Three weeks three days
Just got back from Washington DC. So no mega-post today. But here’s a picture of the UK hardback and paperback of Hild,…
Read moreMonth: June 2014
All the different art of “Cold Wind”
At the end of last summer—mid-August—I unexpectedly wrote a short story, “Cold Wind.” It was triggered by heat and brine and music…
Read moreWife
Last year, two and half months before the publication of Hild, I emailed my editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux: “I hope it’s…
Read moreHild paperback cover
This is what the Hild paperback (out October 28 from Picador) will look like. What do you think?
Read moreDefinition of hægtes
From: Robin I am reading Hild and I have not been able to discover the definition of “haegtes.” I read on my…
Read moreGame of Thrones theme tune if it were from New Orleans
Coming soon, redux
The top four vote getters for my list of possible future blog posts are, in order: dog-whistle flap copy branding for writers…
Read moreGuinness does NOT contain maize/corn
Three weeks ago, after reading/hearing a disturbing rumour that Guinness uses high-fructose corn syrup, I wrote to Guinness directly to ask them…
Read moreWalking away from it all, redux
From: Gregory You once wrote “I constantly try to live up to my ideal of myself as a person and a writer (if…
Read moreCorn does not belong in beer [ETA: This is wrong]
Not long ago I found out read that my go-to all-purpose draft beer, Guinness, contains high-fructose corn syrup. Corn (or maize as…
Read moreIn which I recommend The Blue Sword: YA for all of us
After I’d finished my interview on To the Best of Our Knowledge about Hild and had just pushed back my chair to go,…
Read moreLinks to all Hild reviews, interviews, and essays
Now up, pages on: most of the last six months’ Hild reviews Hild interviews Hild miscellany (mostly essays I’ve written about Hild–the…
Read moreComing soon…
Now that I’ve drawn a line under banging the Hild drum (at least until other publicity efforts gear up) I’m free to…
Read moreFinal Hild links roundup
For those who are counting, this is links roundup #20. I’ve put all twenty in one place. I’m also assembling humongous roundups…
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