Appearances

A Raffle, A Reading, and a Rant

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Been a busy few days, as you might imagine, between recovering from jetlag and Launch Week. But three things make a post, so going to pile them all in together here for expediency’s sake. The raffle: The Carl Brandon Society is doing a fundraising raffle for an ebook reader. But wait! This isn’t just any ebook reader, it’s one that comes pre-loaded with short stories and fiction by CBS members, including Yours Truly. This raffle is specifically intended to support the Octavia Butler Memorial Scholarship fund, which sends writers of color to Clarion — the (expensive) SF writing workshop that […]

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Stuff happening in places with people doing things!

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Busy week coming up, boys and girls, as part of the run-up to The Broken Kingdoms’ launch. A list: Sunday, Oct 24: I’ll be reading from my short story “The Effluent Engine” at Steampunk Day at the Dumbo Lofts, here in NYC. Then I’m leaving on a jet plane, and… Wednesday, October 27: I’ll be in London! Reading at the BSFA meeting there, and getting interviewed in person by Niall Harrison. ::wibble:: Might also be doing a Q&A with Orbit UK; more on this later. Then… Saturday, Oct. 30: I’ll be doing a signing with Karen Miller at Forbidden Planet!

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Brooklyn Book Festival this Sunday!

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FYI to all NYC-area peeps: I will be appearing as part of the Brooklyn Book Festival this weekend! I’m super-excited about this, as I’ve been attending the BKBF as a book lover for the last few years. Haven’t been? You should come! The BKBF is a day-long carnival of speakers, booths, entertainment events, and fun for book lovers of all stripes. My particular contribution to the fun will be this: Unheard of Magnitude of Fiction. Bill Evans, co-author of Category 7, N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, Karen Lord Redemption in Indigo, read from their gripping books, which challenge us

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Wibble Weekend

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As most of you have guessed, I am not in Australia this weekend, at Worldcon. I’d like to be, but alas — couldn’t swing it this year. This is despite the fact that one of my short stories, “Non-Zero Probabilities”, is up for a Hugo. I’m kind of on tenterhooks, waiting to see whether I win or not. But since I won’t find out until, by my calculations, about 5 a.m. EST on Sunday morning, nothing I can do but wait. Am I going to get up at 5 a.m. to find out if I won? Erm… well… probably not.

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100K in the io9 Book Club!

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If you missed my Tweet about it a few weeks back, here’s the update from the folks at io9 itself — they’re going to be focusing on The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms for their August book club. Details of how to participate are over there, but basically — read the book if you haven’t read it, then go there and talk about it. I’ll be joining them during the last week of August/first week of Sept in order to answer any burning questions that people still want to ask. And of course, because I am Evil and that’s what Evil people

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Altered Fluid Interview at Clarkesworld

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This got posted last week, but I was busy moving and only had time to Tweet it. People often ask published authors how they got to where they are. The route is different for every author — but for me, it’s included a number of good writing groups. My current group is Altered Fluid, a New York-area group that’s been running since 2002 or so. Every writing group has its own culture, and what I like about AF’s is that they’re a group of similarly dedicated people — we meet every week, for example — who understand the value of

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My name in lights

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…well, not quite, but on the cover of Locus‘ August 2010 issue, at least: There’s a nifty interview with me in the back of the issue, too! For those of you who don’t know, Locus is the industry news magazine for the science fiction/fantasy field — think of it as the Forbes of the geek set. So it’s Big Stuff to get this interview; seriously squee-worthy. There’s other good stuff in the issue too, including an interview with Pat Rothfuss and a kickass review of buddy Alaya Dawn Johnson’s unique epic fantasy “Spirit Binders” trilogy (highly recommended). So if you

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Gone Fishin’

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…well, not really. Actually, I’m in the process of moving to a new apartment this week, so I’m pretty busy. But in addition to that, I’m going to be guest-blogging for the next few weeks over at SF writer John Scalzi’s Whatever. I’m not very good at blog multitasking — as those of you who read the Magic District might have noticed — so I might be a little quiet here ’til I’m done there. That’s OK, though; you’re welcome to read me there too. There’s three other people guestblogging with me, and I think all four of us are

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Yonkers News

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(Somehow that doesn’t sound quite as exotic as “German News” from my last post. Oh, well.) Folks in the New York area: I’ll be appearing at a fundraising event at the Yonkers Public Library on Sunday! (Download the ad poster here.) Basically, the YPL brings in a slew of authors each year for its Book Fair, which is partly sponsored by Barnes and Noble, and is a fundraising event. I’ll be reading from The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, and also doing a signing, starting at 2 p.m. The event is at Barnes & Noble, 2614 Central Park Avenue, in Yonkers. So

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Readercon

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For those who don’t know, I used to live in Boston. Liked it fine, but liked NYC better, which is why I’m here. But while I was there, I also liked a little local SF con called Readercon. Haven’t been back since, though, so it was very nice to be invited this year, since I’ve now apparently achieved enough Author Cool Points to merit being on the programming. And boy, am I on the programming. Here, then, is my Readercon schedule: 5 p.m. Friday: Axes of Identity in Speculative Fiction 6 p.m. Friday: Brainstorming Immersive Inclusive Worlds (this is a

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