…used Scrivener for Mac plus the kindle converter KindleGen, which you can download on the amazon website. I found the instructions here useful, though I did end up having to fight a bit to get my part labelled as “book 1” and not “chapter 1”). For EPUB, same thing except no need for KindleGen. The files produced are pretty clean; I ran them past people with a Kindle (huge thanks to Stephanie Burgis), and on my own Kobo Glo, just to make sure that…

…easier, these carryings. Check it out here, and tell me what you think. Author’s notes forthcoming Thursday or Friday, depending how much free time I have. Electric Velocipede is also having a kickstarter to fund their next year of online fiction, here: if you want to support quirky online fiction, this is the place! ETA: edited this slightly to save my comments on the story for the author’s notes….

…attered Wings | Book 2. The House of Binding Thorns | Book 3.The House of Sundering Flames The Dominion of the Fallen Reading Order (Complete) 0.2. “Of Books, and Earth, and Courtship” | 0.5. “In Morningstar’s Shadow” | 0.6. “Against the Encroaching Darkness” | 0.7. “The Death of Aiguillon” | 0.8 “Court of Birth, Court of Strength” | 0.9. “The House, in Winter” | Book 1. The House of Shattered Wings | 1.5. “Children of Thorns, Children of Water” |…

…smooth, featureless and yet somehow radiating malice. Nothing alive was welcome in the underworld. I passed under them, over the many rivers barring the ghosts’ way to the mortal world, until at last I reached the long flight of stairs leading back to the mortal world. On my way down to the underworld the quetzal bird had shown me the way, flying ahead of me in the darkness, its green feathers shining with an inner light. But now the bird was dead…

…ry,” he whispered. “I had to.” Her lips moved, straining to speak–but no sound could come out. It might have been his name she was trying to speak–a reproach, or thanks. He would never know. I’m sorry. At length her gaze grew slack, and the body under him stopped moving. There was only the blood, blood everywhere on his arms and hands–and the memory of her gaze transfixing him. He did not move. He remained kneeling by her body, in the silence of t…

…but I hadn’t yet entered the order at that time. It was Brother Yuan who found him. Come in. I’ll take you to him,” he said, and guided Fai through the corridors decorated with images of the Immortals, to a smaller shrine in a courtyard. A very old monk was praying before a group of nine painted statues. Eight of them were the Eight Immortals of the Taoist tradition, easily recognisable by their attributes. The ninth, smaller statue didn’t belong…

…of charge: -my story “In the Lands of the Spill” is now available in the Avatars Inc anthology, an anthology about telepresence that includes works by Tade Thompson, Pat Cadigan, Ken Liu, Nino Cipri… -and I’ve made available a bundle of three of my Xuya stories that aren’t easy to find through my Patreon (this is a public post but do feel free to join my Patreon if you want the exciting paying stuff: this is much much appreciated). Go download th…

…ing!), I’d be overjoyed if you considered it.   And now the part where I recommend other people’s stuff I loved. Graphic novel The Magic Fish, Trung Le Nguyen: a story of immigration, fairytale retellings and a young boy struggling to come out to his family. This just hit me hard in the feels and never let go. Short Story “An Explorer’s Cartography of Already-Settled Lands” by Fran Wilde: a gorgeous, evocative story of maps and what they mean to d…

…nd her moving account of the genesis of her Regency YA trilogy (which, incidentally, is near the top of my books to order) –World Tea Expo : wow, I’m salivating… (via teafreaks) BF and I are still deep into the Canada guide, trying to work out what we’re going to do before Anticipation (looks like there’s more than enough around Montreal to keep us busy for a while). Off to spend some time with Hamster Sister (she had a bunch of wisdom teeth remov…

…ches their new website–and their electronic edition. To celebrate, you can download the February 2010 issue for free (and read my short story “Mélanie” as well as Ann Leckie‘s awesome “The Unknown God”, a cool tribal-ish fantasy about gods and their powers, which reminded me of Greg Keye’s The Waterborn and Blackgod). Angry Robot has gorgeous covers for Kaaron Warren‘s Walking the Tree, Colin Harvey‘s Damage Time and Andy Remic‘s Soul Stealers. I…