Using all caps because it’s FRANCE and holy crap FRANCE I’m in FRANCE how ’bout some FRANCE with those FRENCH fries? (Which for some reason here are called “amusing fries”. I fail to see the joke.) Anyway, am here for the Imaginales festival in a town called Epinal in eastern FRANCE. I’m posting photos and [...]
Archive for May 2011
No Nebula this year
I didn’t win, alas. That said, if I gotta lose, losing to Connie Willis is the way to go, lemme tell you. And I had a great time at Nebula Weekend, though I was only there for Saturday and Sunday (it started Thursday). I have pictures, but they came out very dark for some reason, [...]
…and then it hits me.
I’ve been nominated or shortlisted for (or won) nine major awards. Nine. Awards. Nine. The Hugo (Nominee) The Tiptree (Shortlist) The Prix Imaginales (Nominee) Gemmell Morningstar Award (Finalist) Locus Awards (Finalist) Nebula Award (Nominee) Goodreads Readers’ Choice Awards (Nominee) Romantic Times Book Reviews Award, Fantasy (Winner!) Crawford Award (Shortlist) ::bogglety:: I kinda don’t know what [...]
After
Just sold another short story! This one has gone to a forthcoming YA dystopian anthology edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, to be called After. As it was described to me, the premise is to focus on the dystopias that might result long after an apocalypse, not the immediate aftermath, and explore what life [...]
The Tough Guide to Fantasyland’s Exotic Locales
More smart stuff from other people. Rising star of the SFF genre Shweta Narayan posted this hilarious (but also sadmaking) homage to Diana Wynne Jones’ Tough Guide to Fantasyland — the Tough Guide to Fantasyland’s Exotic Locales. She explains, My cold-addled brain has been sort of fixated on context, of late, namely the racist/Orientalist/fetishizing contextual [...]
Futurestates
I was given a heads-up on this by unusualmusic over at the Racebending blog, and was so wowed by what I saw that I want to share. With everybody. I blog a lot about how frustrated I am by the lack of social realism in SFF. If even half the energy SFF creators expended on [...]
Awards Update
The award nominations keep coming for The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms… wow. I’ve been in a perpetual state of “Huhwha?” for the last few weeks. The new nomination is for the Prix des Imaginales, which I’ll find out about in a few weeks when I go to the Imaginales Festival in France. It’s for Best Translation, [...]
Cheaper Kingdoms, Better Worlds
Good news, folks: to celebrate the Nebula and Hugo nominations for The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, Orbit is dropping the ebook price to $2.99! You can find it for that price at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Mother’s Day is coming; if your mom’s the type who might like family drama and mythic intrigue with a [...]
