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Contest!

The sale for the StoryBundle is in its final three days, so I thought I’d gin up some interest by running a contest. Identify these objects: First person to identify the subjects of one of the two photos below will receive a free StoryBundle— which means you get eight whole books for zero money! There’s no point in identifyingboth subjects, because that wouldn’t get you any more books than identifying one, and would deny someone else a lot of reading pleasure. If you win, I’ll send you a code...

The Final Hours

My 99-cent sale onHardwired is entering its final hours. Officially the sale ends at midnight Friday night, but (as sales remain brisk) I’ll likely keep the sale going until sales un-brisk themselves. So if you want the book, better move briskly! Find it atAmazon,iBooks,Google Play,Smashwords,Barnes & Noble, andKobo.

One Week to Go

Just a reminder that theStoryBundleis still available, but will disappear after one weeks. And, to remind again, you pay what you want. Name your own price forErrantry: Strange Stories by Elizabeth Hand, Lewis Shiner’s Collected Stories, and my own Green Leopard Plague and Other Stories. But if you pay at least $12, you get five more books! Books by Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy, Lisa Mason, C.C. Finlay, and Kathe Koja. (Of course, you can paymore than twelve bucks. Don’t let me stop you.) Che...

Two Weeks to Go

Just a reminder that theStoryBundleis still available, but will disappear after two weeks. And, to remind again, you pay what you want. Name your own price forErrantry: Strange Stories by Elizabeth Hand, Lewis Shiner’s Collected Stories, and my own Green Leopard Plague and Other Stories. But if you pay at least $12, you get five more books! Books by Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy, Lisa Mason, C.C. Finlay, and Kathe Koja. (Of course, you can paymore than twelve bucks. Don’t let me stop you.) Che...

Reveal’d

Here’s the cover reveal of my short novel featuring Caroline Sula. (Art by the utterly terrificJaime Jones.) The book will be released on October 4 in both trade paperback and e-formats, and you can preorder from Barnes & Noble, Amazon,Kobo (ebook only), and Google (also ebook only). I assume iBooks will have it soon, but they seem not to have it available as yet. To find out more aboutImpersonations, check here.

Smokestack Lightning

Heading into the weekend, let’s flash back to 1965, when the Rolling Stones consented to appear on the American music programShindig (created and hosted by Jack Good, who was English). This sort of prime time Bandstand show wasn’t really the Stones’ kind of thing, but they consented to appear only on condition that Howlin’ Wolf be their special guest. So here’s the Wolf, singing one of his early hits, “How Many More Years,” with the Rolling Stones sitting worshipfully at his feet. (Quick: tr...

Award Winner

Congratulations to Taos Toolbox veteran Fran Wilde, whose Updraftwon the Andre Norton Award for young adult fiction, and also the Compton Crook award for best science fiction, horror, or fantasy novel (no age mentioned). Updraft was workshopped at Toolbox, and despite being perhaps the most altitude-impaired studentever at Toolbox, Fran seems to have paid some attention. Congratulations also to Toolbox grad Lawrence Schoen, who was nominated for the Nebula forBarsk, but ended up coming home w...

Hardwired Sale

My best-selling book of all time,Hardwired, is now on sale for a mere 99 cents. Feel free to pick it up at Amazon, iBooks, Google Play, Smashwords, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo. I’ve never putHardwired on sale because it’s always sold so well at the ordinary price. But then I reflected that more of my readers started withHardwired than anything else. It’salways been a sort of gateway drug into my other fiction. So I should probably open the gateway by putting it on sale, and a hope a lot of peop...

Reviews Too Late: Admiral

The original title of this Dutch film isMichiel de Ruyter,but as this title means nothing to audiences outside the United Provinces, the American release is retitledAdmiral. (Thus prompting confusion with the Korean filmAdmiral, about the naval hero Yi Sun-sin, orAdmiral,the Russian film about the naval hero Alexander Kolchak. This particularAdmiralis about a Dutch naval hero so revered in his own country that he is probably the only person in history to be awarded the rank of Lieutenant-Adm...

Stories. Bundled.

Once again I have a book available as part of a StoryBundle. The last one sold like hotcakes on a winter’s morning, and this one should as well, because StoryBundle is an amazing freaking good deal. Basically, you pay whatever you want for the first three books, which areErrantry: Strange Stories by Elizabeth Hand, Lewis Shiner’sCollected Stories, and my ownGreen Leopard Plague and Other Stories. Pay 99 cents! Pay 10 bucks! Go ahead, pay half a million dollars— I dare you! But if you pay at...