I've been sick lately, especially yesterday, so I'm going to be slow to respond to...pretty much everything. But with the new Harry Potter movie and book coming out soon, I wanted to remind people about this:

Mapping the World of Harry Potter, a collection of essays by SF/fantasy authors on Harry Potter, from BenBella Books that came out January 2006. My essay was "Neville Longbottom: the Hero With a Thousand Faces."


The other essay I did for BenBella was "Don't Make Me Tongue You: John Crichton and D'Argo and the Dysfunctional Buddy Relationship" in Farscape Forever, which also has essays by Jim Butcher and rachelcaine.

jonquil has a great post here, on the most recent fanfiction plagiarism issue. She says it better than I would, and I'm really getting way too tired of people using this issue as an excuse to bash fanfiction to be at all rational on this point.

My policy on fanfiction for my novels has always been: I can't say that I'll read it, but I'm enormously flattered whenever anyone does it. Putting that much work into something, because you enjoyed what I did, I take as a wonderful compliment.


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I'm really busy finishing up the SGA book this week (or trying to, cross your fingers) and getting ready to leave for WorldCon on Sunday, so I'm not going to be around LJ much if at all. I'll try to do some catch up once I get back. And again, I wasn't given any programming slots at WorldCon, so most people probably aren't going to be able to catch me there unless by pure luck. I will be signing stock in the dealer's room.

Also, wanted to remind people about BenBella Books' Smart POP series. I'm in two of them, Farscape Forever (my article is "Don't Make Me Tongue You") and Mapping the World of Harry Potter.

And I am still going to put The Element of Fire online, probably starting in October, hopefully. City of Bones and The Death of the Necromancer are also out of print, but I'm not sure what I'm going to do about them yet.

Oh, and good news for once, Eric Marin just let me know that there's a nice review up of Wolf Night at Tangent Online.

ETA: wow, I screwed up that HTML. Should be fixed now.

I just got the word that my SG-1 story "Archeology 101" will be in issue #8 of Stargate Magazine.

Other stuff I have coming out soon:


The Gate of Gods in November.

The paperback mass market edition of The Ships of Air in November.

Stargate Atlantis: Reliquary in December/January.

I have an essay in Mapping the World of Harry Potter, another BenBella pop culture book. My essay is "Neville Longbottom: the Hero With a Thousand Faces."

The Farscape pop culture book is already out: Farscape Forever. My essay is "Don't Make Me Tongue You" about Crighton and D'Argo.

I also have two fantasy short stories, one in an upcoming issue of Black Gate and another in the Tor anthology Elemental, which might be out in December or April, depending on when it gets scheduled.

I think that's it. I'll post more specific links when things come out or go up for preorder.

The Publishers Weekly review for The Gate of Gods:

At the start of the final volume in Wells's imaginative and complex Fall of Ile-Rien trilogy (after 2004's The Ships of Air), her resourceful and witty heroine, Tremaine Valiarde, and a ragtag band of followers have the magic of the Viller spheres to help resist the almost invincible invading Gardier. Unfortunately, too many pieces of the puzzle remain missing for them to effectively defend what's left of the country of Ile-Rien, let alone liberate the rest of it. When the sphere-entrapped sorcerer Arisilde sends them a spell that eventually leads to "a train station for world-gates," Tremaine and her cohorts may have finally found a way to drive the Gardier out of Ile-Rien. New readers are advised to start with the first in the series, The Wizard Hunters (2003), as an acquaintance with numerous characters and previous action is essential.

Imaginative and complex, yay! Resourceful and witty, yay!

Also, and this feels very surreal to me, I got some more confirmation this morning that I'll have a Stargate: SG1 short story in an upcoming issue of Stargate Magazine to launch my Stargate Atlantis book Reliquary. We don't know why they want to launch a Stargate Atlantis book with a Stargate: SG1 short story, but hey, it's promoting the book, which is a concept that's sort of foreign to my experience, so I'm looking forward to it.


ETA: I didn't realize this was up for preorder yet, but I've also got an essay in the BenBella Harry Potter Smart Pop book: Mapping the World of Harry Potter. I've got an essay on the character of Neville Longbottom. It's coming out this January.