Networking Confessions at The Magic District
In which I reveal my greatest fear!
Networking Confessions at The Magic District KEEP READING
My Wiscon Schedule, part deux
OK, finally seems to be solidified, though some of the events on this keep skeeting about like greased pigs. Thus far we have: Writers’ Workshop, Fri 9:00AM – 12:00PM. I’ll be running a group of four aspiring novelists. Yay! Forces Beyond Our Control: power, identity, and magic in fantasy, Fri 4:00 – 5:15PM. This is a reading I’ll be doing with fellow writers Alaya Dawn Johnson, Margaret Ronald, and Doselle Young. What will I read? Uh… still deciding on that. NOT ANOTHER F*CKING RACE PANEL, Fri 9:00 – 10:15PM. I’m the moderator for this one; the panelists will be K.
My Wiscon Schedule, part deux KEEP READING
100K available for preorder!
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 it’ll sell out or the world economy will collapse or the price of paper will surge or nanotech will turn us all into gray goo sometime within the next 9 months… you can now preorder The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms on Amazon!. And it’s actually coming
100K available for preorder! KEEP READING
Go see “Sleep Dealer”!
Just saw this film and it was phenomenal. Go see it! (No nuanced critique, sorry; no coffee yet.)
Go see “Sleep Dealer”! KEEP READING
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 shit. OK you can use it but don’t tell her I told you to. YOU WANT TO BUY IT DON’T YOU.
MY COVER LET ME SHOW YOU IT KEEP READING
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 on his quest through the magical underworld of London as he tries to find out who a) killed him, and b) brought him back to life. And… (grr) it’s good. I mean (snarr) really good. So good that (gnash) I’m finding myself… well, a bit
Seething envy — uh, I mean, love and admiration! KEEP READING
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 blogosphere. But I also just felt like sharing. ETA: And because this post continues to get hits months later, folks might be interested in Part 2, which was posted at the Magic District, and part 3, written a few months later. Some of this is
Describing characters of color in writing KEEP READING
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 BOOK IS ON AMAZON!!! …kinda. It’s not searchable on the US Amazon; I found it because it’s searchable on the UK Amazon and the US one is linked to that. Or something. Anyway, you might wanna bookmark that sucker; it’s slippery.) As for why it
New Post on the Magic District…
…and behold, the Birthday Duck! (Which isn’t really what the post is about.)
New Post on the Magic District… KEEP READING
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 behind “Big Brother” and “Deal or No Deal.” Each week, a different company lays off an employee. …because I’m frankly speechless with revulsion.