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November 26, 2014
A Moment of Silence
I’d been thinking about putting up a Thanksgiving post, or a year-in-review gratitude post.
Instead, I’m going to take a moment��to be silent.
Then I’m headed over here:��The Ferguson Public Library donation fund��|��The Ferguson Defense Fund | ��The St. Stephen’s Food Bank
November 24, 2014
A manifeasto from Nene Ormes, new Cooking the Books Correspondent
This summer, Malmo, Sweden-based author and foodie Nene Ormes and I were talking about food (as one does) and fiction (ditto). I mentioned to her my desire to widen the table at Cooking the Books. Her response was brilliant and delicious, as you might expect. I’m so pleased to share with��you the news that Nene will be joining Cooking the Books, bringing tasty literary treats from Scandanavia now and then.
we are very excited.
Without further ado, I would like to introduce the wonderful Nene Or...
November 23, 2014
Notes from a (Philcon) panel: What to Read… New to You
*some* people might have felt a little punchy after a long day at the con.
On Saturday, Hildy SIlverman��(twitter), Todd Dashoff, Deborah Stanish��(twitter), and Anne K. Gray (twitter) joined me to talk about short stories, books, comics and other things we felt the audience should know about in Philcon’s first-ever “Things You Should Read but Don’t Know About Yet” panel.
I set up four speed challenges and asked the panelists to list up to five titles or authors they felt everyone might not kno...
November 17, 2014
Next Weekend: Philcon 2014
Philcon’sjust around the corner! Manyopportunities to come say hi on Friday &Saturday, including Saturday’s 5pm reading with Lawrence Schoen. Here are the deets, so far. (as always, subject to winds of change)
Fri 8:00 PM-JAMES BOND IN THE YEAR 3000. (Plaza VI)
[Panelists: Kimberly Ann Kindya (mod), Tim W. Burke, Craig Jamison,
Fran Wilde]Exploring the fusion of science fiction and the spy novel. How have
SF writers depicted the future of espionage?
Fri 9:00 PM-ARGUING ENDER’S GAME (Plaza VI)
[Pane...
November 4, 2014
Magic Wants to Be Fed: Cooking the Books with Robin Hobb
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This summer, I metRobin Hobb at Loncon3.We were bothon a great food politics panel and she is as lovely and charming in person as you can imagine. When I asked her later if she’d join Cooking the Books for an interview, I knew my chances were slim, given that she’s hard at work on the new book – but she said yes. Everyone wins!
Robin is the bestselling author of short stories, books, and fantasy series including the Farseer trilogy, The Liveship Tr...
October 29, 2014
On Reading In Public
NYRSF reading, 2013. Photo by Sam J. Miller
Imagine yourself in a room filled with chairs, all pointed right at you. There’s a table with a sweating pitcher of water and an empty plastic cup, a box of leftover cookie crumbs, and, if you’re lucky, a table-tent with your name on it.
Welcome to your reading – one of many, you hope. What are you going to do now?
Actually, the first time I read my work aloud was nothing like this. Then, I clutched a handful of my poemsin a crowded basement bar in Bal...
October 22, 2014
It’s Hard to Fish from an Airship: Cooking the Books with Rajan Khanna
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A year ago, Rajan Khanna and I read together at aNew York Review of Science Fiction reading, curatedby Amy Goldshlager.
Rajan read from Falling Sky, and the passage I heard was amazing.Earlier this month, Rajanjoined Cooking the Books for a podcast answering all sorts of questions about post-apocalyptic cuisine.
To hear Rajan yourself, hurry to the World Fantasy Convention in Washington DC, where he’ll be reading on Thursday, November 6...
October 14, 2014
How to Cook a Shimmer: Cooking the Books with E. Catherine Tobler
This month, Cooking the Books is delighted to welcome guest cook E. Catherine Tobler.ASturgeon Award finalist and a cupcake connoisseur, Tobler has Senior Editor at Shimmer Magazine. Elise asked if we would like to know how a Shimmer is made, and we, of course, said yes. (previous Cooking the Books collaborations with SF/F magazines include A. C. Wise presenting How To Brew a Bugzine.)
Shimmer Badgers hard at work.
It is a well known fact that Shimmer cannot be found in the wild and does not gr...
October 2, 2014
See you at Capclave!
Capclave – 10-12 October, 2014
My Capclave schedule – give me a shout if you’re going!
Friday 5:00 pm: If I Ran the Studio (Salon A)
Panelists: Jim Freund (M), Max Gladstone, Jon Skovron, Genevieve Valentine, Fran Wilde
What books and stories would you adapt to film? Live action or animated? Why do film studios insist on optioning novels when short form fiction is really the ideal length for being adapted to film?
Friday 7:30 pm: Reading (TBD) –Fran Wilde
Saturday 2:00 pm: Smart Women Foolish Telev...
September 30, 2014
A Cooking the Books Appetizer – E. Catherine Tobler’s Watermark
Occasionally theCooking the Booksstaff (that is, for the moment, me, myself, and I) discovers an tidbitfrom something you might like.Such is the case with the following appetizer – a food related excerpt from one of October’s Cooking the Books guest hosts, E. Catherine Tobler.
Coming Sept. 22, 2014 from Masque Books
E. Catherine Tobler is the senior editor of Shimmer Magazine and author of works including Rings of Anubis (Masque Books, 2014), and an ever growing ring of stories that collects be...
