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A monster video for a monstrously good book! But if you want to make sure you get a delicious, illustrated hardcover, you should pre-order now, because pandemic supply-chain issues.
Read moreA monster video for a monstrously good book! But if you want to make sure you get a delicious, illustrated hardcover, you should pre-order now, because pandemic supply-chain issues.
Read moreNow that So Lucky has been out for two years, I’m revisiting the publishing process, and industry and reader response—and asking for your opinion.
Read moreI have spent the last four years fighting to get the rights back from Harper, Doubleday, and Penguin and on Friday the last piece feel into place: I now own rights to the whole trilogy.
Read moreYou are invited to the ninth #CripLit Twitter chat co-hosted by novelist Nicola Griffith and Alice Wong of the Disability Visibility Project®. We want to talk about the experience of writing about and from being disabled. Please join us on 6 August, 4pm Pacific/7pm Eastern
Read moreFor our fifth #Criplit chat for disabled writers we’re trying a slightly different format. We’ve invited editors and staff from some of…
Read moreThis 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 moreThe Storify of the second #CripLit Twitter chat, on Ableism and the Publishing Industry is up. Here are my answers to the 10 questions formulated ahead of time.
Read moreFor our second #CripLit Twitter chat, Alice Wong and I will be joined by guest host Denarii Monroe to talk about ableism and the publishing industry.
Read moreA number of people have expressed interest in helping to count literary prize data. The data so far show a consistent, persistent,…
Read morePicture by Hay Kranen/ PD. The long tail is that of the demand curve of products versus sales. The best-sellers are all…
Read moreI’m delighted to announce that Hild will be published in the UK by Blackfriars, a brand-new imprint of Little, Brown UK. The…
Read moreFrom: Sue Do you have any idea when Hild will be available in the UK? Online sellers that have it are shipping…
Read moreAn excuse to talk about HILD…My research blog Gemæcca began in 2008 with a medievalist blogger’s meme game about favourite historical characters. I desperately wanted…
Read moreAn evening of this: Leads to noodling like this: And the begins of a decision. If you know my work worrying well,…
Read morePublishing is in the throes of huge change and it’s hard to keep up with the choices available for writers–of any level…
Read moreThe 2012 Man Booker Prize longlist has been announced: Nicola Barker, The Yips (Fourth Estate) Ned Beauman, The Teleportation Accident (Sceptre) André…
Read moreI’m delighted to announce that Hild will be published in 2013 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. It will be a big fat…
Read moreBefore Hild is published, I’ll be doing a tear-down of my website, this blog, and Gemæcca. Meanwhile, I’ve been futzing about with…
Read moreMike Shatzkin has written another thought-provoking post about the publishing industry. (If the business interests you, subscribe to his feed; his perspective…
Read moreToday for your delectation and delight, here’s a selection of publishing news for you. According to Publishers Weekly, ebook sales in June…
Read moreI’m now just over halfway through the third draft of Hild. I’ve squeezed out a paragraph here, a sentence there–but then wrote…
Read moreVia PW: Amazon just announced that it now sells more Kindle books than paper books: Since April 1, Amazon says it has…
Read moreI don’t listen to podcasts much because almost everything I do is writing- or reading-related and listening interferes with that. But yesterday,…
Read moreFrom Pat Holt, on Holt Uncensored, comes a blog post which begins with the tale of a rather boorish couple who act…
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