…n you can’t keep your eyes off the child for fear they might inadvertently commit suicide (and it’s amazing the number of ways that kids can find to come to harm. It’s like they have a sixth sense for the worst thing to do at any given time). There are periods when they need you; periods when you play with them, read with them, talk with them, help them do homework… All of these are times when no writing happens. But. But… I’m a parent. I gave bir…
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…chester on Friday and London on Saturday have sold out, but there are still spots for the Sunday event. Though sadly I can’t do the mass signing on Sunday, as I have to get home. There’s also an online event if you can’t make it to any of these: the schedule is below (and yeah, some of us will be waving trying to look smart in the bus Friday afternoon 🙂 ) …
…because it’s not my story to tell, but right now she and her family could really use some financial help. We’ve set up a fundraiser here: And, hum, I know people have been asking about hard-to-obtain Xuya stories? If you donate to this, you’ll have access to an exclusive ebook which features three Xuya stories which aren’t online: namely, “Fleeing Tezcatlipoca”, “Two Sisters in Exile”, and “Memorials”. (Apologies for the generic cover, I put that…
…drawback is that the more carbon you put in a blade, the more fragile it becomes. Also, it’s more susceptible to corroding, which means that you usually add some other metal like chromium or tungsten so that your blade doesn’t rust at the mere sight of water. Some bright souls came up with the idea of laminated steel, which is sandwiching a hard steel blade (for the edge) between two layers of softer steel: a combination of a good edge, an easy to…
…ion post with stuff by me and a lot of other great people (insofar as I could and it made sense, I’ve included a lot of stuff available online for those last minute reading binges!)….
…to bind all to its will. It’s on the following best-of-2017 lists: Locus Recommended Reading List Amazon Tor.com Reviewers’ Choice Barnes and Noble Sci Fi & Fantasy blog The Guardian (Adam Roberts) The Verge (Andrew Liptak, Recommended Book) Fantasy-Faction SciFiNow: 35 Books you should have read in 2017 (Jonathan Hatfull) Fantasy Cafe Where to Buy Hardback (US) Penguin Random House US indie stores Amazon US Barnes and Noble The Book Depository Tr…
My Xuya short story “A Hundred and Seventy Storms” has been published online as part of Uncanny Magazine‘s July/August 2016 issue. Aka “wow I hadn’t actually used Kepler’s Laws in a long, long time” (I needed to do some quick and dirty planetary design. Was very proud I remembered most of them °_°). Snippet: This is the room where The Snow Like a Dancer dies, year by year and piece by piece. When they wheel in the cradle where she rests, she alwa…
…striding the broken streets of Paris. These aren’t saints or monsters, but complicated people, making decisions for their own reasons, worming their terrible way off the page and into your heart. … a story which rewards close reading, and one which compelled me to keep turning pages; the climax was rewarding and impressive – and left me breathlessly hoping for more. Stitch’s Media Fix: …such an experience for me. (…) I almost felt like I was in th…
…ear. Giang, Thanh’s humble handmaiden, who appeared to her the night of a terrible fire and who has deep secrets of her own, might be the one who holds the key to love, freedom, and true power. More info at Tor.com! And if you feel minded to preorder: Amazon US | Amazon UK | Kobo…
…This is awesome: the Pacific Asia Museum has online exhibitions (with downloadable pdfs): Rank and Style: Power Dressing in Ancient China Visions of Enlightenment: Art of Buddhism Nature of the Beast: Animals in Japanese Paintings and Prints (hum, yes, I’m straightening out the ranks in Foreign Ghosts, why do you ask?)…
