In which I provide a compendium of links to the guest blogs and interviews I did to promote the release of Eagle in Exile (on-sale date March 22, 2016), including Scalzi’s The Whatever, Mary Robinette’s My Favorite Bit, Tor.com, SF Signal, SFFWorld… Lots. Lots. Even more than this time last year, for Book One, Clash of Eagles. Growth is good.
2/17: SF Signal’s Mind Meld: The Secret Sauce of Alternate History. A dozen alt-hist authors, including moi, expound on what makes good alternate history, how we research and write, and which books we like.
http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2016/02/mind-meld-secret-sauce-alternate-history/
2/22: I am interviewed by the great Paul Semel about Eagle in Exile, research, what my coworkers at NASA think of all this, and… Romans in space?
Exclusive Interview: Eagle In Exile Author Alan Smale
3/15: What’s my favorite bit of Eagle in Exile? Mary Robinette Kowal knows…
My Favorite Bit: Alan Smale talks about EAGLE IN EXILE
3/18: My Dear Readers feature for Del Rey, featured on Suvudu.com. It’s all about maps. Because the map is the territory.
Dear Readers: A Letter from Alan Smale
3/17: Podcast: I am interviewed by The Week in Geek on Fox Sports 1280AM, down there at the Market of the Mud. I mean, New Orleans.
3/22: Podcast: I talk to the Functional Nerds about working for NASA, Eagle in Exile, singing high energy vocal music with The Chromatics, and much more:
3/22: “Five Oddball Books about Time Travel by Brits”; my feature for Tor.com about those timey-wimey weirdos across the pond. Oh wait.
3/22: Here, I’m on John Scalzi’s “The Big Idea”, being more thoughtful than usual about the philosophy of What I Wrote. This turned out to be my vision statement for the whole trilogy. (But no real spoilers.)
3/31: In which I am interviewed by Sally Janin of The Qwillery about Eagle in Exile, my characters, the publishing biz, and dining with the dead. We had a lot of fun with this one.
http://qwillery.blogspot.com/2016/03/interview-with-alan-smale-author-of-the.html
4/1: Interviewed by Lauren Samer of Inverse about concepts and characters, inspiration, TV, and my writing-future.
https://www.inverse.com/article/13541-alan-smale-prefers-alternative-history-asking-the-prophet.
4/1: I talk with Andrea Johnson of SF Signal about short fiction vs. long, maps, The Chromatics, and the engines that will take us to Mars. “History is Cool!”
4/6: On the Campaign for the American Reader, I take the Page 69 Challenge. As with Book One, it’s surprising how pivotal Page 69 is in Eagle in Exile.
http://page69test.blogspot.com/2016/04/eagle-in-exile.html
4/13: And to round out this baker’s dozen of promo, I am interviewed by Matt Mitrovich of SFFWorld about Eagle in Exile, flying, great historical walls, and whether what-if writers can really enjoy the Superbowl.
Woo-hoo! That was quite a Book Release Month…!
Alan Smale 