New 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 moreA 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 moreSlow River is 25. It won awards (Nebula, Lambda Literary etc.), garnered some interesting reviews, and formed a big part of my personal and professional life in SF.
Read moreIs there such a thing as an “essential self”? If so, can it be warped, encouraged, or destroyed? How far outside the moral and physical boundaries of that essential self would I we be willing to step in order to stay alive? And—if we stepped so far out that we became someone we did not recognise or like—would we still be us? I wrote Slow River to answer those questions.
Read moreFrom: Luke I have got Slow River, which hopefully I shall read some time in the near future. Ammonite has crossed my…
Read moreFrom: Ed HallDamn. Is it my imagination, or have you wound up on the cover of another of your books? Detail from…
Read moreFrom: Meredith I’m a big fan of your books, so I was pleased when I wandered into Chapters-Indigo in Vancouver and saw that…
Read moreTomorrow at 2 pm EST/11 am PST I’ll be doing a Twitter interview with @traciewelser using the hashtag #FeministSF. These things usually…
Read moreI’ve been playing with the Randomhouse Author Portal: RH have done an excellent job. I can now access all my sales data–including…
Read moreOkay, one’s historical and one’s fantasy but, eh, close enough for Saturday Annalee Newnitz has an article on io9.com about the “ten…
Read moreI’ve been busy the last little while, but today the sun is shining and it might be time to go play. So…
Read moreA couple of days ago, I wrote here about a story in PW in which two children’s authors claimed their agent wouldn’t…
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 moreFor those of you who have been waiting a week or so for Slow River to ship from Amazon, I’ve been assured…
Read moreBecause my brain is full of Hild. Because you’re probably sick of hearing me talk about that. Because I was reminded of…
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 moreI finally got around to looking at Author Central today. It turns out that in the week of January 17-23, I sold…
Read moreHere’s video of me reading from Slow River last month at the LLF Emerging Voices Writers’ Retreat in Los Angeles, where I…
Read moreOver at Sterling Editing we have our usual links of interest to emerging writers. This week I think my favourite is Moonrat’s…
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 moreFrom: Olen I would just like to comment on how the technology form of the “slate” in Slow River has pretty much…
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 moreI had a note from Jo, a reader of my MySpace blog (which is usually mirrored from here): I finished Slow River…
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