by Melinda Snodgrass | Feb 28, 2021 | Blog
Folks, I know we had hoped to release Currency of War in February, but one member of the staff was trapped in the Republican apocalypse that befell Texas and was without power for a week. So it’s going to be a few more days. Please be patient and understanding with us. Life in the time of Covid and climate change has made everything so much more difficult.
by Melinda Snodgrass | Feb 16, 2021 | Blog
I thought people might be interested in reading the speech I gave at the 2021 Life the Universe and Everything conference. So I’m going to post it here. Please excuse any odd phrasing or formatting, it was to add me in the delivery. Very strange to give a speech on Discord where you have no feedback from the listeners. Life in the Time of Covid has made us all very adaptive. Anyway, here it is. (I attempted to center the title, the work from which it was derived and the author of said...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Jan 12, 2021 | Blog
We are getting close. Here is a sneak peak at the cover of the upcoming fourth Imperials book Currency of War. It will be out in February. I’ll update once I have the actual date when it goes live. Such deep thanks to Alexi Vandenberg and the staff at Prince of Cats Literary Productions. I completed this novel over two years ago, but then hit a hiccup with my then publisher. Actually I’m really happy things worked out the way they did because now I get to have Elizabeth Leggett do...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Jan 6, 2021 | Blog
I am beyond joyful. We turned Georgia blue. We flipped the Senate. It’s stunning to contemplate what this means. The symbolism alone is overwhelming. Reverend (Senator-Elect) Raphael Warnock pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church where Martin Luther King led the fight for voting rights and human dignity. John Lewis — a lion of the civil rights movement was a parishioner at that church. He is buried across from the church. Reverend Warnock is the first black Democrat ever elected to the...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Dec 19, 2020 | Blog
This all started because Gareth Powell, a really terrific British science fiction writer, suggested that we post pictures of what lurks on our desks and hash tag it as #writersdeskcompanions. I took a picture of the most interesting things on my desk — the boxes containing my gaming dice, my lovely kaleidoscope that I got on a trip to Big Sur, a crystal paperweight and the famous Dumb Stick from the Star Trek: TNG writers room. After puzzling everyone on Twitter with this post I realized...
