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Dumb news, Good news, Weird news.
It’s been an interesting week and a half. Lots of things on my plate, lots of changes. My word count tanked last week, but things seem to be much more on track since yesterday. Buzzy, lots to do, etc. There’s an interesting article from The Guardian about a crime novelist being sued for using a [...]
Adventures in e-Publishing, Cat Valente is right about everything ever, and night of the (not-gay!) living dead
It’s still February, which means my essay, “Writing Our Own (Alternate) Histories,” is still in this month’s issue of Crossed Genres. If you’ve got the time and inclination, check it out! Speaking of things you can read without pulping trees first, Aleksandr Voinov is doing an experiment. He’s posted his and Raev Gray’s short story, [...]
Macmillian, a follow-up, and every tab must go
So this weekend’s publishing industry fracas seems to have resolved itself, at least for now. Macmillan, which is enormous and has imprints for everything from textbooks to science fiction, threw down with Amazon over ebook pricing. Macmillian wanted variable pricing at $14.99 or less, while Amazon dug in its heels and demanded a $9.99 cap. [...]
Bloomsbury: Just Add Whitewash
So apparently Bloomsbury didn’t get the hint last time about how hiding PoC protagonists between white covers is offensive. Witness Jaclyn Dolamore’s debut novel, Magic Under Glass, which has a very pale figure on the cover indeed. I’m thinking I’ll be making like Ellen Datlow sometime this week and dropping them a complaint. If you [...]
January progress and more on the Realms of Fantasy thing
January continues apace. I took it easy(ish) on Sunday and took last night off entirely because I’d managed to run myself into the ground and needed an extra hour or two of sleep. That means I’m a day behind on prompts — I’ve got 31 for the month of January that I’m banging around with [...]
Something to buy in a heartbeat, and something I’m not buying even for a minute
A couple of days ago a little bird mentioned that Apex Books has the upcoming Dark Faith anthology on pre-order for $20, and that the first 500 preorders get an additional chapbook to sweeten the deal. I’m ridiculously excited about this book, not least because J.C. Hay (one of my dearest friends and one hell [...]
In which Harlequin gives me whiplash
If you know me in my free time, you’re already aware that sometimes my reading and writing habits veer a little saucy. I’m not above a bit of romance, or even slash, erotica, or outright porn. I might use a pen name when I indulge in transformative works, but who I am isn’t much of [...]
I Didn’t Start The War on Science Fiction
Some weeks it seems like I can’t walk across my own living room without tripping over some new moment of !fail in the genre. This weeks glittering gem: “The War on Science Fiction and Marvin Minsky.” Now, before I go on, it bears pointing out that the blogger — who believes “technology is the key [...]