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Book Bites – Shokupan (Milk Loaf Bread) with Beth Cato

Book Bites is Cooking the Books‘ more easygoing cousin. Authors talk about their book and share a recipe, all in one tasty bite.

Beth Cato’s Bready or Not blog (and the things that emerge from her kitchen) is drool-worthy and she’s reliable for making people hungry on Twitter. She’s also one of the nicest people I know, and a great advocate for the community. She’s visiting Book Bites today to talk about her latest book from Harper,Breath of Earth.

Amazon | Barnes & Noble|| Poisoned Pen (ord...

My MidAmerica II Con Schedule

MidAmericaCon II in Kansas City is just a week away! Hope to see you there. Here’s my schedule: (the writers’ workshop is a closed event)

Writers Workshop 1A

Thursday 10:00 – 12:00 –Fran Wilde, Anna Kashina

Kaffeeklatsch: Charles Gannon, Gerald Nordley, Jeff Sturgeon, Fran Wilde –

Thursday 13:00 – 14:00, 2211 (KKs) (Kansas City Convention Center)

Being Michael Swanwick

Thursday 16:00 – 17:00, Tucker Stage (Kansas City Convention Center) –Join us for a lively and engaging interview featu...

Gaboileck Chili: Book Bites with Patrick Swenson

Book Bites is Cooking the Books‘ more easygoing cousin. Authors talk about their book and share a recipe, all in one tasty bite.

Patrick Swenson’s Fairwood Press publishes many wonderful books (check them out!) including new short story collections from Tina Connolly and Carolyn Yoachim. Patrick also runs the popular Rainforest Writers Retreat in the pacific northwest. And he’s an international man of mystery …kidding! Patrick isthe author of the Ultra Universe and the pre-novella Simply Rub...

Podcast Roundup! From Milking Servers to Space Hedgehogs

I’ve been a guest on several fantastic podcasts lately – check them out!

Ditchdiggers – hosts Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace invited me to the server farm (whose farm you might well ask) and we had a blast rolling around on Segways while trying to see who could milk a server the fastest. No really, all true. These twoare great to talk with, no matter how many angry servers are chasing you to the back fence, and Ditch Diggers is a perennial must-listen.

Eating the Fantastic – Scott Edelman and...

Space Weevils: Cooking the Books with David D. Levine

Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Powell’s | Indiebound

Award-winning author, David D. Levine‘s first novel, Arabella of Mars, is a science-fantasy that takes you to the stars! Here’s the publisher’s lead:

Since Newton witnessed a bubble rising from his bathtub, mankind has sought the stars. When William III of England commissioned Capt. William Kidd to command the first expedition to Mars in the late 1600s, he proved that space travel was both possible and profitable.

Now, one century later, a plant...

Going Home Again: A New Bookstore and Old Memories

Sometimes I joke that I was raised by a library and two sailboats.

That’s not actually true.

I was raised by a library (Tredyffrin* Library to be exact) a couple of sailboats, anda local, independent bookstore.

photo via the Radnor & Wayne Patch network.

The bookstore in question was called The Readers’ Forum and it existed somewhereoutside of time and logic a half milefrom my home. Sam and Al, thetwo guys who ran the place, filled the storewith a fantastic collection of poetry and new fictio...

Xiao Xiao & Pickled White Radish: Book Bites with Joyce Chng

Book Bites is Cooking the Books‘ more easygoing cousin. Authors talk about their book and share a recipe, all in one tasty bite.

I met Joyce Chng at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA), andI’ve known her longer on social media… she’s witty and fun, and very kind — come meet her! Today, Book Bites travels to Singapore to visit Joyce and check out her young adult novel Xiao Xiao and the Dragon’s Pearl!

Available on Gumroad &Amazon. Also free to read on Wattpad. The...

See you at Readercon!

I’m excited to be at Readercon from July 7-10 in Quincy, MA! The entire program looks amazing. Will I see you there? Here’s my schedule: Friday July 08 1:30 PM B Reading: Fran Wilde. Fran Wilde. Fran Wilde reads an excerpt from Cloudbound, coming out in September.
5:00 PM E Autographs. Catherynne M. Valente, Fran Wilde.
Saturday July 09 10:00 AM CL Kaffeeklatsch. Gemma Files, Fran Wilde.

12:00 PM C Engineering in Fantasy. Scott Andrews, Richard Butner, John Chu, Ken Liu, Fran Wilde (...

I’ll Just Put the Kettle On: Cooking the Books with Emma Newman

Emma Newman, photo credit: Lou Abercrombie

Last fall, I was invited totheTea & Jeopardy podcast for … you guessed it: tea. Along the way, I engaged in Mild Peril and was sung to by chickens. The delight didn’t end there, for I had the distinct pleasure of getting to know author Emma Newman, the host of Tea & Jeopardy.

Now it’s my great pleasure to have Emmaover tothis side of the ocean, in order to discuss, among other things: tea, masked balls, community, outrage, activism, and cake. We do b...

Ruminations & Alaska Surprise: Book Bites with Kameron Hurley

Book Bites is Cooking the Books‘ more easygoing cousin. Authors talk about their book and share a recipe, all in one tasty bite.

Author Kameron Hurley’s “We Have Always Fought” essay stormed the Internet in 2013, debuting on Aidan Moher’s award-winning blog “A Dribble of Ink“. However, the essaywasn’t a standaloneshot over the bow of the SS. Patriarchy. Hurley’s essays and her fiction (as well as her mighty brain) are everywhere, and now many of the nonfiction bits are collected in a new book...