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Lookit what she made me: a clockwork phoenix!!! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Better photos will have to wait till we're back from ReaderCon. Leaving shortly! |
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So much to do, so little will to do it. Meanwhile, I have a new short-short-story up at Thaumatrope. Funny how I learn about these things from people tweeting me to tell me they've read it. |
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Re: ReaderCon: Anita and I do plan to manifest at the Goblin Fruit partay Thursday night. |
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Over at the StarShipSofa podcast, Kate Baker once again applies her lovely voice to my poetry, this time to my Rhysling Award-winning poem "The Strip Search." |
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Clipped straight from the official e-mail: Readercon 20 Participant Schedule: |
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He may not notice at all when a deer runs in front of us during a night walkie, but when someone sets off fireworks in front of us ... he sits and watches and looks vaguely puzzled. |
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First — though it's actually been available to purchase for a few days — Clockwork Phoenix 2 officially launched this week (technically yesterday). And I need to get the word out that it's out and that it's good. So, just like last year, I'm offering a review PDF to anyone willing to blog about the book. Tweet, even. Contact me at mythicdelirium@gmail.com if you wannit. Second — my podcast of Tobias S. Buckell's rockin' new novelette "Placa del Feugo" is up at Clarkesworld Magazine. It was a last-minute pinch-hit sort of thing, so I apologize to Tobias if I mangled any of his evocative place- or character names. But it's a fun story (set in the universe of Buckell's novels) and I've glad I got to voice it. And if you like my voice, this podcast is an hour long, so it should keep you in good supply. Third — after delays due to factors completely beyond our control, the remainder of the 350-copy hand-stamped run of Mythic Delirium 20 is done! There will be no more of these made. We're not kidding — Tim Mullins is going to destroy the hand-carved stamp he used for the illustration of Neil Gaiman's "Conjunctions." (Photographic evidence to follow.) So, if you've ordered and you've been waiting, you're going to get it Real Soon. And if you haven't ordered and you've been wanting, there's no more reason to wait. |
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Looks like both Rich Horton and Gardner Dozois have reviewed Clockwork Phoenix 2 in the latest issue of Locus. I am, of course, dying to know what they said ... but if you know, maybe you should tell me via e-mail first, just in case the knowledge brings tears to my eyes. ;-) |
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I have some pieces of my schedule now, with a panel on Saturday (The Killers Inside Us, 11 a.m.) and of course, I am MC of the The Rhysling Award Poetry Slan at 3 p.m. that same day. But that's hardly all. I will be holding a 90 minute poetry workshop, sharing a discussion on the history of science fiction poetry with Michael Bishop, hosting a reading for Clockwork Phoenix 2 and co-hosting a joint Mythic Delirium/Goblin Fruit reading. It just so happens that none of those have set time slots yet. (So, now, with two weeks to go, I need to co-ordinate all these readings. Did I mention I started my new job today? Hopefully my head won't explode.) |
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I really was on the Appalachian Trail, smart-alecks!
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Anita and I have been married 17 years. She reminded me this morning that we were married on a Friday. (Heh. So many people there that I didn't know and never saw again.) Our honeymoon was the sort of quirky country thing that only two spacey young people with absolutely no money and barely a working car between them could conceive of as a honeymoon. I especially remember the first night, which we spent at a bed and breakfast here in Roanoke. The hotel had actually been either sold or foreclosed in the time after we made our reservations (I can't quite remember which) and instead of a hotel staff, we were attended to by the attorney handling the transfer of property. We couldn't have the actual honeymoon suite because the lawyer had moved all his own stuff into it. But the suite we actually wound up in proved to suit just fine. And that morning, that lawyer cooked us one of the best breakfasts we've ever had in our lives. The man was just as good as any trained chef. Who would have thought? |
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As an amusing side note, according to a presentation that I just sat through on adolescent brain development, the emotion and reasoning centers in a woman's brain are well connected, but in a man's brain there's no direct communication between them, making men better at things like, well, killing, but not so good when it comes to impulse control. Or, as the presenter put it, "boys have issues." |
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Life appears to be rewarding me for the cool new job I'm about to take by turning the weeks leading up to it into the most breakneck, stressful set of days I've had since Christmas. Never smooth sailing, no, no, no, can't have that. At least I get one brief respite; on Friday, Anita and I will have been married 17 years. Appropriately, I'm taking my Persephone to a little restaurant with a huge reputation called Pomegranate, out in the wilds of Botetourt County, off the ominously named Stoney Battery Road. I'm not even entirely sure what tapas are, but the variety of options certainly looks delightful. |
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The cover for Sky Whales and Other Wonders (from
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The latest edition of the StarShipSofa podcast features me reading Neil Gaiman's "Conjunctions" from the latest issue of Mythic Delirium, as well as Hugo-nominated fiction from Elizabeth Bear (
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Clockwork Phoenix stories get some more love! Congratulations to the following Clockwork Phoenix writers whose stories received Honorable Mentions in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois:
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