The Okal Rel Universe in evolution and in the world.

 
Met new Edge-ite Tina Hunter at Con-Version 25 in Calgary. She's the one with dark hair on the left in this picture of my panel in the "Lit/books/reading" stream entitled "Women who don't kick butt. Can they still win hearts and minds?" Tina has published short fiction with Edge. Sandra Fitzpatrick is the participant on the right. The book she has in front of her is a copy of the first edition of Opus 2 (the 2nd Okal Rel anthology) which she undertook to get signed by the Calgary contributors (including herself). Now it is my job to get the B.C. contributors to sign it and send it on to collector Peter Halasz. I suggested this panel topic based on my experience with Sam O'Pearl, the "girl next door" type of Demish princess who enters the Okal Rel Saga in Part 6: Avim's Oath. Although a princess (meaning she is more than 50% Sevolite), Sam is small potatoes in the Demish hierarchy. And although she is a bit of a tom-boy adventurer in the context of the parochial neighborhood where she grew up, she is way out of her league in that regard on Gelion. But she's fun, resilient and most of all a feeling, breathing character with plenty of life challenges to work through.

Labels: Con-Version 25, Edge, Lynda Williams, Sandra Fitzpatrick, Tina Hunter

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Righteous Anger interview with Edge's Justyn Perry is featured on Edge Podcasts this week. Be patient after clicking! It might take a moment to load up! In this podcast I answer questions about:

• How much of me is in my characters


• Where do I write


• Mapping Okal Rel to real life religion - in the abstract


• Realism in combat as something more interesting than over-the-top violence


• The ACTION, ACTION, ACTION falacy for books - books as books not as second rate movies or video games


• The question regarding technlogy is not how to get more: We have it, what are we going to do with it? How about social engineering challenges.


• How do you live with the enemy?

Labels: Edge, interview, Justyn Perry, Morality, podcast, Power, Religion, Righteous Anger

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Pleased to see the Righteous Anger page on on the Edge website getting dressed up with commentaries.

Labels: Edge, Righteous Anger

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