Posts tagged: Scott Westerfeld
Coming to Town: Scott Westerfeld for Afterworlds at Quail Ridge Books, interviewed by Mur Lafferty
Posted on 2014-09-23 at 14:36 by montsamu
Scott Westerfeld came to prominence a decade ago with his award-winning and best-selling dystopian young adult series "Uglies", then set his sights on a middle grade alternate history of Steampunk "Clankers" and gene-splicing "Darwinists" for his "Leviathan" series, a fantastically-illustrated (and narrated, by Alan Cumming) adventure-romp through WW1-era Europe by diesel-powered mech walkers, modified whale airships, and (perhaps) even stranger methods. It's been 3 years since Goliath concluded that series
Read more...Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged afterworlds, mur lafferty, nanowrimo, quail ridge books, Scott Westerfeld
September newsletter: John Hodgman, tiltExpo, HMLT, Stuart Rojstaczer, Kim Harrison, John Darnielle, The Escapism Film Festival, Scott Westerfeld, and more!
Posted on 2014-09-05 at 10:00 by montsamu
Vol 4. No 9. September 5, 2014: The first Friday of the month has no fewer than five events to pique your interest, and the first week of the month has already brought the first of five six! seven! new books by North Carolina authors that will hit stores in September.
Let's start with those events happening today (Friday, September 5):
- While most festival events are on Saturday and are free, the Bookmarks Festival in Winston-Salem, NC does have a pair of ticketed "Eat and Greet" sessions on Friday