News

March 2008: Interview on Fast Forward in Washington, D.C.
Video: www.fast-forward.tv/video/Show_211.mov
Audio only (slightly better quality): www.fast-forward.tv/audio/Audio_211_64k.mp3
Audio only (lower bandwidth, better for dial-up): www.fast-forward.tv/audio/Audio_211.mp3

Feb. 23, 2008: Austin American Statesman article
www.statesman.com/life/content/life/stories/books/02/23/0223moon.html

Every week: check out the new pictures in the Photo Gallery

2008 releases
February: Victory Conditions, the fifth book in the Vatta series, will be released in hardcover.

Heinlein Award Winner--2007
At a gala ceremony in Kansas City on Saturday, July 7, 2007, as part of the Centennial celebration of Heinlein's birth, Elizabeth Moon was announced as the recipient of this year's Robert A. Heinlein Award. Elizabeth could not be present to accept the award but Eleanor Wood, SFWA agent, accepted for her.

The Robert A. Heinlein Award was established in 2003 by Dr. Yoji Kondo and several prominent science fiction writers, including the late Charles Sheffield, to honor outstanding published works in hard science fiction or technical writings that inspire the human exploration of space. Prior recipients include Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, Greg Bear, Jack Williamson, Michael Flynn and Virginia Heinlein.

Elizabeth's comments on the award, from her LiveJournal:

Color me amazed/delighted/gobsmacked/humbled.

Wow. Back when I was an SF-struck 9th grader reading every book I could get my hands on...when I wrote a term paper on science fiction in 11th grade for a teacher who thought it was all junk and I could not possibly have read all those books, I never dreamed that someday I'd be a published writer of same and win any award at all, let alone one named for the writer who first sucked me into the genre. AND on the centennial of his birth.
How cool is that!

August 2007: Commentary on Creating Characters and on Revision

July 2007: Chris Merle uploaded his podcast (about 30 MB) interview from last year, in this post on the Conestoga website.

2007 releases
February:  Engaging the Enemy available in a mass-market paperback edition.
March:  Command Decision released in hardcover.
September:  Moon Flights, a short story collection, will be released by Nightshade Books in both a limited edition and hardcover.

September 2006
The Sallyport, Rice University's alumni magazine, has a featured article about my writing and the land.

April 2006
Engaging the Enemy is available in hardcover.

December 2005
The Georgetown Public Library System has chosen The Speed of Dark for the community reading program in 2006.

November 2005
A few great days in Barcelona: take a look at the pictures.

August 2005
Marque and Reprisal is available in a mass-market paperback edition. The next Vatta's War book, Engaging the Enemy, will be out in the spring of 2006.

July 2005
The Commentary page has two new essays: FAQ: Our Wildlife Management Project and Want to Write for Publication?

The Writers' League of Texas "Writing Across Texas" TV interview I did earlier this year is now available as a 30 minute DVD (#19 in the series.) Contact the Writers' League of Texas: 1501 West 5th Street, Suite E-2, Austin, Texas 78703, or email wlt@writersleague.org or see their website at www.writersleague.org for ordering details (and a list of other DVDs available.)