Slow River is 25
Slow 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.
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Writing Slow River
Is 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 moreHow do you feel about SF?
From: Luke I have got Slow River, which hopefully I shall read some time in the near future. Ammonite has crossed my…
Read moreI am not on the cover of my novel
From: Ed HallDamn. Is it my imagination, or have you wound up on the cover of another of your books? Detail from…
Read moreDriven by strong women
From: 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 more#FeministSF twitter interview Sunday April 29 11 am/2 pm
Tomorrow at 2 pm EST/11 am PST I’ll be doing a Twitter interview with @traciewelser using the hashtag #FeministSF. These things usually…
Read moreRandomhouse Author Portal
I’ve been playing with the Randomhouse Author Portal: RH have done an excellent job. I can now access all my sales data–including…
Read moreHistorical fiction and science fiction
Okay, 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 love SF Gateway
I’ve been busy the last little while, but today the sun is shining and it might be time to go play. So…
Read moreHow facts get distorted, but prejudice is still out there
A couple of days ago, I wrote here about a story in PW in which two children’s authors claimed their agent wouldn’t…
Read moreAre 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 moreSlow River reprint
For those of you who have been waiting a week or so for Slow River to ship from Amazon, I’ve been assured…
Read moreHard SF and Soft, or Girls v. Boys
Because my brain is full of Hild. Because you’re probably sick of hearing me talk about that. Because I was reminded of…
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 moreWhat’s going on in St. Louis, MO?
I finally got around to looking at Author Central today. It turns out that in the week of January 17-23, I sold…
Read moreVideo of me reading in Los Angeles
Here’s video of me reading from Slow River last month at the LLF Emerging Voices Writers’ Retreat in Los Angeles, where I…
Read morePresent tense is an abomination. Mostly.
Over at Sterling Editing we have our usual links of interest to emerging writers. This week I think my favourite is Moonrat’s…
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…
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From: Olen I would just like to comment on how the technology form of the “slate” in Slow River has pretty much…
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 morea kitten called Lore
I had a note from Jo, a reader of my MySpace blog (which is usually mirrored from here): I finished Slow River…
Read morethe newstank is here!
Wow. In Engadget, a picture and paragraph about what looks very like a newstank from Slow River, though I imaged them as…
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