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Gollancz’s ambitious project, the SF Gateway, has just gone live: The SF Gateway is your portal to the classics of SF and…
Read moreGollancz’s ambitious project, the SF Gateway, has just gone live: The SF Gateway is your portal to the classics of SF and…
Read moreFrom lippenheimer, a thoughtful review of Slow River, pondering the consequences of straight/queer equality: One of the main questions that classic feminist…
Read moreMy first two novels, long out of print in the UK, will soon be available again in non-US English territories. The digital…
Read moreThis week I finally got my Tiptree prize back from the EMP|SFM, where it’s been on display for eight years. (I won…
Read moreToday 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 moreFrom: Kida Valérie Charavel Hello, just wanted to share something… Discovered Aud in The Blue Place, and since then, just kept following…
Read moreFrom: Eve Derrien Bonjour! I hope that your books (all of them) will be one day published in French. I’m waiting for…
Read more(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 moreTwo different publishers lost sales to me last night because of price. I had happily read on my Kindle long and juicy…
Read moreYesterday was International Women’s Day. Which also happens to be the anniversary of the very first performance of my long-ago band, Janes…
Read moreInteresting paper in Science: The Role of Ammonites in the Mesozoic Marine Food Web Revealed by Jaw Preservation, subtitled: “How they revolutionized…
Read moreI’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 moreThe first bazillion times Google Alerts brought me the latest ‘Women in SF Meme‘ link I got cross: so many people who’d…
Read moreOn Friday, over at Sterling Editing, we did our usual weekly roundup of links for writers, including this one about how, sometimes,…
Read moreBooks placed in Howard Carters house in Luxor by a Friend of AN. Ammonite (and Dangerous Space) on Howard Carter’s desk! Apparently…
Read moreJoe Sherry, the blogger who wrote yesterday’s lovely review of Ammonite, has today reprinted (with my permission) my Author’s Note, written in…
Read moreYesterday was one of those days that, while perfectly ordinary in many ways, was an absolute gift. The weather was beautiful: low…
Read moreFrom: Kathy Ludwig Imagine my delight that while playing trivial pursuit on my iphone a question about Ammonite appears in the arts…
Read moreFrom: Barbara (in a comment to this post) So where did Julia’s name come from? She’s hardly a secondary character. And Victoria…
Read moreFrom: Donna When naming your characters, do you give any thought to the actual meaning or do they just come to you?…
Read moreOkay 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 was published in the US in February 1993 and in the UK a month later. So today is (more or less)…
Read moreFrom: Janine I took the plunge and began writing my first novel. It’s definitely character-driven, as I have no idea what will…
Read moreThis is a reading from Ammonite, in which Marghe learns the true history of the original inhabitants of Jeep. It’s eleven and…
Read moreBayeux 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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