Monthly Archives: January 2010
The Door to the House of VanderMeer
Well, not really, but this is an awesome post for writers http://www.jeffvandermeer.com/2010/01/06/finch-novel-opening-chapters-discarded-approaches/. In which Jeff discusses his opening chapters of Finch, the bits he left in, the bits he left out and why, and some interesting comments on authorial intention.
Crafty goodness.
Servant of the Underworld
Forgive me, I am having a slow start to the year and should have pointed this out days ago … the talented Aliette de Bodard has her debut novel coming out this year via Angry Robot (Note for nerds: HarperCollins’ new spec-fic imprint; also publishes Kaaron Warren).
Servant of the Underworld is the first book in the triology. If you’ve not
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Pssssst … Over at Marshall's Super-Sekrit Clubhouse
Marshall Payne continues his tradition of excellent interviews in ‘da House’. Today we have David Kopaska-Merkel (who is one of my Daily Cabal colleagues and awesome to boot). The interview itself is by Jaime Lee Moyer.
This week’s interview in the Clubhouse is conducted by Jaime Lee Moyer (
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And Now the Moment We’ve All Been Waiting For …
China Miéville is blogging. Well, he’s starting … more words will be added as they occur … words in progress …
Fer real, ya-huh.
Over here at the fabtabulously named “rejectamentalist manifesto” http://chinamieville.net/.
Bring a dictionary, the man has seven (7) brains and is not afraid to use ’em. Throws out
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Votey McVoterton
Oh, c’mon, it’s been a long day.
Fantasy Magazine is running its annual Best Fantasy Story of 2009 Poll and Contest – you can go and vote for your faves. Keep an eye out for Lisa Hannett’s awesome The Good Window, Aliette de Bodard’s lovely Golden Lilies, and Aidan Doyle’s
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Onethousand.org
Author Tara June Winch (Swallow the Air) spends a lot of her time raising funds for this organisation. Author (and my awesome friend) Bec Sparrow (http://rebeccasparrow.wordpress.com/) is getting onboard and has a target of raising $10,000 for the project.
What’s it about? Literacy. One of my favourite words.
1000.org is a non-profit organization that promotes
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Woooot!
I do appear to have made my first sale for 2010 on the second day of the year. Huzzah!
Twelfth Planet Press (aka The Little Press That Could – http://angelaslatter.com/2009/12/08/all-im-saying-is/) will release its next anthology, Sprawl, into the wild at AussieCon4 (http://www.aussiecon4.org.au/) in Melbourne in September of this year.
The Frog Prince – The Middle Bit
How could it have gone so spectacularly badly?
Felicity negotiated Tad down to a family dinner. Was it Great-aunt Bernadette of Grenouille-sur-le-Tapis had married a frog who’d turned into a handsome prince? Whatever, someone had married a frog and it all turned out happily ever after. If worst came to worst, there was
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