Jane Anders read in NYC with…
If you're in New York tomorrow evening, you should stop by the Soho Gallery for the Digital Arts around 6:30, when Charlie Jane Anders will be reading from her novelette "Six Months, Three Days" with Lost Everything author Brian Francis Slattery. This is part of the long-running and illustrious New York Review of Science …
DRM is not the future: Tor goes DRM-free for all e-books
Starting in early July, the whole Tor/Forge e-book catalog will be free of Digital Rights Management (DRM) — which means you'll have an easier time copying them from one device to another. And it also means that Tor's books will be available from e-book retailers who only stock DRM-free books.
Words of Wisdom from Walter Mosley: If publishers tell me which genre…
Good news! Walter Mosley, best known for his Easy Rawlins novels, will be publishing more science fiction next year — he has a series of SF novellas coming from Tor, whom he describes as "THE science fiction publisher." They'll be packaged as one or more flipbooks.
Read an excerpt from "Deathless," Catherynne M. Valente's Soviet update…
Scary figures from Russian folk tales cruising around in Soviet-era Russia, wreaking political and magical havoc? Only Catherynne M. Valente could write that story, and she has - in her new novel Deathless. Read an excerpt!
Afghanistan's strangest gift to one U.S. soldier: an awareness of the…
A soldier comes home from Afghanistan with a strange gift — she can see ghosts. How did Deborah Coates' Wide Open manage to win a three-book deal with Tor?
