There’s a tumor made of pages exploding out of my ribcage. There’s a tickertape parade ravishing my skull. When I speak, all kinds of odd words come out of my mouth, handwritten in black ink on a long, narrow strip of vellum. Where’s the beak doctor when you need him/her? Don’t expect too much around […]
Yep, it’s that time of year again–the silly season–and BSC is taking advantage with the ole book tourney. Does it make any sense? No. That’s what makes it fun? Tomorrow, among others, they’ve got my Finch going up against Ajvaz’s The Other City–a book only me and three other people seemed to know about last […]
So, we got our copies of the Kosher Guide the other day. It looks beautiful. Tachyon did a great job with it. It should be available at online sources and in bookstores by April 1st, at the latest. It’s a fun, deeply silly little book that’s not meant as anything at all serious, but it […]
For those of you who’ve missed it, Nisi Shawl has been guest blogging along with Cynthia Ward on Booklifenow. Today, I’ve posted Nisi’s last entry—very thoughtful and useful to writers, or anyone, really. I have lots more to blog about this week, but am finishing off, for Steampunk Reloaded, “A Secret History of Steampunk,” a […]
Yay! A big congratulations to the 2010 Clarion San Diego class, just announced on the site. They’re all super-awesome, and Ann and I are really excited about meeting them and working with them in weeks 5 and 6 of the workshop. The instructors for weeks 1—4 are Delia Sherman, George R.R. Martin, Dale Bailey, and […]
It’s never been much of a secret how much I love Aqueduct Press–founder L. Timmel Duchamp is doing amazing work, and often at the expense of her own writing. Running a publishing company is a 24-7 job, and in this economy it’s doubly tough. So the fact that Aqueduct keeps putting out a steady stream […]
(Why Shine? Well, it just came in the door and Jetse de Vries made a concerted effort to encourage submissions from around the world. It’s a good-looking antho.) I’d just like to point people to the Locus Online compilation of international SF/Fantasy recommendations I’ve coordinated, which was completed and slotted well before the Spinrad controversy […]
(Brilliant? Yes? Effing brilliant? Yes.) We recently re-read the 1950 story “Who Goes There?” by John W. Campbell as part of our search for weird stories for this big book of weird we’re doing. The experience of encountering the story was an interesting one, in that it no longer evoked any kind of horror for […]
I’ve just posted Nisi Shawl’s piece on Avatar over at Booklifenow. Go check it out. I think she liked it just a tad more than I did.
Orthofer was a great interview subject, and the feature came out great, I think. Fascinating stuff. Here’s a snippet: To what extent can you forgive a bad translation of a good book? And can you see the quality peeking through? M.A. Orthofer: A bit of forgiveness is always necessary: the process of translation always seems […]