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UPTEMBER Week 2! Events – A betting pool – and Audio!

Updraft has been out for a week! And what a week!

My first Dragoncon! Panels! Reading! Signings! MAYHEM.
Decatur Book Festival was wonderful! Great panel with my fellow Tor Author Cindy Dees!

Plus, so far, I’ve seen Updraftreviewed in Turkish (!)*, heard that a friend can’t read it because her son stole it and wouldn’t give it back, and I’ve been asked many times when the next one is coming out. Folks are commenting on Goodreads and weighing in over at [the bookstore of their choice]. Th...

New UPDRAFT Story At BCS, Launch Pics, Dragoncon & Book Festival

Coming to you at the crack of dawn from the airport… let’s see if I can post on three hours’ sleep!

The launch party at Barnes & Noble Rittenhouse Square was amazing. Thanks to everyone who came out, or were there in spirit. I have photos for you!

packed house!signing line

standing room only!

Ditto the Doylestown Bookstore event, where Chuck Wendig grilled me on the finer points of UPDRAFT, and I tried to ask him questions back… he’s like question-teflon, that one. Photos for that too!...

Uptember minus 2: Blog Tour, Event News, Excess Energy

Twodays to go! I am preparing all sorts of surprises and spreading them around the internets for you. Below you’ll find the first half of the Blog Tour, more Event News, and a personal high that I’m still staring at. More than one, actually:

Barnes & Noble named Updraft one of the six weirdest fantasy worlds ever created, alongside CJ Cherryh, Chuck Wendig, China Mieville, Martha Wells, and Adrian Tchaikovsky

And in an incredible list of “Things I’ve read that are really, really good”author E...

Uptember minus 7

Seven days and we rock Uptember my friends.

I’ve acquired even more items for the Uptember online launch raffle and giveaway shenanigans – including books from Aliette de Bodard and Resurrection House, as well as the aforementioned lawsmarkers, invisible ink, and tentacle paper art. To enter, take a photo of yourself reading Updraft before Sept. 7 and post it to twitter, instagram, &/or Facebook, with the #UPDRAFT hashtag – each post is an entry.Tell your friends, too!

Today you can find me...

Book Bites: Press Start to Play with Nicole Feldringer

Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Powell’s | Free Reads

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

I’m so excited to introduce Nicole Feldringer on Book Bites. We’ve known each other a long time, and beta-read for each other for almost exactly that long. Nicole is funny, brilliant, and gets climate better than almost anyone I know. Which is why her story in Press Start to Play, “Outliers,” resonates — because it’s...

Two Weeks to Go!: Gratitude & Launch Raffle

(so tempting to type Launch Waffle in that headline. BUT! I resisted. It is possible I’m getting a little punchy.)

I had things planned for this week’s post – publicity things because that’s what I need to do… except two thingshappened.

Thursday night, thisbook up thereappearedon my doorstep and it’s real (and you’ll have it soon) and it’s shiny… and I lost it a little.

Two days later,I listened toamazing people talk about incredible projects and artistsat the Philly Geek Awards (I was a pre...

An Intimidation of Shrimp: A Cooking the Books Roundtable

An Intimidation of Shrimpisn’ta proper collective noun, but wouldn’t it be wonderful if it was? It snags the imagination, makes you wonder what strange, tiny danger is this?

In Aliette de Bodard‘s short stories, novelettes, novellas, and novelsfood is dangerous, political, intimidating, and delicious — sometimes all of the above at the same time. Aliette’s latestnovel The House of Shattered Wings appears in August from Roc in the US and Gollancz in the UK.

InZen Cho‘s novels, food is as defin...

Book Bites: Jiaozi Dumplings with Michael Swanwick

Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Indiebound | Goodreads

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

Today, my neighbor and friend,author Michael Swanwick, brings to Book Bitessomething a little different. A vision of his latest travels to China with Ellen Datlow and Eileen Gunn, among others. Michael’s book Chasing the Phoenix, a Darger & Surplus novel, comes out from Tor on August 11. If you are in Philadelphia, yo...

How Can There Only Be Four Weeks To Go? All the gifs!

Four weeks until September 1. I… am not ready. no not at all. I mean, I’m looking forward to seeing everyone. And for people to finally be holding my book in their hands… And all the travel. Andpart of me says:Are we there yet?? And the important thing is that the book is ready. So I made some gifs for Updraft, And some people gave me shiny words to put on them, like so: So I made a few more:
Actually, …I made a bunchmore – with thanks to V.E. Schwab for the idea. I’ll post more...

My (mostly set) Sasquan Schedule

In two-and-a-half weeks, I’ll be atSasquan, the 73rd World Science Fiction Convention. Here’s where to find me:

Thursday:

Reading10:00 – 10:30, 303B (CC)
I’ll be reading from Updraft, and answering questions. Also giving away things. It will be a very exciting twenty minutes!

Unseen University –12:00 – 12:45, 401C (CC)
Imagine a world of wizards that’s a combination of Oxbridge, MIT, and a kiddy’s pool. Add in excellent good dinners, design elements by a man named Bloody Stupid Johnson, a...