Marjorie M. Liu's Blog, page 6
June 30, 2015
A mini update…
I used to blog a lot more than I do now — I’ve been hammered with deadlines, which is excellent, but it means that Twitter is far more attractive: just a few seconds here and there, and I’ve made a “post”. But it’s nice having a space where I can go deeper.
I spent all last week in Miami teaching a Popular Fiction workshop at VONA. More than once, the students and I were asked to define Popular Fiction, and it’s simple: just think of all the genres folks love to read — science fiction and fan...
June 3, 2015
Special Edition: NYC
Summer is here (even if it doesn’t feel like it right now in Boston), and that means convention season! I’m making an appearance at Special Edition this weekend in New York City, and can’t wait to see all of you. It’s taking place at Pier 94 (711 12th Avenue, New York, NY) and you’ll be able to find me at Booth J9.
There’s no limit to what I’ll sign — bring as much as you want. I’ll be around most of the weekend, but here are the times when I’ll absolutely be at my table (along with two panel...
February 28, 2015
Tokyo Food Porn: Part 2
A full week has officially passed since we landed in Tokyo, and it’s mostly been spent working on Monstress. Still, a girl has to eat. Here are the best three meals of the last couple days, in order of consumption:
Sapporo Dominica
Best. Soup. Curry. Ever. That’s all you really need to know about this small upstairs restaurant in Ginza. This was our second time at Dominica — we found it on the last day of our last trip — last year — and haven’t stopped talking about it since. Being food nerds,...
February 25, 2015
Tokyo: Eats
I’m not saying I’ll blog every day about this trip to Tokyo, but there are some things I’d like to talk about that can’t fit into 140 characters — such as food, for example.
I like to eat. More importantly, I need to stay fed or else…bad things start to happen. Low blood sugar is not a good look on me. Fortunately, Japan is the one country in the world where it’s impossible to go two steps without there being food for sale. I’m not exaggerating, either. Food is everywhere here.
Earlier on insta...
February 7, 2015
Appearances: Boskone & MIT
I’ve lived in Boston for four years, and have never attended Boskone. The timing was always off — either I’d be out of town, or…well, out of town.
But this year it’s different! I’ll be signing and reading from one of my novels, and participating in two panels — one on superheroes, and the other on women in comics. Also, I have another event this week on February 12th — over at MIT I’ll be in conversation with Bobbie Chase, Editorial Director of DC Comics. The public is welcome to attend. Here...
January 9, 2015
Monstress
Well, yesterday was a big day.
I took the stage at Image Expo to discuss my new creator-owned title, MONSTRESS, which I’m working on with Sana Takeda (who is brilliant and kicking ass). I gave an extensive interview at Newsarama, so check that out — but in short, it’s a privilege and honor to be creating this book with her at Image, where we can finally stretch our wings. We’ve also got Rus Wooton on letters and design, and editing is being handled by Jennifer Smith, my former assistant editor...
January 5, 2015
VONA
If you had asked me ten years ago — or even a couple years ago — whether I could ever see myself teaching I would have said, “No way.” I didn’t think I was cut out for it. But I began to realize that for those same ten years I’d been poo-pooing my ability to talk coherently about writing, I’d been doing just that: discussing process, structure, character, and more; on panels, in interviews, on this blog, to other writers. So when I was invited to teach a some masterclasses at various literary...
January 2, 2015
Character: Dialogue
I’m writing a new comic (which I’ll finally be able to discuss next week after the announcement at Image Expo) and this early in the work I’m still learning the voices of my characters. Some of them are emerging full-born, chatty and easy — others, I’m having to tease and tweak, and experiment with. It’s fine, either way. I enjoy this part of the process. But it has reminded me again of the differences between writing comics and novels.
Good dialogue always matters. Always, always. But let’s s...
December 30, 2014
2014 via Instragram
It’s hard to sum up a year — so much happens, so much that’s small and lovely and difficult and beautiful — but moments get captured, nonetheless. At least, those moments I choose to share. Very few of the photographs I take end up on Instagram. What people usually see are cats, food, sunsets, snippets of my life here and there. It’s not entirely representative of who I am, but there’s a definite theme that’s all me, and all true.
That said, here’s what my 2014 looked like, via Instagram.
