SF Gateway and Encyclopedia of SF go live
Gollancz’s ambitious project, the SF Gateway, has just gone live: The SF Gateway is your portal to the classics of SF and…
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Are queers human?
From lippenheimer, a thoughtful review of Slow River, pondering the consequences of straight/queer equality: One of the main questions that classic feminist…
Read moreAmmonite, Slow River, and Gollancz’s SF Gateway
My first two novels, long out of print in the UK, will soon be available again in non-US English territories. The digital…
Read moreMy Tiptree plate
This week I finally got my Tiptree prize back from the EMP|SFM, where it’s been on display for eight years. (I won…
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Today I’m cross with gods. Anglo-Saxon gods. I’ve been researching them for Hild. They are slippery little bastards. That is, scholars seem…
Read moreMessage from a viajera
From: Kida Valérie Charavel Hello, just wanted to share something… Discovered Aud in The Blue Place, and since then, just kept following…
Read moreMy novels in French
From: Eve Derrien Bonjour! I hope that your books (all of them) will be one day published in French. I’m waiting for…
Read moreThis, right here, is what publishing needs to fix
(Thanks, Lisa) Look at this: my novels for sale at iBooks. Ammonite (1993): $11.99Slow River (1995): $11.99The Blue Place (1998): $9.99Stay (2002):…
Read moreEbook pricing
Two different publishers lost sales to me last night because of price. I had happily read on my Kindle long and juicy…
Read moreAmmonite and Janes Plane
Yesterday was International Women’s Day. Which also happens to be the anniversary of the very first performance of my long-ago band, Janes…
Read moreHow ammonites changed the world
Interesting paper in Science: The Role of Ammonites in the Mesozoic Marine Food Web Revealed by Jaw Preservation, subtitled: “How they revolutionized…
Read moreA lovely review of Ammonite
I’m busy today, but smiling. Publishing life is going well (more on that another time). Here’s part of what’s made me smile:…
Read moreStrangely heartwarming
The first bazillion times Google Alerts brought me the latest ‘Women in SF Meme‘ link I got cross: so many people who’d…
Read moreImpatience is not our friend
On Friday, over at Sterling Editing, we did our usual weekly roundup of links for writers, including this one about how, sometimes,…
Read moreAmmonite and Howard Carter
Books placed in Howard Carters house in Luxor by a Friend of AN. Ammonite (and Dangerous Space) on Howard Carter’s desk! Apparently…
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Joe Sherry, the blogger who wrote yesterday’s lovely review of Ammonite, has today reprinted (with my permission) my Author’s Note, written in…
Read morerich and round and sound as a nut
Yesterday was one of those days that, while perfectly ordinary in many ways, was an absolute gift. The weather was beautiful: low…
Read moreAmmonite and trivial pursuit
From: Kathy Ludwig Imagine my delight that while playing trivial pursuit on my iphone a question about Ammonite appears in the arts…
Read morewanting to go after my subconscious with a knife
From: Barbara (in a comment to this post) So where did Julia’s name come from? She’s hardly a secondary character. And Victoria…
Read morenaming characters
From: Donna When naming your characters, do you give any thought to the actual meaning or do they just come to you?…
Read moreammonite sweet 16ers
Okay all you Ammonite Sweet 16ers—shira, janine, rory, mihaela-marija, jessica m–please send your name and mailing address to me by tomorrow night:…
Read moreAmmonite’s sweet sixteen
Ammonite was published in the US in February 1993 and in the UK a month later. So today is (more or less)…
Read morewriting proces: intuitive or analytical?
From: Janine I took the plunge and began writing my first novel. It’s definitely character-driven, as I have no idea what will…
Read moreFriday audio: Ammonite, part more
This is a reading from Ammonite, in which Marghe learns the true history of the original inhabitants of Jeep. It’s eleven and…
Read moreammonite at hastings
Bayeux Tapestry (it’s an *embroidery* people, ah, fuck it…) Every few weeks I make a list of some of the search terms…
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