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Six Things Make a Post! Podcasts, YouTube, Anthology, & A Recliner

A couple fun things in the air:

Sword & Laser interviewed me yesterday, to coordinate with their June read of Updraft. Keep an eye on their site/twitter/this station for an update when the interview is up. (you might should anyway, last month’s interview with Ramez Naam was excellent). The audience questions were fantastic. (I have questions about this purported giant space hedgehog…) I also talked with Ditchdiggers‘ Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace (hey, Matt’sgot a new Sin du Jourout!) this m...

Bengaw Stuffed Flatbread: Book Bites with Anna Kashina

Author Anna Kashina‘s Majat Code trilogyfrom Angry Robotis tearing up adventure fantasy. Today, she’s visiting Book Bites to talk about food, worldbuilding, and flatbread.
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As a fantasy author, I pay a lot of attention to world building and spend extensive time drawing maps, defining languages, deities, clothing, and occasionally exotic curse words. But even more importantly, when I create a new world I always think of food. No world building...

The Official Cloudbound Bookplate Preorder How-To Guide

Pre-order now! Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Powell’s | Indiebound

Hello friends! I am slowly getting my feet back under me after a crazy, turbulent, amazing month. I’ll update and post photos soon. Meantime, I’ve been getting a lot of requests that I post the how-to guide for how to get the Cloudbound bookplate.

That is a thing I can do!

The bookplate for Cloudboundis so cool. Drawn by Raq, who also drew the Cooking the Books logo. Yes,it’s a map, but it’s muchmore than that.

Secrets will be rev...

Food as Current Reality: Book Bites with Malka Older

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

I first met Malka by reading her work (as one does), but then wegot to hang out at a restaurant off Harvard Square during Vericon last year. Now she sends me all the best squid & technology news (sometimes simultaneously!). So glad toknow her, and her wonderful book INFOMOCRACY, out today from Tor.com Publishing.

Malka Older is a writer, international...

Shigeumchi: Book Bites with Yoon Ha Lee

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

Yoon Ha Lee

Yoon Ha Lee’s short fiction has appeared in Tor.com, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, and other venues. His short story collection Conservation of Shadowscame out from Prime Books in 2013. You can find him online at http://yoonhalee.com. He lives in Louisiana with his family and an extremely lazy cat, and has not yet...

The Kitchen Tree: Cooking the Books with Ada Palmer

Amazon | Powell’s | Barnes & Noble | Indiebound | Goodreads

I heard Ada Palmer before I met her. One of the primary singers and songwriters for the a capella group Sassafrass, Palmer has performedat SFF conventions for many years. At my first (and–sob–last) Farthing Party, I got to see members of Sassafrass perform live, and I continue to make every effort to hear them at every occasion.

As compelling as that was, that same weekend, I also heard Palmer speak eloquently on a range of literary...

The Truth About Beneath Ceaseless Skies

I’m going to tell you a secret about Scott Andrews, the editor of Beneath Ceaseless Skies, but you need to keep it under your hat, ok?

I mean, it’s their 200th issue celebration (and fundraiser) coming up and it would be terrible if a thing like this got out into the open while they’re celebrating.

You ready?

Here goes.

Friends, Scott Andrews is not a singular entity. There’s not one Scott Andrews, there are hundreds. Clones, maybe, plus a few robot-Scotts, ancillaries, possibly an Elven one...

Speechless, Nearly – Gratitude Post Plus Some Secret Facts…

Friends,

The past sixdays have been filled with your messages, emails, DMs, and so much community. I wish I could draw or put better words to how grateful I am to know you all, to know (and to meet sometimes for the first time in person) the amazing authorson each of the Nebula and Norton lists, as well as on the Compton Crook Award list. These are all wonderful books. You have some great reading ahead of you, as well as what you’ve read already. (ps OMG I got to meet N.K. Jemisin and CJ Cher...

Soon Dubu: Book Bites with Madeline Ashby

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

Madeline Ashby Photo credit: Kayleigh McCollum Photography

Madeline Ashbyis a science fiction writer, futurist, speaker, and immigrant living in Toronto. She writes a column for the Ottawa Citizen. She has written narrative scenarios and science fiction prototypes for organizations like Intel Labs, the Institute for the Future, SciFutures, Nesta, Data & Society, The...

Launch Day: The Jewel & Her Lapidary! Here’s where to find me…

The little novella that could – The Jewel and Her Lapidary– part of my gemworld stories – hits readers and bookstands today. If you pre-ordered (thank you!), it’s arriving soon, and if you’re looking for it, it’s out Now!

Here’s where you can find me and The Jewel And Her Lapidarythis week:

iO9.com listed Jewel as one of the great books you don’t want to miss in May! (Check out all of the books!) Artist Tommy Arnold posted at Tor.com yesterday about the steps involved in making cover art fo...