2023: A Big Year
2023 is a year of Big Anniversaries—those ending in 0 or 5—marking significant life events for me and Kelley. Here are a round dozen of them.
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Signed personalised books for the holidays—including my memoir!
I’m teaming up again with Phinney Books, on Greenwood Avenue, Seattle, to bring you signed, personalised books for the holidays.
And, this year only, you can BUY A COPY OF MY SIGNED, NUMBERED MEMOIR-IN-A-BOX.
I can’t wait for you to read it!
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Spear updates
SPEAR won’t be out for another nine months but I have updates on images, page length, and audiobook
Read moreNew interview just up
A new interview just went up on The Fantasy Hive, in which I talk like a machine gun to Jonathan Thornton about my entire fiction career.
Read more30 April: AMMONITE radio bookclub
Ammonite is the inaugural choice of OregonmPublic Broadcasting’s Quarantine Bookclub. Join me on “Think Out Loud” live on Thursday 30th April at noon.
Read moreAmmonite—”Think Out Loud” bookclub
Thanks to COVID-19 and subsequent stay-at-home orders resulting in a mostly locked-down US, a lot of people have been looking for something to read, and many of them have a new-found interest in global pandemics. There’s been a resurgence of interest in Ammonite, my first novel. Now it’s going to be the subject of Oregon Public Broadcasting’s first read along, then call-in bookclub.
Read moreThe perfect audio for International Women’s Day
You can self-isolate and celebrate International Women’s Day and feel smug and timely by listening to Ammonite, a novel about a world…
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Pre-order Ammonite audiobook
The audiobook of Ammonite is out March 3. Pre-orders are open now!
Read moreA writing update: Hild, Aud, Ammonite and more
New of Hild, Aud, Ammonite and more
Read moreAmmonite is 25 years old today!
Today both my career as a novelist and my MS are officially 25 years old.
Read moreEllen Key Harris-Braun
This morning I found out from a friend that my first US editor, Ellen Key Harris-Braun, has died. She helped me a lot. Without her my career would be quite different. I will miss her.
Read moreOn the cover of September Locus magazine
I’m on the cover of this month’s Locus magazine. I was interviewed by Francesca Myman at the Nebula Awards weekend at the…
Read moreHow do you feel about SF?
From: Luke I have got Slow River, which hopefully I shall read some time in the near future. Ammonite has crossed my…
Read moreAmmonite goes multi-generational
I meant to post this in early November. But, eh, we all know what happened that month… _____ A conversation two weeks…
Read moreI am not on the cover of my novel
From: Ed HallDamn. Is it my imagination, or have you wound up on the cover of another of your books? Detail from…
Read moreAmmonite prequel–and more!
From: MP I find it odd emailing an author after reading her book. In some cases, the book becomes such a personal…
Read moreI which I break another heart and am happy about it, chortle
From: Morgan Hello. It’s 4:11am and I just finished reading Blue Place, after finishing Ammonite barely a week ago. This… This is…
Read moreI need some Hild help: anyone know Old Irish?
In terms of writing fiction, Irish has been the bane of my life. It’s my own fault; I’m lazy–or perhaps impatient is…
Read moreWhy I Really Like This Book: a great podcast
From: Kate Macdonald I’m starting a new miniseries of podcasts on my weekly 10-minute podcast site, Why I Really Like This Book,…
Read moreWriting is not a race
I’ve been thinking about time and writing (so have a lot of other people: see last Friday’s Sterling Editing blog post). Specifically, I’ve…
Read more#FeministSF twitter interview Sunday April 29 11 am/2 pm
Tomorrow at 2 pm EST/11 am PST I’ll be doing a Twitter interview with @traciewelser using the hashtag #FeministSF. These things usually…
Read moreNew Ammonite cover
Coming from Gollancz in September as part of the SF Masterworks series: You can pre-order in the UK here. Slow River will…
Read moreRandomhouse Author Portal
I’ve been playing with the Randomhouse Author Portal: RH have done an excellent job. I can now access all my sales data–including…
Read moreScience Fiction & Fantasy Translation Awards
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Translation Awards are awarded annually for works of speculative fiction translated into English from other languages. There…
Read moreHistorical fiction and science fiction
Okay, one’s historical and one’s fantasy but, eh, close enough for Saturday Annalee Newnitz has an article on io9.com about the “ten…
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