Spear updates
SPEAR won’t be out for another nine months but I have updates on images, page length, and audiobook
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Hild’s bynames #3: Little Prickle
Little Prickle, referring to the hedgehog, is as much a pet name for Hild as a byname.
Read moreHild art
I’m experimenting with making my own Hild-related art. So far it’s mainly animals…
https://gemaecce.com/2021/04/20/making-my-own-hild-art/
Read moreMenewood progress
When is Menewood coming out? I discuss timing and talk about a juicy post going up on Gemæcce
Read moreSpear—my short fantasy novel
I’ve written a new book: a short fantasy novel (my first!): Spear. It’s like Hild but with magic—the wild magic of the landscape, yes, the magic of love and the human heart, absolutely, but also the sword-swinging, monster-killing magic of myth and demigods…
Read moreMENEWOOD!!
I have finished the first draft of MENEWOOD and it is huge! Huge and awesome! Awesome and exciting!
Read moreWhy I’m going to be saying No a lot
For the rest of this year and all of next I’m turning down professional invitations of every kind. I have work to do.
Read moreA writing update: Hild, Aud, Ammonite and more
New of Hild, Aud, Ammonite and more
Read moreWriting space, September 2016
On Monday Vulpes Libris republished a slightly edited piece about my writing space that I first published here five years ago. Here’s an updated look at that space.
Read moreHild cat pictures and fan art
I’m hard at work on Menewood, aka Hild II. So here are a bunch of cat pictures, that is, cats with Hild, followed by some Hild fan art. Some of these you will have seen before, some are new.
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Every New Year’s Eve Kelley and I do the same thing: sit before the fire with Champagne while we eat delicious things and talk. We talk about the year that’s passed and the year to come…
Read moreMy Readercon schedule
I’m Guest of Honour at Readercon, July 9 – 12. Here’s my schedule of events. Consider three in particular…
Read morePink Floyd is embedded in my work
When I was ten or eleven my soon-to-be brother-in-law gave me his old Phillips’ cassette recorder and tapes of Pink Floyd’s Ummagumma,…
Read moreLast chance to be a character in HILD II
For $250 I will name a character after you in the second Hild novel, Menewood. The money will go towards Stories for Chip, a literary tribute to Samuel R. Delany.
Read moreThe opening of Menewood? Tomorrow!
I might read from the beginning of Hild II when I’m at Queen Anne Books with Patricia Bracewell tomorrow. Show up and see: Thursday 16th April, 7 pm.
Read moreThe ending of Hild: not a romance
* This post contains spoilers for Hild and Hild II * From: Diane My book club just had a discussion about Hild. It…
Read moreWant to be a character in HILD II?
As I said yesterday, I’m going to be Guest of Honour at this year’s Readercon, July 9-12, Burlington MA. If you donate $250 to…
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