I'll be revisioning all day today, so here's some links:M...

I'll be revisioning all day today, so here's some links:


Murderati: Non-white heroes: the kiss of death in the marketplace? by Tess Gerritsen
Memory #1: I am ten years old, sitting in the back seat of a parked car with my best school chum as we wait for her mother to come out of the grocery store. My friend is white. We are chattering, giggling, making noisy girl noises. A woman walks back to her car, which is parked beside ours. Maybe it's the fact we're laughing so loudly. Maybe she thinks we're laughing at her. She glares at us.

What she sees: a white girl and an Asian girl sitting in the parked car.

What she says is: "Damn noisy chink."


Linda Nagata: What's in a Name? I haven't done a lot of interviews in my career, but the question I least like to answer goes something like this: Do you feel it's hurt your career being a woman writing hard science fiction?


I got a mention (Yay!) on this list of "What To Read When You're Not Reading Pratchett." on Patrick Rothfuss' blog


And I'm on Google+, if people are into that. It's interesting, but I think I still have more fun on Twitter. (There, I'm @marthawells1)


Book I'm reading:

Oscar Wilde and the Vampire Murders by Gyles Brandreth

I've been reading this series for a while and would have missed this one, because I didn't know it had been released. If Murder by the Book wasn't the kind of store where you can go in and have this conversation:

Me: "I wonder if there's a new one in a series...British...sort of historical..." :makes vague hand gestures:

Murder by the Book: "Oh, you mean the Oscar Wilde series by Gyles Brandreth! Yes, there was a new one a few months ago."

I would never have found it on my own.

I actually think I saw this book in a store at one point, and didn't realize it was from the Brandreth series because the cover (instead of matching the previous books) makes it look like one of those mash-ups, of which I am not a fan. But I managed to find it anyway, and am really liking it so far. Instead of being from Robert Sherard's viewpoint (or Oscar telling the story to Robert) it's written more in the style of Dracula, with Robert's narration interspersed with diary entries or letters from Arthur Conan Doyle (who is involved with Oscar in solving the mystery), Bram Stoker, and the other characters. This is great, because one of the flaws of the series is that while Oscar is awesome and a charming narrator, Robert is vaguely creepy. Anyway, I recommend the series and this is a great installment.