Eli Lang's Blog

Actual! Book! News!

I’m SO EXCITED because I have a couple short stories coming out within the next couple months, and they’re totally different, in different genres, and I love them both, and I’m just so happy I get to share them with you. If you read my newsletter, you already have the basic info. But I thought I might do some highlights for each:

Pale Blue Heart

This is a sci-fi story! It’s pretty short, like read it in one sitting sort of goodness.I want to say this isn’t a romance, because there’s no sexual...

Wolves (In other words, a new book!!!)

[image error]I mentioned a couple weeks ago, here and there, that I’d be putting out a new romantic fantasy, called Wolves, soon.  And that I’d be doing it a little differently—I’ll be releasing the book a chapter a month through my newsletter.  And that’s a thing that’s about to start!  I’m sending out the first installment in October.  \o/

Here’s how this is going to work.  I’m going to post the first chapter here, at the end of this blog post.  If you think it’s something you’d like to read, you can si...

Updates and Such

Hi lovelies.  It’s been a while since I did an update on what’s going on with me, what I’m working on, and what you can expect to see from me in the near future, so, here we go.

 

Northern Hearts Conference

I’m going to be at the Toronto Northern Hearts Conference on September 22!  I’m super ridiculously excited about this.  I’m doing a panel with Rain Merton and Tamsen Parker called Messing with Genre: Crossing Boundaries in the Name of the Story.  So if you might be interested in that, plea...

Reviews and a Giveaway!

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I noticed recently that most… okay, all… of my books are a bit short of reviews on Amazon.  Reviews (even ones that say they didn’t like the book!) are incredibly, incredibly helpful to authors, because they boost a book’s visibility.  And they, y’know, provide readers with a lot of information about whether a particular book or author might be something they’d like to try.

But I know that writing and posting reviews can be a chore.  So I thought maybe we could make it into something fun, an...

Woo-hoo, short story time!

[image error]The Dream Taker is out today!

It probably seems a bit over the top to be all excited and celebratory about what’s actually a very long short story, but I’m really, really excited that this little book is out in the world.  I had the MOST FUN EVER writing this.  Each day, I absolutely couldn’t wait to sit down and get back into this story.  And it’s kind of been hanging around ever since, waiting for what felt to me like a good time to put it out—and this feels like a good time.

Here’s the blu...

A Book Is a Thing That’s Happening Today!

[image error]Scratch Track is out and available in all the places today!  This is Quinn’s book—we met him a bit in Escaping Indigo.  And here, he finally gets a second chance to fall in love with the drummer, Nicky, he once had a short, intense fling with.  I’ve wanted to write Quinn’s story since I first wrote about him in EI, and I was super excited to get to put his book to paper, so to speak, as a NaNo project this spring.  (NaNo is the best, seriously.)  I also really, really wanted to write about re...

Three Songs for January

Headphones by Walk the Moon

If I have a guilty music pleasure it’s probably listening to Walk the Moon.  But actually, I probably listen to stuff that’s way more cavity-inducingly sweet and/or pop and/or whatever.  And I don’t really believe in guilty pleasures.  I genuinely like Walk the Moon when they come on the radio, no guilt involved.  It’s just that they’re so… not what I usually listen to.  But they kind of snuck up on me on the radio, with their catchy songs and their heartfelt, soar...

Three Songs for December

I thought I’d try to do, like, winter songs or seasonal songs or something, since it is the holiday season (and also winter, here, how about that) but my holiday music listening is, um, zero, these days.  But!  I actually did come up with two marginally wintery songs, plus one song that always reminds me of Christmas but actually isn’t wintery or seasonal in any way.  So. Onward!

 

Lights- M25 version, by Grasscut

I listen to RadioBDC, which is a digital streaming radio out of Boston, and it’...

The continuing list of not-quite-finished-manga: A ramble

[image error]Kagerou Daze by Mahiro Satou and Jin

This is such a weird series because I’m seven volumes into it and I have legitimately no idea what it’s about.  It’s basically been seven volumes of back story, and only now are we starting to jusssst figure out where this is all coming from, or where it might be going.  Who thinks this is a good way to start a story?  And yet… I am totally hooked.

Not only that, but volume to volume—and sometimes within the same volume—the story jumps from one character’s...

Three Songs for November

Cecilia and the Satellite by Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness

I heard this kind of… accidentally.  I flicked on the radio hoping to find something to listen to on my very short drive to work, and this was just starting, and it was perfect.  I know I’ve heard this before, but it never really… struck me.  But this time it did, a lot, and now I can’t stop with it.  I’ve been a big fan of Andrew McMahon for a while—I didn’t really know about Something Corporate, but I really loved Jack’s Mannequi...