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Welcome to the Blog
And welcome to 2010! May it be happy and healthy, peaceful and prosperous, super and silly for all of us!
Immediately to the left of this message is the cover for THE LAST HUNT, the long-awaited conclusion to The Unicorn Chronicles, which will be published by Scholastic on June 1, 2010.
The art is by Petar Meseldzija, who is, I think, completely awesome.
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Monday, January 25, 2010
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Holy Moses, do we have a new stack of sample chapters for you guys!
Here's a list of the titles for which my mighty webmaster has just posted first chapters:
Aliens Stole My Body
Don't Fry My Veeblax!
Eyes of the Tarot
Farewell to Earth
The Ghost in the Third Row
Revolt of the Miniature Mutants, The
Snatched from Earth
Space Station Ice-3
Spirits and Spells
There's an Alien in My Backpack
There's an Alien in My Underwear
Too Many Aliens
Waiting Spirits
Just click on the "Books" tab at the top of the page, click on the title you're interested in, and you'll be on your way.
HAPPY READING!
Bruce
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Friday, January 08, 2010
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For you fans of The Unicorn Chronicles: We just posted a new sneak preview for THE LAST HUNT over on the UC website. You can find it here: Chapter 4
Hope you enjoy it!
BC
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Wednesday, January 06, 2010
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Just added - sneak previews (the entire first chapters) for The Mischief Monster and The Naughty Nork, books 4 and 5 of the MOONGOBBLE AND ME series. Also the full first chapter of The Monster's Ring.
You'll find them under the BOOKS button.
Happy reading!
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Friday, January 01, 2010
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Best wishes to you all for a truly wonderful new year. May your 2010 be happy and healthy, peaceful and prosperous, and filled with unexpected delights!
For my own part, I am still trying to wrap my mind around the fact that this will be the first year since 1992 that I'm not trying to write an installment of the Unicorn Chronicles!
Bruce
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009
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I pulled an all-nighter last night, but managed to answer ALL of the copy editor's queries, as well as most of those from the main editor, as well as massage in a number of my own changes, before hitting SEND on the final-revision-before-typesetting version of LAST HUNT.
Next time I see it, it will be in page proofs.
One step closer to publication!
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009
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Working like a madman on the final revisions on HUNT. I have to finish turning it around today. Wish me luck!
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
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I've been in Bangladesh for the last two weeks, speaking at the American school in Dhaka. It's been a fascinating and enlightening experience, and I have really loved being here.
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Sunday, October 11, 2009
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It's finished! It's finished! THE LAST HUNT is finished!
I wrote the final words of the first full draft at 6:45 this morning, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where I am speaking at the American School. I carried the project here with me, and having been working on it every day and now, at last, it is done.
I began work on the first part of this story (which became DARK WHISPERS) in 1999. The two books are really one long story, so I've been pushing toward this finish line for ten years now.
I can't believe I'm done!
(Well, except for revisions . . .)
BC
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
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Recently Kevin Mobley, who is a voice actor for Full Cast Audio, interviewed me for a podcast. If you'd like to hear it, this is the spot to visit: Kevin interviews Bruce Coville
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
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I have sequestered myself at home to try to finish THE LAST HUNT. I'm nearly there, barreling into the final sequences. A few more days of pushing and I think I'll finally have a full draft. Watch this space for updates!!
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Wednesday, July 01, 2009
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A Song for Iran . . .
I have been following the situation in Iran with intense interest.
The government of Iran is despicable. The people are beautiful.
Here is a song to celebrate their courage: A Song for Iran
BC
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Saturday, May 02, 2009
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This spring the travel season has been even more intense than usual, with major speaking trips to Hong Kong and Alaska. Right now I'm in Poland, for the last major trip of the season. It's gorgeous here - the city has a huge number of trees, and is far greener than I had anticipated.
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009
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Here's a nice online review of The Monster's Ring that just appeared. This made me happy, since it's an unusual thing to have a new review of a book that's 25 years old. (Egad! Where did the time go!?!)
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008
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SNEAK PREVIEWS!
