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KGB Reading Tonight
Tonight is David’s first reading in the USA. If you dare to brave the rain, he hits the stage at Manhattan’s KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street tonight, March 19th, at 7pm.
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Reading
David wants to thank the organizers of last night’s reading and everybody who came out to the KGB bar on a wet New York evening. The event, including the after-party at a local Chinese restaurant, was...
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Podcast Interview on Adventures in Scifi Publishing
David is interviewed on Adventures in Scifi Publishing this week. Those tuning in will also hear a Mike Resnick teaser, Tobias Buckell responding to listeners’ questions, and Lou Anders of Pyr Books...
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Hackensack Appearance
David is special guest at this month’s meetin of the Science Fiction Association of Bergen County, July 12, 2008. If interested, stop by Barnes & Noble at The Shops at Riverside, 1 Riverside...
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Comic-Con International in San Diego
David is looking forward to Comic-Con International this summer. First, there’s a signing in the signing area Saturday, July 26th from 5:00 to 6:00. Afterward, David will participate in a...
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Comic Con Reports
David is at Comic Con International in San Diego this weekend (as you may have guessed from the previous post), and blogging about the experience. Take a look over at davidkeck.livejournal.com.
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August
David is hard at work on A King in Cobwebs the follow-up volume to In the Eye of Heaven and In a Time of Treason, taking advantage of the last few weeks before teaching picks up again in the Fall (all...
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Calgary for World Fantasy
David is flying to Calgary, Alberta, Canada for this year’s World Fantasy Convention, October 30-November 2. The latest draft of the convention program promises an opportunity to see David moderating a...
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Progress Report
The third book in Durand’s story is slowly coming together with about twenty thousand words to go. My work on the third book has been slowed considerably by the demands of family (a three-year-old girl...
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Summer-y
Every summer, I write as hard as I can (before school snatches my time and attention away for another year). This year, I hoped to reach the end of A King in Cobwebs, but I’ve come up a little short....
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Update
A quick update: I’m working on the last few pages of King in Cobwebs as I write these words. My predictive powers have been profoundly limited these last few years, but I see considerable reworking...
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Toronto
It looks like I’ll get a chance to sit down with Steve Lundin (Steven Erikson) in Toronto at Ad Astra at the beginning of April. Steve and my wife are guests of honour out there — my wife, a writer in...
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Book 3: Status Update
I thought it might be worth saying, I managed to get through an end-to-end draft of A King in Cobwebs (Dave’s Third Book). There are a couple of seriously rocky bits in the middle where my...
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Heading to Game of Thrones Gala Premiere
I will be playing arm candy for my wife tonight at the Game of Thrones premiere tonight. It’s entirely possible that I will see a real live actor! Watching TV in Avery Fisher should be cool enough by...
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Ad Astra Winding Down
We had a lovely time in Toronto this weekend. Although I attended as an unbilled babysitter, I had a good laugh with Ed Greenwood and Steven Erickson in my solitary panel appearance. (Ed Greenwood is a...
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100 Pages Edited…
Keck reaches page 100 in revision of King of Cobwebs After rereading my two books and making copious notes (which was an unusual experience, ask me about it someday), I’m 100 pages into my revision of...
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Web Comics on Suvudu
Your author defeats the powers of procrastination! I’ve been in talks with Suvudu.com to produce a series of web comics, starring the cheerful monsters of my fevered imagination. Cartooning was a...
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De-Tangled to 170
Keck manages to reach 170 pages of clean text. (He thinks). Using a shiny new (borrowed) Surface, I have fought my way through to page 170 of A King in Cobwebs despite. Although 170 is a nice...
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Page 207: The Strange Effects of Fits & Starts
Keck rewrite reaches page 207 Writing in fits and starts has some peculiar side effects. While scenes will have a deceptive internal consistency, the motives and reactions of characters will often fit...
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For Every Thing, Turn, Turn, etc.
Keck considers repetition and style… We all possess habits of speech. (Impressionists need a few handles to get ahold of). In writing, a similar set of habits follows us. On the larger scale, favorite...
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