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One more photo from Cupcakecon

The cat is gothier than the author.

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Alaya Dawn Johnson (whose awesome novel Moonshine is coming out in May) has an excellent guest post on Justine Larbalestier's blog, about people of color on book covers.

UBC: With Custer's Cavalry

Fougera, Katherine Gibson. With Custer's Cavalry. 1942. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986.


This book is the memoir of Katherine Garrett Gibson; since it has no critical apparatus, it's impossible to tell how much of what we get is what she herself wrote and how much she was edited and/or expanded by her daughter (Katherine Gibson Fougera). I don't say this because I suspect Fougera of misrepresenting her mother's text, but just to signal that there is no way to tell.

Katherine Garrett...

Cupcakecon Report

Yes, I have been Off The Grid for an entire week. If something happened which you want to be sure I know about, please leave a comment here.

I wrote up Cupcakecon as I went, in a somewhat elliptical fashion. Thusly:

Cupcakecon: Prologue

Arrive Madison airport -- Curse Delta for charging $25 to check a bag. -- Reading With Custer's Cavalry. -- Photograph of Comanche, the only living thing found on the battlefield after Little Big Horn. -- I buy a book of logic puzzles in Minneapolis. -- Tucson af...

I'm not really here

But.

"A Light in Troy" is up at PodCastle. Rated PG for feral children and the winners who write history. It is sponsored by N. K. Jemisin's The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, sample chapters of which can be found on her website.

in between expeditions

Thursday, I got back from DeKalb--where I had a lovely time. Thank you, rarelylynne , michaeldthomas , and everyone who came to the event. (I don't know quite what to call it, since it wasn't a reading and it wasn't a talk, and it wasn't exactly a Q&A, so let's just go with "event.") Also, OMG. Best Cupcakes EVAR.

Tomorrow, I leave for a week in Arizona. (Reminder: along with most of the rest of the Shadow Unit stable, I will be at the Tucson Festival of Books next Saturday. And may I just say t...

reminders of sundry things

Megan Arkenberg and cheloya , things for you are In The Mail.
The con_or_bust auctions close Saturday, March 13, 2010 (11:59 p.m. Eastern). This includes (among a lot of other cool stuff) the auction for a signed hardback of The Virtu, in which the bidding has reached $65.
Corambis will be out in paperback (according to Amazon) at the end of this month.
Tomorrow, I'm doing a Friends of the NIU Libraries/Friends of DeKalb Public Library event. Info here. Also, yes, I will sign things after the dis...

Five weekend links, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral

1. How to Put on a Sports Bra

2. Shane Macgowan and a bunch of other artists cover "I Put A Spell On You" to benefit Concern Worldwide's work in Haiti.

3. Somehow, I had missed out on Shaun the Sheep . Silent comedy is not dead!

4. It looks like Hawaii isn't going to get slammed. Hawaii Tsunami is streaming live coverage & Twitter feed. (They also have a list of the five most deadly tsunamis in history, which I found very interesting reading. I don't know why I had thought of tsunamis as a strict...

Peculiar practices of a delivery ninja

So the delivery ninja brought my new toner cartridge today. (Huzzah! Megan Arkenberg, this means you will be getting your Booth stories soon!) But he or she felt it necessary to . . .

I need to back up a second. Instead of a regular doormat, we have a metal grating. It's intended for the purpose--my sister found it in one of those catalogues of Victorian home decor reproductions--and I actually really like it, because you wipe your feet on it and it doesn't get dragged around.

So, grating. And ...

Happy birthday to the fabulous hanneblank!

Happy birthday to the fabulous hanneblank !