As a holiday present, we just posted sneak previews of the Prologue and First Chapter of LAST HUNT on the Unicorn Chronicles website.
Hope you enjoy 'em!
BC
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Sunday, December 14, 2008
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The event at Harding was (based on audience response) a great success. Many thanks to our gracious hosts.
I want to give you guys a reminder that it's not too late to order autographed books for gifts. We can send things out by first class mail up until the 19th and they should arrive for holiday giving. But don't delay - the sooner the better at this time of year.
To order online click on the "Books" tablet at the top of the homepage. You'll find little green shopping carts next to the titles that are available for ordering. Go crazy! (Once you've ordered, there's even a space on the shopping cart form to fill in the name of the person you want the book autographed to.)
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Thursday, December 04, 2008
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On Saturday night (December 6th) Harding College, in Searcy, Arkansas,
will be hosting an unusual event: a live performance by four members of
the Full Cast Audio group: Daniel Bostick, Carmen Viviano-Crafts,
Tamora Pierce, and, um . . . ME! We'll be performing short stories and
excerpts from books by Tammy and me, and possibly a couple of
surprises. Tammy and I will be autographing books at the end of the
performance.
It's open to the public, and tickets ($15) are still available, so if you're in the area, come on over!
For more info click here: Harding College Event
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Sunday, July 13, 2008
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DARK WHISPERS: Not only in the house, but in the stores!
Well, the official on sale date for DARK WHISPERS (Book 3 of the Unicorn Chronicles) was supposed to be August 1, but it turns out that Amazon.com started shipping it this week. And friends have been reporting occasional sightings at Barnes & Noble stores around the country. So I guess it escaped early. (Those crazy unicorns!)
Hope y'all will enjoy it!
BC
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Thursday, June 12, 2008
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DARK WHISPERS is in the House!
Yesterday afternoon I received my first advance copy of DARK WHISPERS: Book 3 of the Unicorn Chronicles.
Oh, is it ever beautiful!!
I am a happy author.
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Sunday, April 27, 2008
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Spring Travel
So, the spring travel season is nearly over. This is the time of year when I disappear from my neighborhood and become a stranger to my family so I can zip all around the country (or sometimes the world) speaking to kids in schools. So far this year I've been in California, Arizona, Massachusetts, Maryland, and Connecticut, with trip to Illinois and Pennsylvania still to come. Oh, yeah - also three weeks in China!
This is all fun, but meanwhile the work piles up at home, and mail goes unanswered, and I generally get behinder and behinder in the rest of my real life. But I can't really complain (except about how sucky the airlines are these days) because I love doing it.
Still, it's always a bit of a relief when it's over so I can start catching up on all the things I've let slide while I was traveling.
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Monday, April 21, 2008
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A lovely award for THE PRINCE OF BUTTERFLIES!
I just received word that my picture book, THE PRINCE OF BUTTERFLIES, has received the 2008 Giverny Award, which is given annually to a children's science picture book. For more details, here's a link:
http://www.15degreelab.com/award08.html
I'm especially pleased about this for two reasons. First, while I think PRINCE is one of my very best books, it did not receive much attention when it was first published, and didn't do as well as we had hoped. So to have this sudden confirmation of the book's worth some years after its release is lovely indeed.
Second, the book is a fantasy. So it delights me to have the distinguished scientists who select this award confirm its solid ecological/science foundation.
BC
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Sunday, December 30, 2007
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Bad, bad blogger!
Man, I have not done a very good job of posting here this last year.
Ah, well. Like most years since I started Full Cast Audio, it's been wildly busy. Not that things weren't busy before that. But now that I'm trying to do two things full time, it's a bit harder to keep it all under control.
WRITING: Right now I'm trying to finish the 5th "Moongobble and Me" book, which is called (for the moment, at least) The Naughty Nork. It's going to be a bit longer than the previous ones, and I hope it will, as a result, be even more fun. I've got it half written and all outlined, and just have to find time (and self-discipline!) to get it finished.
