Ghost Talkers, the book I’m currently working on (not the next one out) is set in 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. So this… this is amazing. (Hat tip to Sigrid Ellis)
Silent film of the 1916 French Bayonet Championships Read More »
While in Seattle, Scalzi did this. So, my question is — Is this a declaration of war, or does he just want to borrow another dress. Rapier or iron, that is the question.
Is Scalzi declaring war or asking to borrow one of my dresses again? Read More »
Kater Cheek is joining us today with her novel Mulberry Wands. Here’s the publisher’s description. Susan never expected to find a corpse in her backyard, especially not one no larger than a doll. Her well-intentioned burial and investigation attracts the notice of the victim’s kin, who blame her for the murder and want vengeance. Griff just wants
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Last week, I posted a call for help finding a native Igbo speaker that could help me with some terms for glamour in Of Noble Family, the final Glamourist Histories novel. Thank you all for sending a bunch of generous folks my way. I wound up working with Ebele Mogo, president of the Engage Africa
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Karina Sumner-Smith is joining us today with her novel Radiant. Here’s the publisher’s description. Xhea has no magic. Born without the power that everyone else takes for granted, Xhea is an outcast—no way to earn a living, buy food, or change the life that fate has dealt her. Yet she has a unique talent: the ability
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I’m looking for a couple of beta-readers for a short SF story that’s about 7400 words. If you have time, I’d love to get your reader responses. Just drop your willingness into the comments here on my site and I’ll send the password along. Here’s a teaser. Wary of Iguanas by Mary Robinette Kowal
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Clinical trials have proven that sleeping kitties improve the viewer’s day in 94% of cases.
Arianne ‘Tex’ Thompson is joining us today with her novel One Night in Sixes. Here’s the publisher’s description. The border town called Sixes is quiet in the heat of the day. Still, Appaloosa Elim has heard the stories about what wakes at sunset: gunslingers and shapeshifters and ancient animal gods whose human faces never outlast the daylight.
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In the latest Glamourist History book, I have a discussion of glamour in different parts of the globe. One of the participants is a native Igbo speaker. Although she’s speaking in English during the conversation, I have a couple of phrases where she uses her own terms rather than the European ones. I’m looking for someone who
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Kameron Hurley is joining us today with her novel The Mirror Empire. Here’s the publisher’s description. On the eve of a recurring catastrophic event known to extinguish nations and reshape continents, a troubled orphan evades death and slavery to uncover her own bloody past… while a world goes to war with itself. In the frozen kingdom
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I am slightly calmer now, although I do keep looking over at the Hugo to make certain it is real. There are three questions people kept asking me after the Hugos. Who did your hair? – Dolly and Rhonda who were amazing and wonderful. Did you write the lyrics to the Retro Hugos song? – No. Those were
My Hugo acceptance speech plus thoughts on what it’s like to be given one. Read More »
In May of 1919, W. E. B. Du Bois published an essay called, “Returning Soldiers.” We return from the slavery of uniform which the world’s madness demanded us to don to the freedom of civil garb. We stand again to look America squarely in the face and call a spade a spade. We sing: This
History is repeating in Ferguson – Here, have some sources. Read More »
I am not terribly coherent, but “Lady Astronaut of Mars” received a Hugo tonight. Thank you, all of you.
You guys gave me a Hugo tonight! Read More »
Tonight at 8:00pm in London, I’ll be hosting the Retro Hugos with Robert Shearman. There’s an opening number. A 12 piece band. Sound effects. And a dress based on one from 1939. You can watch the entire thing streaming at http://www.ustream.tv/hugo-awards. I am spending most of today in rehearsal until my hair and makeup team arrives.
How to watch the Retro Hugos tonight, + my WorldCon schedule Read More »
E. Catherine Tobler is joining us today with her novel The Rings of Anubis. Here’s the publisher’s description. As the nineteenth century turns into the twentieth, the world looks to a future of revolutionary science and extraordinary machines. Archaeologist Eleanor Folley looks back to Egypt’s ancient mysteries and her mother’s inexplicable, haunting disappearance. Agent Virgil Mallory,
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