New Links For Old
Way behind on linking to the cool stuff that has come my way over the last week or two.
For a start, we have a new podcast! The Galactic Suburbia crew have launched a sister podcast, Galactic Chat, which will feature author interviews. You can head over there straight away to hear me interviewing powerhouse Australian SF writer Marianne de Pierres about her new gothy YA novel Burn Bright (as advertised on the Dolly Magazine website! Yes really!). I've known Marianne a long time now, and she was a great first interview subject.
A future episode we've already recorded has Alisa interviewing me (it's not ego, honestly, she just wanted to practice on someone who wouldn't be mean to her!) and we're planning to get lots recorded at Swancon.
Speaking of interviewing me, Rowena Cory Daniells did so as part of her 'yes, women in fantasy, we have them, they are right here, THEY OUTNUMBER YOU, DUDES' series of blog posts. It's a great, in depth interview and as good a way as any for me to launch my 'ooh it's time to start promoting my work again what with those books about to hit the shops' season.
In reading the internet news, I recently enjoyed reading John Richards' account of how he quite legitimately visited the now former Channel Nine centre in order to unscrew video machines and take stuff away, it being the end of an era.
Kelley Eskridge is interviewed about her recently rereleased classic SF novel Solitaire, putting that book straight to the top of my To Buy list. What a fascinating writer! I have been reading her partner Nicola Griffith's blog for a while, but knew little about Kelley. Apparently, she's awesome.
I also found this post on the changing face of the publishing industry by Kristine Kathryn Rusch really interesting. Not sure I agree with all of it, but it's certainly worth the time to read it through as you drink your morning cup of coffee. I do think she has a very good point in her description of how powerless writers have been in the old publishing-distribution model. And I say this as someone waiting with bated breath for the royalty statement due this month which should give me a vague idea how my book sold between July and December last year…
