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In today’s mail …
Jeff VanderMeer’s gorgeous Steampunk Bible and Kelly Link & Gavin Grant’s equally fabulous Steampunk! Both hard cover goodness filled with awesome.
And in the latter is Kathleen Jennings’ truly wonderful graphic novelly, steampunky story about finishing schools
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Cheeky Frawgs and Honey
Squeee!
The Cheeky Frawg ebook empire has officially released Amal El-Mohtar’s wonderful The Honey Month.
It can be found here.
Other titles will be coming soon, including:
The Troika by Stepan Chapman (novel)
ODD? edited by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer
It Came From
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And this morning I woke up to …
… to a LOT of emails telling me that Sourdough and Other Stories has been shortlisted for a World Fantasy Award for Best Collection.
Which was awesome, because look at the other folk in the category:
Best Collection
What I
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The Sad Tale Drive-by: Jesse Bullington
As well as being possessed of an impressive moustache and a shoulder ferret, Jesse Bullington is also in possession of a prodigious writing talent. His debut novel from Orbit, The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart, sent two
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More on the Otter front
It’s the end of the year … like many folk, my exhaustion levels are very, very high … so I’m finding a lot of things either hysterically funny, or tragically melancholy. On the hysterically funny side, are the number of otter-related comments I’ve been getting since the “I am sure I have a pet otter” dream. This has included Jeff
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Questions, answered.
Mr DeNardo over at SF Signal is asking questions again. This time it’s about what to give the geek/nerd in your life for Christmas/insert holiday of choice here. People answering include, but are not restricted to, Mike Resnick, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Martha Wells, Jeff VanderMeer and moi.
Go here for geeky giftly goodness.
For the record: I still want an otter.
Jeff VanderMeer on Cooking Chicken Dinners and Knowing Your Limits
Via Bibliophile Stalker (again, thank you, Charles!) this from Jeff VanderMeer, which makes some great points about not wearing out your creativity.
Sometimes we forget to breathe when it comes to our creativity. By which I mean we are so busy creating and interacting with the world that we forget to pause, to be silent, to be alone. The imagination, the
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Steampunk Reloaded
Now the site is back on its legs, I give you this.
I haz bin Omnivoracious'd
Jeff VanderMeer has very kindly talked about Sourdough and other Stories over at Omnivoracious :-).
Over at Omnivoracious (did I spell that right?)
Jeff VanderMeer reviews Amal El-Mohtar’s truly lovely The Honey Month.
Amal El-Mohtar’s The Honey Month from Papaveria Press ranks among 2010’s most exquisite and overlooked treasures. This beautifully illustrated volume of short fictions and poems by El-Mohtar takes as its inspiration the author’s tasting of 28 different kinds of honey, one per day. Each tasting leads to a different literary
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