Jim C. Hines - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Welcome to my humble MySpace page! I work on a 56K dial-up, so you won't see a lot of bells or whistles here.

I'm experimenting with privacy settings to block a recent surge in spam friend requests. I figure if you can't guess my last name, you're either a spambot, or else you really shouldn't be allowed on a computer.
Anyway, I'm a fantasy author with DAW Books. My humorous fantasy novel Goblin Quest was published in November of 2006, followed by, Goblin Hero , in 2007. The third book in the trilogy, Goblin War , just came out in March of this year.
My second series is ... hard to describe. Imagine fairy tale princesses crossed with Charlie's Angels, and you'll start to get an idea. The first book, The Stepsister Scheme should be out in January of 2009, and will be followed by The Mermaid's Madness and Red Hood's Revenge.
I also edited an anthology for DAW, Heroes in Training . One of the stories (The Children's Crusade, by Robin Bailey) is currently on the final Nebula ballot.

My full bibliography is here .
Other links of interest:
My web site, at http://www.jimchines.com
My LiveJournal , which is updated far more frequently than my MySpace journal.

My Interests

Fantasy, writing, editing, science fiction, publishing, books.

I'd like to meet:

I'm always interested in meeting new readers. I'd also love to connect with folks in the publishing industry -- writers, editors, agents, and so on. And I've found a few old friends I'd lost touch with, which is always nice.

Television:

I've got two young children, which means these days I tend to wander around the house humming the theme to Johnny and the Sprites or Blue's Clues. Though at least they give me an excuse to watch Kim Possible.

Books:

Lately, I've been reading books by Julie Czerneda, Joshua Palmatier, Simon Haynes, Lois McMaster Bujold, and Jenn Reese. I've also got a huge "To Be Read" stack sitting by the bed. This doesn't include various research reading I'll be doing for the next book I plan to write.I've started posting reviews of the books I read over at LiveJournal, under the review tag .

My Blog

Declaring War on The Name of the Wind

Attention, Mister Patrick Rothfuss, author of the bestselling debut novel The Name of the Wind [Amazon | Mysterious Galaxy]. I wish you to know that I have read your book and have a great deal of resp...
Posted by Jim C. Hines on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:13:00 PST

Happy Bookday to Me!

It's official. Goblin War [Amazon | Mysterious Galaxy] is now available, which means the goblin trilogy is complete. All three books are done and in print. I have a trilogy. Whoa. It makes me want to ...
Posted by Jim C. Hines on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:14:00 PST

Janet Kagan

As reported in the SFF.net newsgroups today: "Sorry to have to report the news that Janet Kagan died today of acute Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). She was on hospice care toward the end...
Posted by Jim C. Hines on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:38:00 PST

Mysterious Galaxy Affiliate of the Month

Mysterious Galaxy was kind enough to invite me to be their Affiliate of the Month for March. What does that mean? Well, if means if you click on the link, you'll get to read a (hopefully) entert...
Posted by Jim C. Hines on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:03:00 PST

Two more books to DAW!!!

I've been stressing out a bit, trying to prepare for the March 4 release of Goblin War. Apparently my publisher decided to reward me DAW is buying two more books from me! I'm currently doing ed...
Posted by Jim C. Hines on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:54:00 PST

Goblin Book Giveaway

I mentioned a little while back that I had a few fun ideas for contests as we approach the release of Goblin War [Amazon | Mysterious Galaxy]. As of March 4, I'll be the proud author of a complete tr...
Posted by Jim C. Hines on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:08:00 PST

Goblin War Preview

Starting off the day on a good note, I saw that SciFiChick had listed Goblin Hero [Amazon | Mysterious Galaxy] as one of her top SF/F picks of 2007! (Her review of Goblin Hero is here if you're curiou...
Posted by Jim C. Hines on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 06:07:00 PST

A Goblin Christmas Carol

(For those who haven't read the books, Golaka is the goblin chef.) On the twelfth day of Christmas,Golaka made for meTwelve dwarven drumsticks,Eleven pixie meat pies,Ten orcs all greasy,Nine wizards b...
Posted by Jim C. Hines on Mon, 24 Dec 2007 11:44:00 PST

Vintage, by Steve Berman

Earlier this week, I finished reading Steve Berman's debut novel Vintage [Amazon | Mysterious Galaxy]. In a nutshell, Vintage tells the story of a lonely goth boy who discovers that a brush with deat...
Posted by Jim C. Hines on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 01:01:00 PST

Interview with the Agent

For those of you who are interested, I've posted an interview with my agent, Steve Mancino, over on LiveJournal: http://jimhines.livejournal.com/326122.html Steve is the one who sold my goblin series ...
Posted by Jim C. Hines on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 05:43:00 PST