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Many Links Make a Post! (Hi, it’s been a while!)

Hello friends — I’m deep in writing and revisions and the start of a new semester. And we are deep in the fall of this everlasting year. If you’re like me, you are struggling to stay afloat, to hold hope close, while also acting decisively, and trying to generate new thoughts as well. It’s exhausting, and some things move slower than others, even so.

So I’ve been collecting links to a bunch of different things, and promising myself I’d post them, then shying from it because it’s been a long whil...

Cover Reveal: THE SHIP OF STOLEN WORDS, by Fran Wilde

I’m so excited to be able to share with you the cover for my next middle grade novel, coming in 2021 from Abrams Kids / Amulet!

Head over to MG Book Village, where the fantastic Jarrett Lerner interviewed me about the title, the art, and working with Flying Pigs!

Go check it out, and while you’re there (or while you’re here), you can also mark it as “want to read” on Goodreads! And hit up some of those shiny pre-order links and/or let your libraries know you can’t wait for The Ship of Stolen Wo...

Ten Links Make a Post – A mid-pandemic media update

Hi Friends its a tough thing to keep track of days and weeks, much less interviews and talks, in the midst of all **this**. My mind is more often on the well being of the world, my city, my family, students, friends, and everyone in the communities Im a part of.  Some exciting announcements have been happening, but theyve been tempered by global events, so I thought Id gather them here for the duration. I hope youre well and that those around you are also.  ~ Fran

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Teaching the Future – Synchronous and Asynchronous Online Learning

I know, the title’s a mouthful, and not the usual fare of my posts here.

But… as a lot of the world is turning to online education, I thought I’d share some resources and links, as well as my own slides from the excellent “Speculative Futures of Education” symposium my colleague Dr. Nalo Hopkinson organized last December at University of California, Riverside.

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This week, I attended (and presented at!) a fantastic symposium...

Machina, Episode 3 launches in 3 days! Our Fans Are Already Shouting About…

Machina, episode 3 – Go Big AND Go Home, by Curtis C. Chen launches on Wednesday — before it does, get caught up with (or get into) the first episodes and see what all the buzz is about! Click here, and for less than the cost of five espresso shots, you can have ten weeks of the Moonshot Bar, DevLok’s intrigue, and Watchover’s hive drones… not to mention the whimsical stylings of your personal embedded Code Overload reporter… (and yes, Pseudo too! It’s all about the robot rescue dog, we know,...

Wanna Race To Mars? Join MACHINA (& Giveaway!)

Next week, a project nearly two years in the making becomes real.

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We solemnly swear we are up to no good. #machina #pseudomakemeasandwich @curtiscchen @m_older @serialboxpub @mxpalmieri @dogpseudo

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When I started working on the story bible for MACHINA, a few things inspired the idea of two startups racing to build the machines that will help us live on...

2019 – What I’ve Read & Loved (Part 2)

How is it December?? I’ve been wanting to add this second post for *weeks*. The first half of the post, from November is here.

Part of how is that I’m teaching two courses and finished a book and sold a couple stories, so I’m going to give myself a break. Another part of *how* is :: gestures at state of the world.:: Lastly, another *how* is that people are still publishing all the way up through December and I wanted to try to read as much as I could.

And I did want to get the second part of...

2019 – What I’ve Written & Read (so far)

This has been a wild year, one that began right on the first of January with “A Catalog of Storms,” from Uncanny Magazine, through the publication of a novel and a novella within two months of one another, and continuing until the very last minute with stories for a few anthologies, and finishing a new novel.

Readingwise, it’s been equally thrilling — so many stories and thoughts out there this year that are incredibly deep and rich. I’m go...

This Week: New York and Virginia for His Hideous Heart, U Richmond and more!

Hello friends! This is going to be one of two posts this week… mainly because that whooshing sound you hear is me wondering where the heck August and half of September went.

First up! New York, on Tuesday, Sept. 10, I am coming to see you and bringing a raven or two.

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Tomorrow, His Hideous Heart, the starred and Junior Library Journal-selected anthology containing 13 modern retellings of Edgar Allen Poe’s short stories (and possibly a few bats) launches at Books of Wonder at 6pm!

I’ll be ther...

Reading Poe, Out Loud

Last week, I did something new & a little scary – I recorded a portion of the audiobook for the double-starred, junior-library-selected His Hideous Heart, edited by Dahlia Adler (and containing retellings of classic Poe stories alongside the originals) by Kendare Blake, Lamar Giles, Rin Chupeco, Tessa Gratton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Stephanie Kuehn, Emily Lloyd-Jones, amanda lovelace, Hillary Monahan, Marieke Nijkamp, Caleb Roering, and me.

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I’m not a stranger to audio recording – see Cooking th...