My new hobby site: Keeping the Door

July 26th, 2009 • all posts

Good news everyone! I’ve just launched a new hobby blog. Dubbed Keeping the Door, it’s a site devoted to science fiction and fantasy books.

The title of the site refers to one of the least known, but perhaps most important of the nine Roke Island master mages in Ursula Le Guin’s classic Earthsea series: The Master Doorkeeper. An enigmatic fellow, the Doorkeeper is perhaps best known for denying access to the School of Magic to the young Sparrowhawk — until the beginner mage realises he must first surrender any wizard’s most closely guarded secret first. Can you guess what it is?

Basically I launched the site for two reasons. Firstly, for a long time I’ve felt that I wanted to write about science fiction and fantasy literature. It’s such a fascinating area. When you’ve got amazing books coming out like Patrick Rothfuss’s The Name of the Wind, you just feel like you have to tell someone about them, why they’re good, and why, above all, they must read them!

But secondly, I have constantly found myself behind the news when it comes to fantasy and sci-fi releases. For example, I didn’t even know that Robin Hobb’s latest book, The Dragon Keeper was out until I saw it in Dymocks last week. This has happened to me now several times with Robin Hobb, and it’s a situation I’m not happy to have continuing :)

So, to rectify both issues, I’ve starting Keeping the Door.

I will aim to update the site with one review per week, and a few news stories as I get time. The site also has a new Twitter account, @keepingthedoor, which I will use to interact with readers, authors and publishers. I’ll also put some stuff on my normal @renailemay account occasionally if I think it merits wider distribution.

A good question is: How will this change my ZDNet.com.au work? The answer is, it won’t. Keeping the Door will be a non-commercial hobby site I’ll do in my out of work hours … don’t expect me to respond to queries or post during the work day :)

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