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At that book place. On my way to my agent’s.

Currently in Manhattan. About to go to breakfast with Ellen Datlow. Later to Tor Books and tonight to a book launch for Alethea Kontis‘s Enchanted. Ah, the exciting life of a SF author.

Now where the heck did I put my limo?  You take your eye off the entourage for one minute and everything goes to heck.

Laura J. Mixon’s 3 book series Avatars Dance has just been released in Audio (20 years after the first book appeared in 1992.)

Disclaimer: I am married to the woman, but these books have not diminished in power or skill. Well worth a listen.  Go try the samples at audible.com.

 

Here’s the adjusted cover for the mass market paperback edition of 7th Sigma which will be available from discerning stores June 26th, 2012.  I hope to arrange some signings in July and August.

So far, I am definitely signing in Denver on August 12th (3 pm) at the Broadway Book Mall (200 S. Broadway) with:

Carrie Vaughn, Kitty Steals the Show, her latest Kitty Norville urban fantasy novel

Rebecca Hale, Adrift on St. John, the start of a new mystery series; author of the popular series which includes How to Wash a Catand Nine Lives Last Forever.

and

Ian Tregillis will be here from New Mexico to discuss and sign his latest novel, The Coldest War, as well as the paperback edition of author of Seed.

Oddly enough, I had just finished SHADES OF MILK AND HONEY by Mary Robinette Kowal in time for its sequel GLAMOUR IN GLASS (which comes out TOMORROW,) when I heard that she’d lost her first sentence!

More than that, actually. After the final corrected edit left the editor’s hands and before it hit the printer, it lost the first sentence and several pages of corrections.

Fortunately you can read the first sentence at her web site. Also you can take a quiz trying to identify great works by their second sentences.

I haven’t read GLAMOUR, yet, but the first book in the series is Loverly.

Oddly enough, I had just finished SHADES OF MILK AND HONEY by Mary Robinette Kowal in time for its sequel GLAMOUR IN GLASS (which comes out TOMORROW,) when I heard that she'd lost her first sentence!

More than that, actually. After the final corrected edit left the editor's hands and before it hit the printer, it lost the first sentence and several pages of corrections.

Fortunately you can read the first sentence at her web site. Also you can take a quiz trying to identify great works by their second sentences.

I haven't read GLAMOUR, yet, but the first book in the series is Loverly.

I've been correcting some minor errors in the ebook editions of Jumper, Reflex, Wildside, and Helm.

Many, many thanks to the readers who used the email address in the front of the books (errata@digitalnoir.com) to report errors!

A little bit more about it over at digitalNoir publishing.

I have mentioned before that I have a story in Ellen Datlow and Terry Windling's original anthology, After, which comes out in October of 2012 from Hyperion.  They've published part of their afterword for the book at The Night Bazaar website.

But other people point out that this is nothing new; every generation has its disasters and apocalyptic fears. The two of us grew up, for example, with "duck-and-cover" drills in elementary school to "prepare" us for nuclear attack…while our parents lived through childhoods shaped by the ravages and aftershocks of World War II. For as long as dystopian books have existed, generations of readers have been devouring them.

Read the entire post.

Last Fall I got to read RA MacAvoy's latest book four months ahead of publication and then interview her. (I'd last met and talked with her in the early eighties.)  It was published in this months Lightspeed Magazine.

R.A. MacAvoy's first novel won the Locus Poll's First Novel Award and hooked her the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Tea With the Black Dragon (1983, Bantam) is a contemporary fantasy, a hard-boiled detective mystery, and a love story. Its protagonists are a middle-aged musician and a centuries-old dragon now in human form. Tea was a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, Compton Crook, World Fantasy, and Philip K. Dick Awards and received a special citation from the Philip K. Dick jury. It was selected for David Pringle's Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels, An English-Language Selection, 1946-1987.

In this genre, that is what's known as a "good start."

Interview: R.A. MacAvoy by Steven Gould | Lightspeed Magazine.