1632: A (Manly!) Soap Opera
In the 1632 novels, you get—more or less—The Big Picture featuring the Stars of the Story. In the 1632 anthologies, you get basically more of the same, simply with a narrower and tighter focus and […]
Writing a Profiler
Bjorn Hasseler In 2017, I slushed a story called “Sunshine.” Susan Diana “Sunshine” Moritz appeared in some early Gazette stories and was mostly known for being Willow Moritz’s younger sister and a much less sympathetic […]
Writing Reed & Kathy Sue Burroughs
By Bjorn Hasseler The one hard and fast rule about a story is “don’t bore the reader.” The rest are recommendations—because you can find exceptions to all the other “rules.” But if you’re just starting […]
Some News to Share
Hail Friends, I will begin with a little reminiscing, then share some news with you. I became the Art Director of the Grantville Gazette back in 2008 with Volume 15 after my dear friend Paula […]
Amish Country and 1632
Following up on my recent post about the Frontier Culture Museum, I ran across this related post I started last winter. Given how succesful I felt the museum visit was, I think my instinct that […]
The Frontier Culture Museum
I have driven past signs for “this “The Frontier Culture Museum” off Interstate 81 in Virginia many times and have often thought about stopping there, but we were always in a rush to get somewhere. Finally, on the way home from DragonDon 2024, we had the time. As an added bonus, we had perfect weather. […]
Getting Started Writing
Getting Started Writing Bjorn Hasseler I don’t remember where the idea for Neustatter’s European Security Service came from. I remember going to the library—the New Carrollton branch of the Prince Georges County, Maryland […]
Book Club Questions: 1632
Book clubs are fantastic! We would love to hear about any 1632 book clubs out there. Here is a set of questions to help out any book clubs interested in discussing 1632. If you have suggestions for improving these, just let us know in the comments!
Mannington is Grantville is Mannington
aka: Mannington in 1630s Germany What does that mean? In 2000, Baen Published Eric Flint’s alternate history novel 1632. Eric lived in Granville, West Virginia when he was working for the unions in the 60s […]
Subscriber Access 1632 Magazines
As a subscriber, you have access to online issues of both Eric Flint’s 1632 & Beyond and the Grantville Gazette. There are twelve (12) volumes of the Grantville Gazette available at a time, starting with […]
Hello world!
If you’ve ever built a WordPress site, you’ll have seen that new sites are set up so the first post is “Hello world!” Sitting here, about to delete this post, I decided what the heck […]
Remembering Kevin and Karen Evans
I want to take the time to remember two of the Gazette’s favorite authors. In December, right before Christmas, Kevin Evans passed away suddenly. Then, shortly after that, his wife and writing partner, Karen Carnahan […]
What is this? About the Grantville Gazette
Written by Grantville Gazette Staff and published at the beginning of the Grantville Gazette magazine. The Grantville Gazette originated as a by-product of the ongoing and very active discussions which take place concerning the 1632 […]
Editor’s Foreword: Grantville Gazette 7
Eric said, in the preface to Grantville Gazette Volume V: “Sigh. Not one of these stories deals with Ye Big Picture. Not one of them fails to wallow in the petty details of Joe or […]
Eric Flint’s Foreword: Grantville Gazette Volume 6
Volume 6 of the Gazette is coming out three months later than we’d projected. There are three reasons for that, which are closely connected. The first reason is that our copy editor fell behind, for […]
Eric Flint’s Foreword: Grantville Gazette Volume 5
Well—hallelujah—we managed to get Volume 5 of the Gazette out pretty much on schedule, about four months after the publication of Volume 4. As I said in my preface to that issue, I’m hoping to […]
Eric Flint’s Foreword: Grantville Gazette Volume 4
Some remarks on the contents of this fourth volume of the Grantville Gazette: Once again, I had to go through my usual dance, trying to decide which stories should go under “Continuing Serials” and which […]
Eric Flint’s Foreword: Grantville Gazette Volume 3
First, I need to apologize for the long delay between the publication of Volumes 2 and 3 of the magazine. That was due to several factors, only one of which-my own heavy writing schedule this […]
Editor’s Foreword: Grantville Gazette
The Grantville Gazette originated as a by-product of the ongoing and very active discussions which take place concerning the 1632 universe Eric Flint created in the novels 1632, 1633, and 1634: The Galileo Affair (the […]
Eric Flint’s Foreword: Grantville Gazette Volume 1
The Grantville Gazette originated as a by-product of the ongoing and very active discussions which take place concerning the 1632 universe I created in the novels 1632, 1633 and 1634: The Galileo Affair (the latter […]