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March 27, 2014
ICFA Roundup
Last week, I attended my first International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA), but from the moment I arrived – on the same plane as my fabulous roommate Siobhan Carroll – I was made to feel so welcome and at home that I’m positive this will not be my last ICFA.
John Kessel, me, and Jim Kelly. Photo credit: Bill Clemente
The panels and readings were fantastic, with both guests of honor Nnedi Okorafor and Ian Macdondald giving generously of their time and knowledge, and guest schol...
March 18, 2014
On Staying Ahead of Technology & ICFA
Where is March going, you guys? It’s a total blur.
I’m still in editorial mode, but tomorrow I am off to ICFA – the International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts. I’m ridiculously excited about all three guests of honor, writers Nnedi Okorafor and Ian McDonald being regular occupiers of my bookshelf, and guest-scholarIstvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. as well. (Yes, I’m also happy it will be warm and not snowing.)
My schedule:Thursday, March 20, 8:30 am in Vista A,Author Reading withBrett Cox...
March 13, 2014
Many Things At Once: Cooking the Books with Russell Galen
photo by: Douglas Levy
Russell Galen figured out by the age of 14 that helping authors was his career path. By the late 1970s, he’d secured an apprenticeship with one of the great literary agents of the era. In 1993, he joined two other literary agents to found what is now Scovil, Galen, Gosh Literary. With passions that include science and nature writing, science fiction and fantasy, Russ represents writers including Cory Doctorow, Diana Gabaldon, Terry Goodkind, Steven Gould (his Cooking the...
March 7, 2014
Here Be Deadlines
This is a flyby post because I’m on deadline (What happens when you go to a writers’ retreat and give a talk about why you love deadlines? You get bigger deadlines.)… which means really good things for 2015, but for right now … aieeeee.
So have some picspam and links to nibble on -
Sheila Williams, the venerable editor of Asimov’s, and her daughters answered 10 Questions for GeekMom. How cool is that? She talks about growing up in science fiction and fantasy, the ins and outs of the editorial p...
February 21, 2014
“Like a Wasp to the Tongue” in Asimov’s April/May Issue
Hooray! The April/May double issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction is on its way!
My story, “Like a Wasp to the Tongue,” joins tales by my delightfulPhilly neighbor Michael Swanwick, the wonderful James Patrick Kelly, M. Bernardo, William Preston, Robert Reed (I loved his story “Katabasis” in Fantasy & Science Fiction last year), Matthew Johnson, K.J. Zimring, and Joe M. McDermott in the latest issue.
Rumor is the e-book version is already out. WHEE.
I’ve loved this magazine since I was a kid. It’s...
February 13, 2014
The Sandwich Manifesto: Cooking the Books with David Edison
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When I first met David Edison, he was silver.
That is, David was dressed for a masquerade, wearing glittering things from head to toe (including mirrored pants). He was beautiful. And then we began to speak, and, dear reader, I realized that the beauty wasn’t a costume. David is one of those people who glitters, even without mirrored pants.
His first book, The Waking Engine, is strikingly beautiful too. And Cooking the Books is lucky enough to have David as a...
February 4, 2014
My Boskone Schedule
Boskone is coming up fast (February 14-16), and I’m looking forward to seeing everyone! Check out the full program here.
Here’s where you’ll be able to find me:
Future Fashion(Panel), Fri7- 7:50pm What will the well-dressed futurian be wearing 50 years from now? A hundred years? A thousand? What is clothing actually for? What SF works have presented interesting ideas about the clothing of the future? How has fashion infiltrated comics or brought comics styles out into the real world?Panelists:...
January 31, 2014
Food of the Future at Tor.com
For a little over a month, I’ve been working on a bit of a secret project – a roundtable about food and the future – with amazing authorsAliette de Bodard, Ann Leckie, Elizabeth Bear, Benjanun Sriduangkaew, and Rochita Loenen-Ruiz. We created a virtual roundtable to talk about Food of the Future after a roaring discussion on Twitter last December. The resulting discussion was filled with give-and-take, and everyone posed excellent questions. We topped it off with a speed-round: Describe the F...
January 29, 2014
Women Destroy Science Fiction & On Being Left Wanting More
This week, I had great fun interviewing Christie Yant, guest editor for Lightspeed’s Women Destroy Science Fiction double-issue (coming in June 2014) about girl cooties, Joanna Russ, and the amazing Kickstarter campaign that truly is Wrecking Everything. Head on over to GeekMom.com to see the whole thing, and to get a sneak peek at the first two Women Destroying Science Fiction authors!
Meantime, Novelocity asked “Which Authors Have Left You Wanting More?” And guest author Martha Wells provide...
January 21, 2014
Cook All the Things: Cooking the Books with Editor Miriam Weinberg
This month, we have a very special Cooking the Books guest: Miriam Weinberg, AssistantEditor at Tor. Also, my editor at Tor. GLEE.
*Actual Photo* of Me & Miriam hard at work.
Miriam is an amazing cook and baker, prone to the occasional well-layered pun, and when it comes to animated gifs, she contains multitudes. She’s also a mighty fine finder-of-restaurants, which makes her an excellent person to kick off the 2014 season of Cooking the Books! We asked her all sorts of questions, from editing/...
