SPEAR IN ONE WEEK!!!
Spear is out in one week (!) and I’ve been making pretties. Here’s a short video representing a key scene in the book.
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SPEAR IN TWO WEEKS!!!
Spear is out in two weeks (!) and I’ve been making pretties. Here’s a short video representing a key scene in the book.
Read moreMonstrously good! [video]
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 moreKitten Report #18: Two-and-a-bit years old
Charlie and George are two years old—no longer kittens but full-grown cats. Maybe. Their personalities have grown more distinct.
Read moreA 3-minute video reading from Spear
In which I read the first 3 minutes of Spear, my forthcoming Arthurian fantasy
Read moreFlowers, cats, birds and bees [photos, video]
This year’s deck flowers were more of a experiment than usual, plus we had a lot more sun than we’re used to and in a different rhythm. The result? A garden full of colour, scent, dogfighting hummingbirds, bees, and a cat.
Read moreClarion West/Fight For Our Lives [video, audio]
Help make Clarion West’s world-beating SFF writer’s workshop accessible for all!
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Kitten Report #14: One year in the big wide world [photo, video]
Today Charlie and George are exactly one year old. They came to us as tiny rescue kitties, the only survivors of a litter of six, but today they are lords of their domain. And for their birthday we gave them a brief adventure in the great outdoors…
Read moreVICE News interview
VICE News interviews me and other writers/filmmakers about the difference between real and fictional pandemics.
Read moreKitten Report #05: Visual rehab [photo and video]
Kitty report #5, in which Charlie gets home-made visual rehab and begins to adapt to his visual impairment
Read moreKitten report #02
A photo and video update of the continuing adventures of kittens Charlie and George.
Read moreWhy stories matter
A compilation video of five PNW authors—Tom Rob Smith, Jamie Ford, me, Jussi Adler-Olsen, and Stella Cameron—talking about story and why it matters.
Read moreSo Lucky video
Gathered in one place for your amusement, here are a few bits of So Lucky-related video and animation.
Read moreAnimated book cover for So Lucky!
I love this animation of the So Lucky cover by the fabulous graphics department at FSG! Don’t blame them for the sound, though; that’s something I added.
Read moreGood music for hard times
It’s been a day of hard news. But here’s a song I love, I’ve always loved. It always helps me. Perhaps it…
Read moreInternational Women’s Day
International Women’s Day is the anniversary of the very first performance of my long-ago band, Janes Plane. Here’s how I framed that story in my memoir, And Now We Are Going to Have a Party.
Read moreTannenbomb*
Holiday tradition around here: blow the Christmas up. But because 2016 was so fucking special, you get four versions. Enjoy
Read moreBare Hands
I got this yesterday: video put together by Lou Duffy-Howard, bassist extraordinaire, for “Bare Hands,” a track recorded by Janes Plane, the band I was in, in 1982. I was 21.
Read moreDarth doesn’t like Christmas trees…
Darth Vader gets irritated by our Christmas tree…
Read moreWatch this video about privilege and children’s lit
A video of a panel discussion, “Who Holds the Power: The Impact of Privilege on Children’s Literature,” taped at the Children’s Librarians Institute. Useful whether you’re new to the idea or have spent time thinking about and acting from the perspective of diversity.
Read moreTouching Fire video
“Sun on Dragonfly” is a video made in response to an audio excerpt of my story,”Touching Fire.” Maybe NSFW.
Read moreGirls of lost subcultures
I’m apparently one of the “girls from lost subcultures” in Visible Girls, an exhibit by photographer Anita Corbin. Shot in 1981 (!) and now on exhibit in London.
Read moreHild roundup #14
See the roundup of roundups for more reviews, interviews and Hild miscellany than you could possibly want. REVIEWS Bookreporter Hild, Sarah Rachel…
Read morePBS interview
The first part of my PBS interview on Well Read just went up on the web. Sadly the usual embed code doesn’t seem…
Read moreHild roundup #8
This will be the last links roundup, I think. Hild‘s been out six weeks and the pace of reviews and interviews is…
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