Martha Wells's Blog, page 216

Went to a great potluck dinner last night. We had homema...

Went to a great potluck dinner last night. We had homemade tamales, homemade Biryani, homemade bread, and I'm having my leftover spoonbread for lunch.

It's supposed to be not-freezing tomorrow; that would be nice.

Icepocalypse

Some photos of the sugar kettle fountain on our back patio, under ice:












Note the fountain is still running.

It stayed below freezing all yesterday and all night, and...

It stayed below freezing all yesterday and all night, and I'm afraid to look at what's left of my backyard. At least our pipes didn't burst like a lot of other people's did. It's supposed to get up to 40 today, which sounds very warm at the moment.

I made a big pot of butternut squash soup again last night, and marycrawford 's suggestion about baking it for a little first to make it easier to cut up worked great. We're going to a potluck dinner tonight and I'm still deciding what to make. M...

The Winter 2009 issues of Icarus: The Magazine of Gay Spe...

The Winter 2009 issues of Icarus: The Magazine of Gay Speculative Fiction is now available, with a story by Tanith Lee.


There's a guest post on Writer Beware about the difference between a book distributor and a book wholesaler: Guest Blog Post: Distributor vs. Wholesaler--Getting Your Book on the Shelf. This is something a lot of new writers don't think about, and you don't see it mentioned in articles extolling the glories of self-publishing. (The articles that don't explain that while the ...

Good news: Kirkus Reviews Lives to Write Another Day I ...

Good news: Kirkus Reviews Lives to Write Another Day I was always really happy with the reviews I got from Kirkus, so I'm glad to see this.


Bookstore link: Mysterious Galaxy

Latin American and North American writers take note: Best...

Latin American and North American writers take note: Best American Fantasy 4 Now Reading: Guest Editor, Award-Winner Minister Faust
The Best American Fantasy series (Underland Press) founded by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer is now reading fantasy short stories up to 10,000 words published or to be published from May 1, 2009 through May 31, 2010 for volume 4.

Stories must be by Latin American or North American residents and published in Latin American or North American publications (or magazine...

AggieCon 41

I'm going to be Special Guest at AggieCon 41 this year, February 5-7, in College Station, Texas, at the College Station Hilton Hotel. It's earlier in the year, and also off-campus, because of the construction at the Memorial Student Center has closed down a lot of the programming space.

This is a special convention for me, because when I was a student at Texas A&M University, I was a member of Cepheid Variable, the student committee that put on the convention, and I was chairman of AggieCon 1...

Links to cool stuff:On Patrick Rothfuss' blog: an Intervi...

Links to cool stuff:

On Patrick Rothfuss' blog: an Interview with F/SF author Nnedi Okorafor (her two earlier young adult books were under the name Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu).

Locus has a partial interview with the awesome Nina Kiriki Hoffman, with a mention of her upcoming middle-grade book Thresholds.

Black Gate has an announcement about the fourth all new Imaro novel by Charles Saunders: Imaro: the Naama War! Saunders is an underappreciated master of fantasy, mining a setting and, indeed, a...

Apparently there's a new tactic for spammers with Live Jo...

Apparently there's a new tactic for spammers with Live Journal accounts: post insulting comments in an attempt to get traffic for the spam journal. Because when someone posts a bizarre off-the-wall accusation in one of your posts, you might go to their journal to see what the hell they're talking about, and see they've got one post advertising a weight-loss drug site. Gosh, LJ is just getting more fun every day; I almost can't stand all the fun.

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An article at Black Gate: Howard's...

Quickie link because I know some of you may be interested...

Quickie link because I know some of you may be interested after the post about workshops and classes when you're a genre writer:

Planetalyx has openings in her UCLA online courses: Creating Universes, Building Worlds & Writing the Short Story. This is A.M Dellamonica, author of the fantasy novel Indigo Springs.