I was at a convention in one of my Regency gowns, and someone asked, “What did black people wear?” The answer is that the clothing expressed a wide range of styles depending on a person’s station and where they lived but— since I think that question came from a place of wanting to do historical
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Sandra Tayler is joining us today with her picture book project The Strength of Wild Horses, now on Kickstarter. What’s Sandra’s favorite bit? SANDRA TAYLER I didn’t intend to write a second picture book. I thought my daughter only needed one story. That was foolish because we all need hundreds of stories at various stages of our lives.
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Back in 2009, Vylar Kaftan wrote a blog post about diversity statistics in her own fiction. Basically, she did a survey of her fiction, tracking gender, race, sexual orientation, age, class, and ability/disability. I thought this was a darn fine idea, so I did the same, using her template. I actually had a pretty decent
Jodi McIsaac is joining us today with her novel, Into the Fire. Here’s the publisher’s description. Cedar McLeod would like nothing more than to return to Tír na nÓg, help rebuild the mythical kingdom, and start a new life for herself and her daughter, Eden. But peace isn’t what Cedar finds after being reunited with her little
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People write to ask me about how to get started in puppetry a lot. There are schools you can go to, but most puppeteers get their start by interning with a puppet company. One of my favorites is looking for interns. So if you’re in the NYC area and want to learn more about puppetry,
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Sean Williams is joining us today with his novel, Twinmaker. Here’s the publisher’s description. M. T. Anderson meets Cory Doctorow in this teen debut from #1 New York Times bestseller Sean Williams, who also coauthors the Troubletwisters series with Garth Nix. When a coded note promises improvement—the chance to change your body any way you want, making
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I’m in Iceland on a visit. While showing some friends around, we stopped in Hallgrimskirka and got lucky, because their organist was practicing. Here’s a bit of it. And this is how we spent the last two days. More photos tomorrow, I’m betting, after we return from Skaftafell and the Glacial Lagoon.
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Wesley Chu is joining us today with his novel The Deaths of Tao. Here’s the publisher’s description. The sequel to The Lives of Tao. The Prophus and the Genjix are at war. For centuries they have sought a way off-planet, guiding humanity’s social and technological development to the stage where space travel is possible. The end
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I am smug. Really, insufferably smug. Why, you might ask, do I have this excessive sense of pride? I will tell you. First, you should know about #TheRealRothfuss game. For two weeks, Pat Rothfuss and five impersonators will all try to convince you that they are the real Pat Rothfuss on Twitter. At the end
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Max Gladstone is joining us today with his novel Two Serpents Rise. Here’s the publisher’s description. In Two Serpents Rise by Max Gladstone, shadow demons plague the city reservoir, and Red King Consolidated has sent in Caleb Altemoc—casual gambler and professional risk manager—to cleanse the water for the sixteen million people of Dresediel Lex. At the scene
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Beth Bernobich is joining us today with her novel, Allegiance. Here’s the publisher’s description. King Leos of Károví, the tyrannical despot whose magic made him near immortal and who controlled a tattered empire for centuries through fear and intimidation, is finally dead. Ilse Zhalina watched as the magical jewels that gave him such power reunited into
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Hey all you folks coming in for World Fantasy. You know you want to go to the British Science Fiction Association meeting, right? I’ll be there being interviewed by Virginia Preston. HISTORIAN. The fact that she’s a historian and I write historical fantasy puts no pressure on me at all. None. I’m totally not at
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If you’re having trouble finding ethnically diverse SFF fiction for young readers, there’s a sale you should know about. Tu Books is having their fall Friends & Family Sale. They’re offering 35% off all titles and sales on select e-books too. They do great books that are exactly the sort of thing any young SFF
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