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Book Bites: Wendy Wagner’s Vegan Sandwiches Save the Day!

Book Bites is Cooking the Books‘ more easygoing cousin. Authors talk about their book and share a recipe, all in one tasty bite.

The glorious Wendy Wagner joins us on the heels of her new book from Angry Robot! (Spoilers: I really enjoyed this book.)

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Wendy writes: When my daughter went vegan, lunch turned treacherous. We’d been vegetarian for years, but I hadn’t realized how many dairy and egg ingredients w...

To Read: A Short Fiction Gatherum of People Who Are Not Me

I used to do a lot more of this! I don’t have as much time – but I still love to read short fiction and recommend it on twitter & in person, mostly and here sometimes. Meantime, keep an eye on blogs like Natalie Luhrs’ “IN SHORT” for great recs…

Here’s a gathering of mags and stories I’ve been reading lately.

[image error]The entire Sundown Towns issue of Fiyah Magazine. Look. Listen. Subscribe. (the previous issues too!)  &  The Gods and Monsters series at The Book Smugglers, including stories by Tonya L...

Hej! and Hei! : August means events in Uppsala, Stockholm, and Helsinki!

Beginning August 3, I’ll be in Scandinavia. My Swedish & Norwegian inlaws have given me a list of things to see, but you all know I’m completely fixated on the boats. Expect lots of photos of the Vasa & the harbors & more boats & more water, and from the events below too!

Here’s where to find me:

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Friday, August 4- Sunday, August 6, I’ll be in Uppsala Sweden for Reception Histories of the Future. My schedule:

Friday: 3-4pm Paper Session: Fran Wilde – “Medieval Dreams of Flight and Their Infl...

A Flock of Links & A Few Reminders

I’m getting ready to go down to the best first library in the country, the Free Library of Philadelphia, for a dance-off with Chuck Wendig and Kevin Hearne (I think that’s what we’re doing) tonight.

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Tomorrow and Sunday, it’s Readercon! Then Monday night, I’m at Pandemonium Books in Boston – come on out, Massachusetts!

Meantime, I brought you some fine things to read and some arts and crafts:

FIRST!

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Book Bites: Robyn Bennis

Book Bites is Cooking the Books‘ more easygoing cousin. Authors talk about their book and share a recipe, all in one tasty bite. 

Robyn Bennis’ first novel, The Guns Above, is filled with high-altitude derring-do, gambling, aristocratic hijinks, and more. She joins Book Bites with a delicious, weevil-free (we hope) recipe for hardtack! Welcome, Robyn!

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The Guns Above 
They say it’s not the fall that kills you.

For Josette Dupre, Garnia’s first female airship captain, it might just be a bulle...

My Philly Free Library & Readercon & Pandemonium Schedules!

Next week is going to be a lot of great bookfun!

Here are the details!  (With Luna assistance)

Friday, July 14 – Philadelphia Free Library – 7:30 pm – with Chuck Wendig & Kevin Hearne, hosted by Dena Helik

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(Cue mad dash to the airport)

Saturday, July 15 + Sunday, July 16 READERCON!! (Spoiler: I love this con)

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Saturday:

11 am room 5 – Engineering in SFF, the Sequel: A Bridge Too Far. Scott H. Andrews, John Chu, Jeff Hecht, Marissa Lingen, Fran Wilde (leader). At Readercon 27, our panel of S...

Book Bites: Four Meals, One Chicken with Alison Tam

Alison Tam’s new novelette “Beauty, Glory, Thrift” has just been published by our friends The Booksmugglers and to celebrate, she’s at Book Bites, with a recipe for Chicken You Can Eat Forever. Welcome, Alison!

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To showcase her talents, the goddess of Thrift in my novelette, “Beauty, Glory, Thrift” decides to cook a foreigner a feast. The point here is to spend as little money as possible to make as much food as she can, something anyone who...

Book Bites: More Innsmouth Collection Recipes from Ruthanna Emrys

Special Delivery! As an excellent addition to Ruthanna Emrys’ delicious Cooking the Books in May, our friends at Tor.com Publishing just sent over printable recipe cards for more Innsmouth recipes! Enjoy!

The Innsmouth Collection, buried deep in the Restricted Stacks of Miskatonic’s Crowther Library, is best known—by those who know of its existence at all—as a unique source of folkloric esoterica. The trove of obscure Aeonist mytho-history and demonology texts is certainly abundant. However...

A Bouquet of Links: UPDRAFT Sale! Invisible 3! PASTE Magazine!

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Big news! In time for summer, for gifting, for an extra copy for yourself: – Huge UPDRAFT sale! $2.99 ebook & the paperback’s almost 1/2 off too! (While you’re there, preorder HORIZON if you haven’t already — and save the receipt because preorder goodies announcement’s coming!) Then check out this list of Great Summer Reads from Maria Haskins!

[image error]A few weeks ago, Jim C. Hines posted my essay “Notes from the Meatcage” on his blog. The essay appears in the upcoming Invisible 3 anth...

Lines of Supply: Cooking the Books with Malka Older

[image error][image error]Our fabulous friend Malka Older found time between busy moments at BEA to talk with co-host Aliette de Bodard and me about her relief work in Japan after Fukushima, writing the data-driven, sf stunners Infomocracy and Null States (out soon from Tor.Com Publishing!) and telling us what foods go away first in an infomocracy universe. It’s all  for Cooking the Books this month, both here and at the extension kitchen over at The Booksmugglers! (check out Malka’s Booksmugglers Bonus answers!).

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