Tamora Pierce's Blog, page 15

Don't be reading this if you're eating anything

It quite literally made me sick to my stomach.

Apparently stolen brides in Chechnya aren't happy, so they're taken to be exorcised at a mosque where the imam also claims cures for mental illnesses. The cause of these brides' unhappiness, apparently, isn't being kidnapped or sold or given into marriages they didn't want, but entities like djinni (genies, Arabic spirits) that have fallen in love with them. So the imam beats the brides with a small stick and shouts verses of the Koran at them.

I...

TORTALL AND OTHER LANDS: a Collection of Tales

Barnes & Noble online slates it for February, 2011. It includes some non-Tortall stories: "Plain Magic," which is my first published fantasy short story; "Testing," a contemporary short story based somewhat on my experiences as a house mother in a group home; "Time of Proving," a medieval fantasy short story written for Cricket Magazine from a map created by David Wyatt; "Huntress," a contemporary fantasy story written for FIREBIRDS RISING, edited by Sharyn November, and "Mimic," an original...

disrespect

Folks, I've been reading the posts since yesterday, and something is being repeatedly called to my attention: lack of respect for Ms. Moskowitz. I may not agree with someone, but I don't think I've been bashing her personally, only disagreeing with what she said in addition to saying what I wanted to say about my own work. (The part where I comment on her main argument is when I mention Sturgeon's Law and Ellison's Corollary: my meaning is that there is bad writing everywhere, writing which...

Why I write girl heroes for the most part

cross-posted to my fan journal

A friend's link on Facebook took me to another link which took me to this: author Hannah Moskowitz's discussion of the need for boy characters for teens and her feeling that publishers and writers are fixated on girl books and girl characters. For the most part she is discussing contemporary books, though she did ask where science fiction is--one of her commenters pointed out the recent rise in science fiction publications.

I tried to post my answer several times...

Lynda Van Devanter

You may think I'm silly, getting all worked up over a death that happened eight years ago, but until I went searching on Google to remind myself of the title of Lynda Van Devanter's shattering book on her time in Vietnam, I had not known that she had died in 2002. She was only 55 years old, and it was Agent Orange that killed her.

HOME BEFORE MORNING was one of the many books I read in the 1980s to make sense of the American war in Vietnam. I knew that women were there as nurses and as other...

Sirens! October 7 - 10, 2010

What, you haven't signed up for Sirens?! You have to come! Holly Black is one of the guests of honor this year, and you all know how you love Holly, the wicked imp temptress! (She's got two new books out, THE POISON EATERS--a short story collection that I gave a quote for, and WHITE CAT, which is on my to-read stack!) Marie Brennan, the next guest of honor, is the dark novelist, short story writer, and scholar--very cool! And the third GoH is the one and only Terri Windling, novelist, ed...

She's Right 2

Having read other postings on Womanist Musings, I wanted to make it clear I don't agree with Renee on everything. She says a lot of thought-provoking, uncomfortable stuff, and I'm still thinking over her comments about womanism-v-feminism--my She's Right post of June 10, 2010--but I did want to say I am not always in agreement with her and her fellow bloggers.

Since I'm white, she doesn't care what I think, with cause. That's just. But I wanted you to know.

If you get an e-mail from me, especially from AOL

and it contains only a link to a site or anything else, delete it. I've gotten a number of these things recently, and they are phishes. Since people now seem to be getting them from my AOL address, and since we are super-secure at home, I suspect that AOL in general has been hacked.

Remember--don't open that link; delete the mail!

Sorry for the fuss, but I had no control over this one. I HATE hackers and phishers!

OATH OF FEALTY by Elizabeth Moon

SHE'S WRITING FANTASY AGAIN!!!!!!

It's set very soon after the end of OATH OF GOLD, the third of The Deed of Paksennarion trilogy. She says you don't have to read the first three books (or the ominbus) to understand what takes place, and she does make things very clear, but if you want to read the Paks books, I'm not going to be the one to stop you!

This book revolves primarily around Duke Phelan, about-to-be/technically King Kieri of Lyonya, Captain-now-Lord Arcolin, Prince-soon-to-be-King Mi...

For those who complain about my irascible nature, like my Spouse-Creature

I do it for my health.

It says so right here.