by Melinda Snodgrass | Nov 23, 2019 | About Writing
I wanted to write and explain why I have reached this decision after spending my entire career as what some have referred to as a “New York author”. First allow me to give a huge thank you to the publishers, Tor and Titan in particular, and the editors, Patrick Nielsen-Hayden, Stacy Hill, Diana M. Pho, Miranda Jewess, Cath Trechman who have supported and whose insightful comments have improved my work over the years. I have great respect and sympathy for the situation in which they, and in...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Nov 9, 2019 | TV & Movies
Okay, so if you haven’t watched Rebels, and hate spoilers you might want to skip this post. *********************************************************************************************************DANGER WILL ROBINSON! SPOILERS AHEAD!!! ********************************************************************************************** So I keep watching the episode from season 2 called The Honorable Ones. Because I love, love, love Agent Kallus. Yeah, I’m a sucker for redemption...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Nov 1, 2019 | Blog
So I wrote these three urban fantasy novels under a pseudonym — Phillipa Bornikova because I didn’t want to risk reader confusion and these were really different from the Edge book and the Imperials books. For one thing they are in first person and they have vampires, and werewolves and elves, Oh My! After my beloved editor was taken ill the books fell into a black hole and the third book didn’t come out for several years. When I finally got a new editor both he and the...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Nov 1, 2019 | Blog
I wanted to give folks an update on getting Imperials back into print and the final two books available to readers. First the good news. I’m making really good progress on book 5 thought I’ve had to set it aside briefly while I revise the third Linnet Ellery book. (More on that in a separate post). Now the bad news. The publisher we had hoped would pick up Imperials didn’t bite because they don’t do reprints and wouldn’t put the first three books back into print....
by Melinda Snodgrass | Aug 15, 2019 | About Writing, TV & Movies
I love Star Wars. I know that probably sounds treasonous since I wrote for Star Trek, but truthfully Trek in its later iterations was just too clean, too antiseptic, too boring, frankly, for my tastes. Give me the world of rogues and scoundrels, Hutt mafia bosses, pirates, and cantinas that don’t look like a nightclub on Fifth Avenue; give me some grunge. Oh and space wizards, can’t forget the space wizards. Star Wars also has Darth Vader, Alexsandr Kallus, Kanan Jarrus, Han Solo, Hera...
