OK, so the author name is wrong and there’s no cover image and for some reason Amazon seems to have pre-tagged it as “Chinese fantasy” (O.o)… but I imagine all these things are fixable. Anyway, if you reeeeeeeally really really want to make sure you get your hands on a copy, and you’re terrified that [...]
Archive for April 2009
Go see “Sleep Dealer”!
Just saw this film and it was phenomenal. Go see it! (No nuanced critique, sorry; no coffee yet.)
MY COVER LET ME SHOW YOU IT
I’ve been sitting on this for a few days now, bouncing in virtual little-girl excitement, struggling to hold it all in. But now at last, at last I can share the joy!! Like it? Then bop over to the Orbit blog to tell Art Director Lauren Panepinto that she is the shit. Except don’t use [...]
Seething envy — uh, I mean, love and admiration!
Am currently reading Kate Griffin’s A Madness of Angels, start of a magnificent urban fantasy series that’s far more China Mieville than Jim Butcher. (No offense to Butcher, whose stuff I like too; just noting that he’s kind of more typical of the genre than CM.) The story follows an “urban sorcerer” named Matthew Swift [...]
Describing characters of color in writing
Some examples from my own writing, submitted for your consideration. Not a claim of correctness or The Best Way or anything of the sort. Just my way. And yeah, this is in part inspired by a certain very lengthy discussion of race, representation, and respect in the SF/F community that took place recently in the [...]
100K update
…I had kind of mentioned this to friends and in passing, but hadn’t posted about it yet because there was still some up-in-the-airness going on. Anyway tho’, the official release date for The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is now February 2010. February 25, specifically, at least according to Amazon. (Quiet squee at the fact that MY [...]
New Post on the Magic District…
…and behold, the Birthday Duck! (Which isn’t really what the post is about.)
OMGWTFBBQ
Discuss… The Fox network is making a reality show out of the troubled economy. An upcoming series titled, “Someone’s Gotta Go,” lets employees of a small business decide which one of their colleagues will be laid off. Fox says it has no air date yet for the series, which is being developed by the company [...]
Authors… in… SPAAAAAAAACE!!!
…Well, not exactly. But as close as we can get without becoming astronauts or paying $5K for the privilege. I’m a-goin’ to Launch Pad! Bwhuh? you say. To which I reply, from the Launch Pad website: Launch Pad is a NASA-funded education/public outreach effort supplementing Mike Brotherton’s space-based astronomical research. Our budget allows us to [...]
You are likely to be eaten by your unfinished wordcount.
This. Is too funny. Go read it. My only regret is that now I get to follow this awesome post with my own tomorrow. -_- Since I never got to play games like this as a kid (no computer, though the family did have a Pong unit, go figure), I figured there had to be [...]
