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June 3, 2015
Book Bites: S.M. Stirling’s The Change Anthology
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Book Bites is Cooking the Books‘ more easygoing sibling. Authors talk about their book and share a recipe, all in one tasty bite.
S.M. Stirling’s military and adventurescience fiction spans numerous series including Shadowspan, Draka, and The Change (Nantucket & Emberverse series) – the latter featuring a world without electricity, internal combustion, and firearms.
This week, The Change series has a new addition – an anthology featuringstories by authors in...
June 1, 2015
BEA & BookCon Pics: Just Like Being There
Tor Class of 2015: Fran Wilde, Ilana Myer, Principal John Scalzi, Seth Dickinson, Lawrence M. Schoen
Last week was amazing – I joined Tor Books and Macmillan at Book Expo America and BookCon and met book bloggers, book store owners, more librarian warlords and wizards than I can count, and fellow authors and editors for three amazing days. It was a week of firsts – first BEA, first BookCon, first novel autographing session, first time asked by Scalzi which type of pudding I’d rather drown in…...
May 22, 2015
Book Bites: Corsair by James Cambias
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Book Bites is Cooking the Books‘ more easygoing sibling. Authors talk about their book and share a recipe, all in one tasty bite.
Since the first time I served on a food panel with James Cambias at LoneStarCon, I’ve been impressed by his epic familiarity with foodie goodness, his bow ties and sartorial flair, and his ability to converse on many topics. Moreover, I’m delighted by the premise of his new book, Corsair (Tor, May 2015), a near-future, hard-SF thril...
May 20, 2015
May 18, 2015
UPDRAFT – The Last ARC Giveaway STARTS TODAY
This gnome wants to keep the ARC — but you can win it… then check out the storify to see how all this came about.
Last week I asked Twitter and Facebook how to best give away my last remaining ARC of Updraft – and you all were amazing with the suggestions.
I’ve thought long and hard over the weekend about what we should do… and while the household would seriously love some Chicago Pizza and I love all the great ideas, I’m going to try to even the playing field for this one… and keep a couple...
May 14, 2015
Eat Your Heart Out: Cooking the Books with Amanda Downum
Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Indiebound | Simon & Schuster
Author Amanda Downum’sNecromancer Chronicles (The Drowning City, The Bone Palace, and Kingdoms of the Dust), and her numerous short stories explore dark and, sometimes,damp corners of fantasy, all while enveloping her readers in a cloud of vivid taste and smell. Amanda Downum is a cook of the unusual, you see… including several particular dishes she discusses while visiting Cooking the Books.
As importantly as those dishes, her latest no...
May 11, 2015
BEA and BookCon – May 28-30
Two weeks from now, Book Expo America (BEA) begins, followed by BookCon and with those, Tor Books is celebrating 35 years of publishing. They’ve got some special things cooked up, including a Tor: The Next Generation! quiz show … and I’ll be there! (I’m nowwondering if there will be TNG shirts, and if so, what color…) Let me know if you’ll be there… (If you can’t make it, I’ll be posting picspamfrom my first BEA over on instagram, tumblr, and probablytwittertoo.)
Here’s my schedule! :
Thursda...
May 6, 2015
Book Bites: Tide of Shadows by Aidan Moher
Book Bites is Cooking the Books more easygoing sibling. Authors talk about their book and share a recipe, all in one tasty bite.
Were soglad to have the charming, Hugo-award-winning editor of A Dribble of Ink,Aidan Moherhere to talk about hisnew collection of short stories, Tide of Shadows and Other Stories. The collectionoftales, which takes readers fromstar-faring military science fiction to thedragon-infested kingdom of Copperkettle Vale, debuts today!
(also since we w...
April 29, 2015
This Will Be Great: TMoms Super SFF Poetry Night
If you’re near Philly tomorrow night, come down to The Tattooed Mom for an evening of poetry, geek style, to round out National Poetry month! There’ll be an open mic, some verse of mine, and great prizes. [More info.]
April 26, 2015
Live, from Uncanny Cabin
Pro Tip: When editors extraordinaire Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas ask if you want to be an Uncanny Magazine kickstarter reward… for values of Kickstarter rewards that include a weekend at a cabin in the woods? You say yes.
little did we know…
Thought you all might like to tag along, sohere’spicspam and various other implements of documentation. Including fanart (!),an accidental musical interlude, and a live Twitter play…read on, brave friends —
There was a lot of delicious food, t...
