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February 19, 2015
Tea(s) in London(s): Cooking the Books with V.E. Schwab
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V.E. Schwab’s 2014 adult fantasy debut from Tor Books, Vicious, delighted readers.��This year, V. begins another��amazing series: A Darker Shade of Magic.�� ADSOM (look for the hashtag this week and next on twitter)��introduces multiple Londons: Red, Gray, and White… as well as a dangerous, but disappeared,��Black London.
V. was kind enough to sit down with Cooking the Books to discuss many things, including A Darker Shade of Magic,��coming from the future, a...
February 5, 2015
Book Bites: Stranger & Hostage by Rachel Manija Brown and Sherwood Smith
Very excited to announce a new column, called��Book Bites!��Book Bites is Cooking the Books‘ more easygoing sibling. Author’s talk about their book and share a recipe, all in one tasty bite.
Even more exciting are our inaugural guests: Sherwood Smith and Rachel Manija Brown��have dropped by��to share a bite of their book HOSTAGE��with you.
Book Bites, with Sherwood Smith and Rachel Manija Brown
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Our YA series, The Change, starting wi...
January 29, 2015
See You at Boskone!
Food, monsters, and world-saving fashion panels! A reading! A��contest judging!I’m very excited for Boskone 2015. If you’re in Boston the weekend of February 13-15, come say ‘hi’!�� Also, check out this fun��Q&A Boskone did with me… and more��great interviews��too. ��The whole schedule looks great��–check out the main website so you don’t miss anything.
Here’s my schedule: ��
Friday:
Food in Fiction
Friday 15:00 – 15:50, Burroughs (Westin)
Stories that make you go, “Yum!” How do you describe food...
January 23, 2015
Beneath Ceaseless Pies: Cooking the Books with Editor Scott H. Andrews
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Best of Year Five
Beneath Ceaseless Skies magazine began in 2008, when Scott H. Andrews noticed a need for more venues that celebrated secondary world short fiction. (And we’re very glad he did!) When you visit their website (repeatedly,) you’ll learn: “Beneath Ceaseless Skies is an online magazine of “literary adventure fantasy”:�� fantasy set in secondary-world or historical settings, with a literary focus on the characters.�� BCS […] was named Runner-Up for the Milli...
January 14, 2015
The Finish Line
setting a high bar…
:: warning klaxon :: here be spoilers :: warning ::
I’m thinking a lot about endings again, as one does, repeatedly. How do they work? (Like magnets, right?)
In doing so, I’ve gathered some favorites, and made a widget. Let’s see if��we��can match��the ending with the writer…
(I’ll post the answers next Tuesday in the comments.)
Take Our Poll
January 2, 2015
2014’s Top Six Posts
Here they are:
Before the Mast and On the Deck of the World. An intensely personal post. I’m very grateful it got the reception it did, and for the support and thoughtful words of so many when I posted it.
Magic Wants to Be Fed: Cooking the Books with Robin Hobb.��Robin Hobb. Talking about food. And writing. And answering questions from Reddit/r/fantasy readers. Such a fun interview to do, with a fantastic author.
Many Things at Once: Cooking the Books with Russ Galen.��Wherein I drove my agent...
December 30, 2014
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US Patent #410243 – An automatic grain weigher
I try to spend a lot of time in these parts talking about people who are not me��– from Cooking the Books features to keeping track of who��I’m reading and what I’ve loved, to talking about tools of the trade and things I’ve learned that might be useful. (not to mention a few posts that are pure��rantypants handwaving.) ��But one thing I’ve done for the past couple of years that feels very different��is an annual numbers / accountability post. I’m...
December 19, 2014
The Infamous Lasagna Scene: Cooking the Books with Sara B. Elfgren and Mats Strandberg
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Welcome to Nene Ormes, Cooking the Books International Correspondent!��
Hello dear listeners!
This is the first Cooking the Books out of Sweden and I, your constantly curious gourmonaut, had the opportunity to travel to Stockholm to visit with Sara B Elfgren and Mats Strandberg. Together they not only served me tea and a proper tray of seven cookies for fika, they have also written the Engelsfors-triology and that in turn have swept over the world. We spent a l...
December 9, 2014
2014 Favorite Reads
A wealth of��great things happened on the page this past year — sometimes��serving as a balm or a fuse for dealing with��world events.
2014 bookshelf pic (selected links below) — Lots more��wonderful��books here!
As usual, I’m scattershot��about keeping track of my��goodreads. I wibbled��about short stories, novellas, novellettes and novels here on these very pages. I shared��what-I’m-reading posts��at the Between the Bookends columns hosted by Geekmom. And, to my great delight, my review of Ei...
December 4, 2014
Owning My Notebook Habit …
So a few weeks ago, the lovely Shveta Thakrar asked me about the piles of notebooks I have in my office.
What The Author Sees.
I don’t have piles. I have a couple notebooks, maybe. Piles would make me a tree killer.��That’s what I thought.
What the world sees. (part of it. There’s also a shelf of them. No you can’t see that.)
Piles. STACKS. One for each completed story, sometimes several��each for various novels. A couple for ideas and snapshots and silly sentences.
I’ve mentioned them in my��writ...
