Laura Anne Gilman's Blog, page 14

Updates! And Covers! for THE DEVIL'S WEST!

But you've got to click through to my website to see 'em.

*waving farewell to the modern life*

After taking time off for ...Stuff, I'm back working on the Yet-Untitled Book 3.  Back to 1802 we go...

And we seem to have turned the ouch-meter up, if the next section's outline is any judge.

Oh Gabriel, bebe, I'm sorry.  But the author is a cruel god.

New! Non-Fiction!

Before I disappear for a day or revising the entire first third of the book (sob), lemme tell you about a Thing! Even better, A Thing I'm In!


The Usual Path to Publication

27 stories about 27 ways in
edited by Shannon Page
$2.99
A BVC Original

With as many "success stories" as there are authors, there is no usual path to publication. Here, for your edification and entertainment, are a double dozen (and more) examples.

An essay collection of the many Unusual, inspirational, bizarre, even dreadful tales of how writers actually got published -- and how even that is not the end of the story.

http://bookviewcafe.com/bookstore/book/the-usual-path-to-publication/

The joys of biking...

There are people who use a bicycle for fun, people who bike for exercise, and people who bike for transport. I am - for the most part - in the last category, with the second category being an unexpected but appreciated bonus, and the first requiring some sort of destination (which brings it back to the third category) rather than a random ride to nowhere simply to be on the bike.

However, there is a pleasure I've recently discovered that may fall entirely in the first category: that of biking past the great blue heron who has taken up residence along the river, and saying good morning to them. Or being able to slow down and watch as a river otter swims across said river. Or, as happened this morning, looking up and seeing a bald eagle cruising for salmon, close enough to see details on their tailfeathers.

You miss this, in a car. You miss this if you're jogging, headphones on and eyes on the trail, or zipping along on a racing bike, head down and time sprints in mind. But the combination of slow riding and keeping your eyes open...

But I really need to start carrying my (*^*&P camera with me.

Patreon Updatery

BTW and FYI, we're $32/month shy of me adding a monthly rant/essay to my patreon (first up: when history fucks with the writer). If that sounds like your kind of thing...

(Come for the cat noir crackfic! stay for the rants! Or come for the rants and stay for the crackfic! Both are good choices!)

oh well.

I wanted to like Houdini and Doyle, I really did.

It just didn't take. At all. Anything.

why this business will make you crazy if you let it...

Twitter screen cap taken this evening, no manipulation.  Two very different reactions to the same book.

Reader Alert!

We're updating the website, so if you have any Qs for the SILVER ON THE ROAD/The Devil's West FAQ, now and here is the time and place...

New Story! New Anthology! OUT OF TUNE 2 now available!

No, seriously, I've been so crazed this week, I missed this! OUT OF TUNE 2 is out!

(including my short story based on a Mexican corrido, and, if you squint a little, set in the same world as The Devil's West...)

The music playing in the night…whispering from the shadows. Haunting melodies and old songs sung by ghostly voices.

New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry presents a brand new collection of original stories by some of today’s top authors of horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction. Each tale draws strange inspiration from classic folks songs and murder ballads from around the world.

OUT OF TUNE Volume 2 includes strange and disturbing stories by Rachel Caine, Cherie Priest, David Mack, Dan Abnett, Laura Anne Gilman, Delilah Dawson, Alison Pang, David Schow, James A. Moore, Nik Vincent-Abnett, J.C. Koch and Eric J. Guignard.

Buy it here and get the digital edition free with your paper copy!

Because I need a new coffee mug anyway...

I am, for Reasons, thinking of making up a Devil's West-specific coffee mug.

"One more for the Road" or something like that, maybe, plus the Devil's sigil on the other side.

If I were to do so, for a reasonable (read: as inexpensive as I can manage) price, would anyone out there be interested in same?