Good Monday, Mastodon! My review of Jas Treadwell's 'The Infernal Riddle of Thomas Peach', in which I praise the typography and narrative voice alike to the skies, is live on Nerds of a Feather.
Seriously, do not let this book escape your notice. It is a gothic delight.
Today and Sunday! I'm doing a Mini Book Tour with Cody Goodfellow and David Agranoff. I'll be signing SubOrbital 7 & talking at two events:
16 September 2023 at 3:00 p.m.: Artifact Books 603 S. Coast Hwy 101 Encinitas, CA 92024.
17 September 2023 at 3:00 p.m.: Dark Delicacies 822 N. Hollywood Way, Burbank, CA 91505.
Friends! Romans! Countrymen! Do you want to read about a century of pronouns in science fiction, from David Lindsay's 'Voyage to Arcturus', through to Ann Leckie's most recent 'Translation State'?
Fear not! I've got you covered, on today's Nerds of a Feather:
Are you in LA area? I'll be at Dark Delicacies bookstore with these fellow writers (see pic) this Sunday the 17th starting around 3 pm. We'll be reading excerpts, signing, answering questions, scratching our privates, and generally hanging out. I'll sign anything but a check. 822 N. Hollywood Way
Burbank, CA 91505
I say, Mastodon, 'The Star Eater', by Kerstin Hall, is quite imaginative and has a rollicking plot, but there is a lot of cannibalism in it.
I mean, fully justified cannibalism, well incorporated into the world-building and magic system. But still. Goodness. People slurping down gobbets of flesh left and right. Yum yum yum.
I'm not a big fan of full cast audiobooks. I don't like dramatizations. However this format suits this trilogy perfectly.
It is hard to write a whole novel that is made up entirely out of records and recordings, let alone a trilogy. Eventually the format is stretched to the breaking point of my credulity. However it is also a fast, personal and exciting way to tell a story. I couldn't put it down.
Hey #Bookstodon - Currently in India and purchasing #books to bring home. Planning to buy "The Priory of the Orange Tree" by Samantha Shannon. I've been wanting to read it but the library waiting list is 1,000 miles long. My question is whether it is worth also buying it's sequel "A Day of Fallen Night" as well. Both are CRAZY cheap but quite thick. I also don't usually purchase both books in a series before reading one. Thanks!
Launch party for A SECOND CHANCE FOR YESTERDAY at American University at 6pm. @rachelcleves and @aram will be reading from the book and AU Lit Prof David Keplinger will lead a Q&A. Free and open to the public.
This is a global giveaway, so it doesn't matter where you live in this wonderful big wide world.
If you've been following me here, you'll know that these books are extra special because they've been smooched gratuitously by our current #UK housesitting #cat overlord, Miss Smudge. She managed to nest of the book box for weeks and we swear she thinks she's hatched them.
Good luck! And thank you so much for following me these past months. You are appreciated with the might of a supernova. :blobcatheart:
Dr. Stephanie Toliver, Asst. Prof. at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the Editor of Black Youth Futures, a new column in English Journal, is seeking essays, poems, stories, and comics for future issues.
The columns for September 2023 and January 2024 are already done, so get your futuristic pieces ready for May 2024 and beyond. More details are in the flyer.
I'm in this huge CYBERPUNK book, along with William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Pat Cadigan, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic and lots more.
The Big Book of Cyberpunk arrives September 26. Editor Jared Shurin tells File 770, “As with any attempt at a definitive collection, I suspect (and hope) it will provoke conversation!”
At over a thousand pages it is the largest anthology of the genre, with authors from over two dozen countries. #bookstodon#sff#scifi#books
Last night, I broke down & read the last chapters of Ancillary Mercy. I had been listening to it to help me fall asleep because I already knew it so well, but I just ... got impatient. I read so much faster than I can listen. My brain missed the WHOLE point! 🤣
So I started listening to Becky Chambers' A Closed and Common Orbit to fall asleep to, only now I want to finish it ... but luckily I need to read Ray Nayler's The Mountain in the Sea for my SF book group tonight.
It's been years in the making, but today our debut novel A SECOND CHANCE FOR YESTERDAY finally hits the shelves. It's a dream come true for both @rachelcleves and @aram. We've fantasized about being novelists since we were kids, and today that fantasy becomes reality.
We hope you love Nev, Airin, Jim Bone, and all the people we dreamed into this book.
Katherine Arden of Winternight Trilogy fame has written a WWI novel called THE WARM HANDS OF GHOSTS. After a week of books that just were not it, I’m settling into this #ARC with great pleasure. #bookstodon#fantasy#sff@bookstodon
I write all sorts of things, including smut. Where can I get my creepy sexy horror and weird sexy comedic stories published? I’m having a heck of a time finding a market for this. Examples include space marine/alien/vampire hilarity, vile nauserotica, catman on catman, and hobbit necromancy romance. #smut#erotica#horror#WritingCommunity#SFF#SpeculativeFiction#QueerFiction@writingcommunity