David Anthony Durham
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Western Massachusetts
Birthday:
March 23, 1969

David Anthony Durham

 
David Anthony Durham
I had one. I've been writing, folks, working on Book Three. I've a long, long way to go still. I mean a long way to go. But that's not anything I haven't budgeted for. I'm still planning on delivering this one with about the same gap as I had between books 1 and 2...
Tarrell Childs
Tarrell Childs
Yup. Sometimes talking out loud and letting the back brain work is all you need.
Yesterday at 9:08pm
David Anthony Durham
5 hours ago
David Anthony Durham
Amazon.com just released it's editor's choices of the top books of the year. (Credit goes to io9 for alerting me to this.) Within that, they have a list featuring their top SFF books. Guess who's on it?Well... Ah... Cherie Priest...
Debbie Smith Daughetee
Debbie Smith Daughetee
Of course you are! I just started reading your new one -- I'm right back into hating to put it down. Luckily I'm flying today -- so plenty of time to read!
Yesterday at 10:34am
David Anthony Durham
David Anthony Durham
Thanks Debbie! Fly safe!
5 hours ago
David Anthony Durham
My kids have gone mad. They've turned into glazed-eyed zombies. They've shut out the physical world and ventured into a realm in which shouts, prods, invitations to dine and threats of punishment cannot reach them. What's caused this?Rick Riordan and his creation Percy Jackson. They're the culprits...
Carey
Carey
That's so cool! My husband and I read the Percy Jackson series about 6 months ago (even though we're both 30 and don't have any kids...). They're good stuff. I've been on a YA kick lately, but my all time favorite YA books are Tamora Pierce's Song of the Lioness series.
November 2 at 9:04am
David Anthony Durham
David Anthony Durham
I'll keep the Pierce books in mind. They might need something new very soon!
November 2 at 10:24am
David Anthony Durham
Yes, it's finally there. The Other Lands is now downloadable at Audible.com! I'm very happy about this, as it seems like a lot of the folks that enjoyed The War With The Mein did so by listening to Dick Hill's narration...
CV Rick
CV Rick
AWESOME. I'll be able to download it and listen to it this month.
November 1 at 11:57am
David Anthony Durham
David Anthony Durham
Very glad. Please do!
November 2 at 10:23am
David Anthony Durham
I was supposed to be cutting down on the teaching. More time spent writing, getting Book 3 done, Jedi-Knight training, stuff like that. Leaving the tenure track has helped that a bit, but then again... I've continued to teach at the Stonecoast MFA Program. (What can I say...
Debbie Smith Daughetee
Debbie Smith Daughetee
You better keep teaching at Stonecoast!

Authors: Margo Lanagan (Black Juice), Larissa Lai, Stephen King
Yesterday at 10:38am
David Anthony Durham
4 hours ago
David Anthony Durham
The first part of a two part interview just went up at OF Blog of the Fallen. Larry asked great questions, substantive ones that range away from just talking about the book and get into lots of other stuff.Check it out: HERE.Also, his earlier review of The Other Lands is HERE.
David Anthony Durham
Hey, I'm doing a reading next month in Boston. It's a triple-header actually, arranged by Jeff VanderMeer and also featuring Paul Tremblay. If you happen to be in Boston on the night, here's the info...
David Anthony Durham
I know I should get back to publishing related posts, and I will soon. But considering the day I can't help post another Durham family related photo. We took this photo yesterday on a nice walk (Maya handling the camera.) That's me and Gudrun, of course...
David Anthony Durham
October 27 at 10:47am
Ari Cohn
Ari Cohn
Congrats, David.
October 27 at 11:23am
David Anthony Durham
I'm just wondering because it's starting to seem like she's famous. The woman in question is, of course, my wife Gudrun...
David Anthony Durham
David Anthony Durham
I'm all for that. The shiznit monetizing, I mean.
October 26 at 12:23pm
David Anthony Durham
Herewith, another book recommendation. This one is in the literary fiction category, just in case you've got a hankering for some good short fiction...The book is called The Boat and the author is Nam Le. I was lucky enough to meet Nam at BEA a couple years back. This was before his book came out...
Jamie
Jamie
Sounds interesting. Just finished Denis Johnson's Tree of Smoke. Big book. Big ideas. Struggled about a 3rd of the way in but worth it in the end.
October 27 at 7:59am
David Anthony Durham
I'd read a bit of Kindred before, but recently I sat down with it again and read the whole thing. Very glad I did...
David Anthony Durham
I just remembered that I forgot to link to a recent Mind Meld I took part in over at SF Signal! This one was about what "book first introduced you to fantasy". I'm in there with Brandon Sanderson and Pat Rothfuss and Kate Elliott and Ken Scholes and many more.You can take a look HERE.
Moses Siregar
Moses Siregar
Very cool.
October 17 at 2:15pm
Marie Johnson
Marie Johnson
it was really interesting to read what books introduced certain authors to fantasy, all my favourites were listed, when i was growing up there wasn't many people i knew that read fantasy. I will read any type of book, i love reading, but fantasy is closest to my heart.
October 20 at 2:31am
David Anthony Durham
David Anthony Durham
Marie,

Funny that you mention not knowing many other people reading fantasy when you were growing up. I basically feel the same. It was something I did on my own. Thing is, as an adult and a writer, I hear from people all the time that also read fantasy first. It seems to have been important in so many people's lives, even if it was a genre that most of felt like we were finding our way to alone.
October 20 at 6:33am
David Anthony Durham
We woke up this morning to white stuff falling from the sky. Rather nice. Our first dusting of snow for the season. I took a short walk out to the lake, enjoying the quiet, the feeling of change in the air. Nice way to start the day.This morning it's just me and the boy...
David Anthony Durham
Just arrived, and Maya's already well into it...
David Anthony Durham
David Anthony Durham
Oh, wonderful! I hope you enjoy them.
October 30 at 12:14pm
David Anthony Durham
I got some clarification about the status of the audio version of The Other Lands (Acacia, Book 2). The disc version is, of course, available. (HERE, for example.) But it's the Audible.com version that people most often ask me about...