Craig Laurance Gidney's Blog, page 71

Orycon 32 Schedule

I appear on the following panels with, among others, Nisi Shawl and Mary Robinette Kowal.  I'm quite excited.  My first time in Portland.

Sat Nov 13, 10:00 – 11:00 a.m.: Gender and Writing

Gender free? Gender neutral? Stereotyping? How gender affects our writing. What writers do to write effectively in the opposite gender's point of view, and whether they really do get away with it.

Nisi Shawl, Keffy R. M. Kehrli, J. A. Pitts, Craig Gidney, and Donna McMahon in Jefferson/Adams

Sat Nov 13, 12:00 noon – 1:00 p.m.: Writing the Other: Races and Cultures

Speculative fiction often takes steps toward being more egalitarian, but there are still huge challenges ahead. Issues of appropriation, respect, stereotypes, and taking chances. How to get educated and still write naturally and from the heart.

Nisi Shawl, Donna McMahon, Rory Miller, Craig Gidney, and Mary Robinette Kowal in Roosevelt.

Capclave

I will be at Capclave (a con just outside of DC) this weekend.  I'm not on any panels, but I will hanging around and might have some goodies from Lethe Press!

Two New Story Acceptances

My stories Circus Boy Without A Safety Net (reprint) and Bereft have been accepted for the YA anthology From Where They Sit:  Black Writers Write Black Youth: Collected Youth (Tiny Satchel Press).

Disturbed by the Bewitching Tanith Lee

She's plugging her new book of gay/lesbian gothic stories (DISTURBED BY HER SONG) she channeled from the mysterious Garber clan.  You can read it here!

Strange Horizons 10th Anniversary Reading at the Library of Congress

Heear me read with a bunch of other great writers/performers on Wednesday, September 8 at the Library of Congress!

Interview with author Hal Duncan (Outakes)

I interviewed author Hal Duncan for the blog The New Gay.  You can read it here.

There were two questions that I edited out, for space considerations.  You can read some interesting "outtakes" here!

Do you have any advice for beginning authors?

Funny enough, I've been working on one of those "ten rules" things just recently, after doing some paid critique, writing reports on manuscripts by writers who sometimes don't even know the very basics, in truth. So here's what I've got so far:

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Where I'll be

Fate willing, I plan to attend the following conventions:

Capclave 10 (October 22-24)

Orycon 32 (November 12-14)

Saints and Sinners 2011 (May 12-15)

Forthcoming Tanith Lee book

I've spent the past year working on the release of the new Tanith Lee collection of fiction, called Disturbed By Her Song.  It's a collection of her channeled fiction–the French Jewish Esther Garber and half-brother Judas Garbah.  It's beautifully written, magical, historical. strange…I can hardly wait until it hits the shelves–virtual and otherwise….

Sea, Swallow Me available as a PDF for the iPad….

Sea, Swallow Me & Other Stories may be read as a PDF on your computer/iPad here!

Thank you to Benito and Zahrawithaz!

Blogger Benito Corral (on DirtySexyBenny) had lovely things to say about Sea, Swallow Me.

Blogger Zahrawithaz graciously included Sea, Swallow Me in the list of More than 50 books by Queer POC.