More! More French! Ha ha ha! And Podcastle.

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I did another reading for Podcastle! This time it was British Canadian author Amal El-Mohtar’s love story And Their Lips Rang with the Sun. This was simply a delicious story to read; it had “mouth-feel”, for lack of a better way to describe it. I’m no actor, but the words demanded that I try; this was not a story that could be read plainly. So let me know what you think! Also, it’s official: French rights to The Broken Kingdoms (book 2) have just sold to Calmann-Levy, the folks who bought book 1. No word still on when the French […]

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It’s Not the Same Story

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My staycation continues. It’s amazing that I can suddenly watch so much TV. I don’t watch much under ordinary circumstances, and when I’m in deadline mode I only turn the thing on to play video games for stress relief. Thus I’m usually horribly behind on just about any show that’s “hot”. I’m just now about to watch the first season of “Heroes” and the third season of Doctor Who… yeah, I know. But when people ask me how I find time to write… well, that’s how. This usually applies to movies, too. I think I’ve missed Iron Man 2; don’t

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Old SF Books I Want to See Made into Movies

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Hi, folks. I’m enjoying my not-quite-intentional staycation in the wake of completing The Kingdom of Gods — not quite intentional because I found out at the last minute that I wouldn’t have a class to teach for the summer, and staycation because I badly needed a vacation but can’t really go anywhere right now. But it’s been fun! Among other things, have reorganized my writing space and bookshelf. In the process, I’ve been stopping frequently (because I can!) to re-peruse some of my old favorites. And I ran across a couple that I not only recommend, but would dearly, dearly

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Characters of Color Fantasy Faceoff!

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‘Ware spoilers! Hi folks! At lo this Wiscon past, the Con or Bust community held the first annual “Characters of Color Fantasy Faceoff”, a bracket-style popularity contest. Yeine, Sieh, and Itempas from The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms did well! In fact, at one point Sieh even beat Itempas, which I know would make our little trickster god very, very happy — SIEH: Damn straight it makes me happy.

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Short Story News

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I’m working on one! News at 11. I sold one! “The Trojan Girl” has sold to Weird Tales, a very classy print market I’ve been trying to break into forever. This was a story I wrote a while back, trying out the concepts I’m thinking about using for the YA cyberpunk story. Specifically it concerns a gang of tough, hardscrabble AIs risking an alliance with a rival gang in order to capture a young program who may hold the key to self-actualization and a new level of sentience. Uh… yeah, I’ve never liked the term “cyberpunk” for this. A friend

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Book Rec Post

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I’ve been writing so much lately that I haven’t had nearly as much time for reading as I usually do. That’s one of the reasons I treasure the subways in NYC so much — if I were a driver, I wouldn’t get any reading done. As it is, subway reading time isn’t much, but it adds up. And since I’ve been traveling too — six hours sitting on the tarmac in Minneapolis on the way back from Wiscon allowed me to read the second book here (for which I’m not exactly grateful, just looking at the positives) — I’ve actually

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Taboo 3 Reading at Wiscon

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I’m not here right now. At the sound of the beep, I will probably be flying over the flyover states, only to stop and land in one of them: Wisconsin, where there will be Wisconnage. Wiscon is probably my favorite SFF convention, with its mix of Deep Social Issues conversation and sheer aesthetically-pleasing silliness: Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab perfume samples, the Dessert Salon’s gustatory glory, the chance to wear shiny things. I only hate that writing work has forced me to withdraw from the Concom; for a con as dynamic as this, I’m happy to roll up my sleeves and

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Altered Fluid Reads at NYRSF

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And now for something completely different… From the New York Review of Science Fiction‘s press release: NYRSF presents An Evening with Altered Fluid’s N. K. Jemisin E.C. Myers Devin Poore Tuesday, June 1st — Doors open 6:30 PM SoHo Gallery for Digital Art 138 Sullivan Street  $5 suggested donation  In which I will get to read with the folks from my kickass writing group! This is a bit last-minute so I haven’t decided yet what I’m going to read — probably not from The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, as the attendees at NYRSF events overlap heavily with those who heard me read

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