Joe Beernink
Author of NOWHERE WILD, NOWHERE HOME
Daily Archives: February 19, 2011
When I sat down with Stieg Larsson’s The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, I expected it to take me a week or so to finish. I got it in hardcover around Christmas (which I almost never do) by accident when I clicked the buy button on Amazon.com without checking to see what edition I was ordering. Oops. My wife and I had just watched the the Swedish version of The Girl… Read More
As much as any other series in the last five year, SM Stirling’s The Change series struck a chord with me. In fact, I think it was shortly after reading the first few books in this series back in 2008 that I decided to start writing again. Dies the Fire, the first book in The Change reintroduced me to the world of post-apocalyptic fiction that I had first seen with Stephen King’s… Read More
I wrote one chapter this week. In a book I had already finished. Okay, it’s not done, however I didn’t think I’d be writing entirely new chapters for Army of the Risen. But after cutting out four entire chapters, I wrote a new one. I also edited a bit this week, and am about 40% through this pass now. Hopefully the rest of the book goes faster, because it’s taking an absurdly… Read More
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