Craig Laurance Gidney's Blog, page 73
June 14, 2009
Weird Tales
My reviews of three novels will be featured in the next issue of Weird Tales 353:
Jedediah Berry, The Manual of Detection
Tanith Lee, Tempting the Gods: Selected Stories
Catherynne M. Valente, Palimpsest
June 4, 2009
Birth of the Dragonlady
Birth of the Dragonlady
By Craig Laurance Gidney
Panel One
The salon stands in the middle of the block, between a liquor store and a pawn shop. It’s a block that is never clean: the trashcan are always overflowing, the clumps of paper and leaves scatter, rats lurk, dogshit decorates the tree boxes, cigarette butts smolder and half empty soda bottles spin. It’s a block where grown men will lie anywhere, the bus stop bench, in the middle of the sidewalk. In summer the pavement cracks are filled
June 1, 2009
Lambda Literary Awards
While I did not win (this year!), I had a great time hanging out with all of my fellow nominees and rubbing shoulders with authors I truly admire.
Photo courtesy of Barth Anderson.
May 28, 2009
May 26, 2009
Pictures from the May 24 Lambda Rising Black Pride Panel
(Photos courtesy of Steven G. Fullwood)
G. Winston James, Lisa C. Moore, CLG, Pamela Sneed
CLG, pontificating
CLG, signing
May 25, 2009
Lambda Rising Event
The Lambda Rising event was a great success! I was on a spirited panel with Redbone Press publisher Lisa C. Moore, author G. Winston James, and poet Pamela Sneed. About 30-40 people were present. The staff at Lambda Rising Bookstore asked us a few questions, mostly about publishing and writing as POC LGTB (lots of acronyms!), opened up the floor for questions for about 15 minutes. About 4 copies of Sea, Swallow Me were signed and sold.
May 18, 2009
DC BLACK PRIDE AUTHOR PANEL ON MAY 24TH
WHAT: Black Pride Author Panel
WHEN: Sunday May 24th, 2009 at 6:30pm
WHERE: Lambda Rising Bookstore, 1625 Connecticut Ave NW Washington, DC 20009
WHO:
1) Lisa C. Moore
2) Craig Laurance Gidney
3) G. Winston James
4) Steven Fullwood
April 23, 2009
After Elton, forthcoming Lethe title.
After Elton mentioned Sea, Swallow Me in a brief round up of current fiction, here. (It’s at the very end.)
I just finished editing the text of a forthcoming romantic fantasy for Lethe Press, Dan Stone’s The Rest of Our Lives. I think people will like this mix of romance, magic and mayhem. The potential cover is below.
April 17, 2009
April 3, 2009
New hat
I am now the managing editor at Lethe Press. One of my goals is to get the Tincture imprint–which focuses on writing by g/l/t/b of color — off the ground. I’ve been doing it for a little under month, and I’m enjoying helping other authors and bring books to life immensely.
