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Greetings from Arizona!
March 8, 2008
This weekend I'm the guest author at the Arizona
Renaissance Festival just outside Phoenix in the beautiful
Superstition Mountains--isn't that an appropriate setting?
Anyhow, I'll be blogging every day from the festival, and
maybe even upload some photos if the internet connection
cooperates! If you're in the area, please stop by--I'll be
by the gift shop on and off all day on Saturday/Sunday
March 8 - 9.
So much is going on! I'm on the third edit of the
manuscript for Dark Haven, which is coming along nicely,
with a few twists that even surprised me!
Had a lot of fun at a reading/signing at Malaprop's
bookstore in Asheville NC a few weeks back. I was one of
three speculative fiction authors (Philip Nero and David
Talon were the others), and we had a great time. Downtown
Asheville was really busy that night with a game and a
concert, and we all had challenges parking. Which, given
three sci fi authors, led to conjecture given the time
travel in Phil's novel about what would happen if you went
either forward or backward in time to snag a parking place.
Of course, things could get dire if we accidently met
ourselves coming back out to the car. We had to laugh at
ourselves--put three sci fi authors together and we invent
paradox parking!
I hope you've been checking out the Ghost in the Machine
podcasts. This month author Paul Kearney (Sea Beggars,
Monarchies of God, The Ten Thousand) and I get to chat
about everything from civil war re-enacting to battle
techniques throughout history and other fun stuff. Pamela
Cable is also one of my guests. She's not technically sci
fi/fantasy, but she writes a great Southern ghost story
(for some reason, ghosts just don't seem to stay buried
down here). So we talk about ghosts, the dark side of
religion and go from there. Ghost in the Machine is also
now available free through iTunes, and you can get the web
audio for new and archived sessions on
www.ChroniclesOfTheNecromancer.com
Speaking of which...many of my podcast guests will be
making guest appearances on my blog, and I'll be returning
the favor. I hope you caught Tony Ruggiero's recent
appearance--he writes about aliens, conspiracy and military
intelligence (yeah, right). I asked Tony for a few words
for the blog, and here he is...
"It was great to talk with Gail on her Ghost in the Machine
podcast:
http://gzmartin.audioacrobat.com/rss/gailzmartinpodcast.xml
When we got into the discussion about the conspiracy
concept—I knew we had hit some pretty significant common
ground. Conspiracy is pretty much in all of my writings as
well. I sometimes ask myself why that is and I think that
like myself, many others are really into the drama aspect
of someone else trying to take control of something or
someone. It's probably one of the top fears that a person
might have—the loss of control and what that does to our
ability to make rational decisions.
My vampire series is based upon the conspiracy of theU.S.
military and its use of vampires as a hit squad…think Anne
Rice and Tom Clancy… and my science fiction of Alien
Deception and Alien Revelation is about the American
political system being controlled by an alien race.
Conspiracy runs rampant in both story lines and in many
cases there are two types: the traditionally bad guys of
conspiracy and the perhaps not so bad guys of a secondary
conspiracy which involves the choice of the lesser of two
evils which is always entertaining.
In my mind, conspiracy is basically the left handed cousin
of conflict. And as Gail put it, conspiracy theories keep
us guessing about the real motives of characters. I agree
and without them…well we would probably be out of the
writing biz...and looking over our shoulder more often.
Tony Ruggiero, Author of the Team of Darkness Declassified
Files
www.tonyruggiero.com"
See ya at the Arizona Renaissance Festival!
Gail
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