I am very, very pleased to announce that my short story, “For Want of a Nail” is on the Hugo ballot this year. I got to sit in the crowd at Norwescon and watch the Hugo nominations be announced, live. This was a lot of fun. Especially when my name went up on the screen […]
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The Tor/Forge blog has a Giveaway for The Half-Made World by Felix Gilman. I got to read an ARC of this novel and absolutely loved it. You want this book. Don’t wait. Go enter the contest right now.
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Look! My author copies of Shades of Milk and Honey arrived today. We are also eight days away from the release day of August 3rd. Not that I’m counting. To celebrate, I’m going to give away two signed copies of Shades of Milk and Honey. How do you win? Between now and August 1st post
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Shades of Milk and Honey will be released on August 3rd, which is just a month away– not that I’m counting… To celebrate that, we’re releasing the first chapter as a sample. You may download it to read in .pdf or .epub or read the sample chapter below. I will say that of your options, the
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The second story in my typewriter triptych is up at Shareable. Here’s a teaser: Playing Against Type Harold pressed his hand against his knee to stop it from jiggling. It gave him a chance to wipe the sweat off his palm, too. Never show fear in front of actors. “I thought we had the camera
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I have three stories that will appear on Sharable.net over the next three days. They are examining what it might be like to make a film in a future with an economy based on sharing and cooperation. Each story can stand alone but hopefully you get more out of them when they are read as
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This might seem like a silly thing to be pleased about, but I’m now a LibraryThing author, which just means that I have an author page and get a shiny yellow badge next to my personal account. So, to celebrate, I’m giving away an ARC of Shades of Milk and Honey on LibraryThing. Basically, you
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My short story, First Flight, is up at Tor.com. It has absolutely goooooorgeous art by Pascal Milelli, which looks enough like my actual grandmother that my mom was disappointed that she didn’t have earrings on. Why is it cool that she looks like my grandmother? Because she’s based on Grandma, even if the name isn’t
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My dear friend, the 2009 Campbell-winning, David Anthony Durham has ARCs of The Other Lands, his new book. And he’s giving one away! Okay. Here it is. My first The Other Lands giveaway. There may be more to come, but this one is purely from my own stash. I’m offering one of the three advanced
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AnthologyBuilder.com is this nifty site where authors can submit reprints and readers can create their own ideal anthology. In print. It’s great if you want to sample a bunch of people and prefer reading on paper than on the screen. I ‘ve got several stories up there and they are doing this cool promotional. All
We’re celebrating Shimmer’s tenth issue by giving it away for free ! We’ve got twelve fantastic new stories and an exclusive interview with Cory Doctorow that you won’t want to miss — and don’t let your friends and family miss out, either. Download your free copy today, or buy the lovely print edition and celebrate
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I have three version of Evil Robot Monkey to offer for your consideration as one of the Hugo nominees for Short Story. It was originally published in the Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, vol. 2 edited by George Mann. You may download a pdf of “Evil Robot Monkey“, illustrated by me. I do layout
Mike Brotherton, who taught the Launchpad Workshop, had a brilliant idea. A lot of people get their ideas about science from fiction, but the problem is that much of the science in fiction is really bad — like that whole exploding in vacuum thing. So he decided to put together an online anthology of science
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I failed to link to two of my twitfics up at Thaumatrope. There’s not any real way to do a teaser of fiction that’s only 140 characters long. So… This story from Christmas Eve is not safe for family. And the story from Christmas day is.
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Thaumatrope is a new twitterzine that delivers 140 character stories. You think that’s impossible? Check out horror story and see what you think. The first issue also has an interview with Scalzi and fiction by Kenneth Newquist. Oh, I’m particularly proud to be in the first issue because of this bit from the About page:
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