Still banging my head against Cloud Roads book three, and...
Still banging my head against Cloud Roads book three, and not doing much else this weekend.
Book rec: The Dread Hammer by Trey Shields (a penname for Linda Nagata) Ketty is a pretty shepherdess with a contrary nature, who runs away from home to escape an unwanted marriage. As she flees along the forest road, she prays to the Dread Hammer for help--and to her astonishment help comes in the form of a charming and well-armed young murderer named Smoke. As Ketty soon discovers, Smoke is not entirely human.
Links for the weekend:
Omnivoracious: Finnish SF and Fantasy: An Established Community, a Surge of Talent by Jeff VanderMeer
Book View Cafe: Writer's Survivor's Guilt by Laura Anne Gilman
Everyone wants the bestseller, book-a-year-for-life career, the one that means you will never have to work retail again. Most of us, if we're very lucky, will instead be scrambling for the rest of our careers, often writing three books a year to make a living, never knowing how long the run will last, or if readers (and publishers) will abandon us overnight. It's a hard, emotionally draining, financially irresponsible way to make a living.
And we're the lucky ones. We know that.
Iain M. Banks: Science Fiction is No Place for Dabblers
Science fiction can never be a closed shop where only those already steeped in its culture are allowed to practise, but, as with most subjects, if you're going to enter the dialogue it does help to know at least a little of what you're talking about, and it also helps, by implication, not to dismiss everything that's gone before as not worth bothering with because, well, it's just Skiffy and the poor benighted wretches have never been exposed to a talent the like of mine before . . .
Doris Egan: Open, Closed, and the Moment They Figure It Out Open and closed storylines, suspense and surprise, separately and in combination. (spoilers for the first two episode of this season of Doctor Who)
Book rec: The Dread Hammer by Trey Shields (a penname for Linda Nagata) Ketty is a pretty shepherdess with a contrary nature, who runs away from home to escape an unwanted marriage. As she flees along the forest road, she prays to the Dread Hammer for help--and to her astonishment help comes in the form of a charming and well-armed young murderer named Smoke. As Ketty soon discovers, Smoke is not entirely human.
Links for the weekend:
Omnivoracious: Finnish SF and Fantasy: An Established Community, a Surge of Talent by Jeff VanderMeer
Book View Cafe: Writer's Survivor's Guilt by Laura Anne Gilman
Everyone wants the bestseller, book-a-year-for-life career, the one that means you will never have to work retail again. Most of us, if we're very lucky, will instead be scrambling for the rest of our careers, often writing three books a year to make a living, never knowing how long the run will last, or if readers (and publishers) will abandon us overnight. It's a hard, emotionally draining, financially irresponsible way to make a living.
And we're the lucky ones. We know that.
Iain M. Banks: Science Fiction is No Place for Dabblers
Science fiction can never be a closed shop where only those already steeped in its culture are allowed to practise, but, as with most subjects, if you're going to enter the dialogue it does help to know at least a little of what you're talking about, and it also helps, by implication, not to dismiss everything that's gone before as not worth bothering with because, well, it's just Skiffy and the poor benighted wretches have never been exposed to a talent the like of mine before . . .
Doris Egan: Open, Closed, and the Moment They Figure It Out Open and closed storylines, suspense and surprise, separately and in combination. (spoilers for the first two episode of this season of Doctor Who)
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