As soon as it is done I'll shift right back to Luster and get cracking on the fourth book for the Unicorn Chronicles, which I am bound and determined to finish this year. It's going to be called The Last Hunt (which, of course, was what I thought was going to be the title for Book 3, but I had to shift the title over . . .)
I have three weeks before my first speaking trip of the year. I love doing school appearances, but it's when I hit the road that things start to really pile up here in the office, so I always flinch a bit about it, too.
Well, that's it for the year's end report, at least for now.
BC
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Saturday, January 27, 2007
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I spent some time today going over page proofs of the fourth book in the "Moongobble and Me" series, which is called THE MISCHIEF MONSTER. I think it's the funniest one yet. But what do I know . . .
I don't know if I've told you guys, but my pal Tamora Pierce and I read to each other from our current project almost every day when we're both in town. (Tammy and her husband Tim moved to Syracuse last summer.) Right now she's reading to me from MELTING STONES, the fabulous novel she's written for Full Cast Audio to record, while I've been reading to her from the stories I'm working on for ODDEST OF ALL, a collection that Harcourt will be publishing this fall. I think this works for Tammy - I know it works for me, since I made a major breakthrough on one of the stories because of something she said to me during one of our reading sessions.
BC
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Tuesday, January 02, 2007
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Happy New Year, Everyone!!
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Sunday, December 10, 2006
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Okay, I don't think I actually posted it here, but I've finished the third book of the Unicorn Chronicles! It's now going to be called DARK WHISPERS (at least, that's the current title).
For more details, check out the info at www.unicornchronicles.com
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Thursday, November 23, 2006
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Happy Thanksgiving to you all!
- BC
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Wednesday, November 22, 2006
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The Shopping Cart is Ready!
This, methinks, is very cool. Our webmaster has put the finishing touches on the shopping cart. Now you can order the books on line, and include the name to which you want each one autographed.
Hope you find it useful!
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Wednesday, November 22, 2006
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Just back from a writing retreat where I was working on (what else?) the third book in the Unicorn Chronicles. (I wouldn't dare admit it if I had been working on anything else!)
It felt great to be away from the office and focus totally on writing. Reminded me that that was what I used to do!
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Friday, November 17, 2006
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Okay, okay, so it's been umpty-kabillion years since I posted anything here. Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa!
Actually, while it's mostly my fault, I did try to post twice, and both times there was a problem with my link. So I'm only going to take part of the rap for this. Even so, as many people (especially my webmaster!) have pointed out to me, I should either use the blog, or get rid of it.
So: I'm using it!
Mostly I've been on the road for the last few months, with speaking gigs in Texas, Wyoming, Washington state, Connecticut, New Jersey, Texas (again), Iowa, and I forget where else. I'm on the road again now, but for a different reason: I'm hiding away for a few days to try to get some writing done!
Wish me luck . . .
BC
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Monday, April 24, 2006
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Oh, man, it's been a long time -- too long -- since I added anything to this blog. That's mostly because the travel madness continues. I'm in Pennsylvania right now, down in the gorgeous Brandywine area, doing four days of school presentations.
Saturday I performed with the Syracuse Symphony, reading my story "The Golden Sail" while the orchestra played gorgeous music to enhance the emotional punch of the story. This is one of my favorite things in the world to do.
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Monday, March 13, 2006
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March is another travel month. I'll be on the road soon, speaking in Marcellus (a town near Syracuse) on Tuesday, then heading for NYC on Wednesday. I'll be speaking at a school in New Jersey on Thursday and having some business meetings on Friday, then driving home on Saturday. I always try to do some writing while I'm in travel mode, but the truth is, it's kind of tricky.
What's on the plate right now? Well, I'm putting the polishes on the fourth Moongobble and Me book, THE MISCHIEF MONSTER. I actually wrote this one last March. Kathy has the art all finished (and it's great!), but I have to do the final tweaking on the text. I'll let you know when we have a pub date.
Since I'm working in that world right now, it seemed like a good time to start the next MOONGOBBLE; in fact, I wrote the first chapter just a couple of days ago.
And, no, that doesn't mean I've set aside work on THE LAST HUNT! I'm pushing toward four hundred pages now. . .
-- Bruce
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