I'm Making a Little List
Over the past couple of days I've been working on a list of fantasy novels with non-European settings, by women writers. This is because I feel like a lot of readers want more, but posts on it often focus on only a few books, usually well-known recent bestsellers, by men.
Marie Brennan has a long list here, but I thought I'd see just how many fantasies with non-European settings I could remember/find specifically by women. I've read a bunch of the books on the list so far (and written a few of them) and I wanted them listed where people can find them, and not have them erased from memory.
So far it has 85 women fantasy writers on it, and that's just the books we could find in a couple of days. (Which tells you that a list of all fantasy by women, including European-derived settings, urban and contemporary fantasy, etc, would be huge. Huger than huge.) I've asked a few people to look at it and I'm waiting to see if there are any last minute additions, then it's going to be posted for people to suggest more additions. Eventually I want to try to annotate it, though at the size it is now, that might have to wait until I can hire a librarian to help.
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Monday I sent my agent the final revision of The Siren Depths. It'll probably have at least one more revision after the editor sees it, but for right now it's done. When I finished the first version of it earlier this year, I had a couple of weeks of depression. I've heard other writers talk about experiencing that after finishing a book, but this is the first time that had happened to me.
If you missed it, I posted the cover art for The Siren Depths last week.
This week has so far been the week of minor but compelling and expensive annoyances. The switch on the vacuum cleaner broke; the vacuum cleaner still works, but you have to hold the switch down to vacuum. If I had three arms, it would be no problem. The outside water tap for the hose is broken; it still works, but you have to turn it off and on with a screwdriver and that method is starting to fail. We're going to need a plumber to replace it. The truck (which was bought new by my father-in-law in 1991) is letting us know in various ways that it is very old now and would like to go to truck heaven.
Marie Brennan has a long list here, but I thought I'd see just how many fantasies with non-European settings I could remember/find specifically by women. I've read a bunch of the books on the list so far (and written a few of them) and I wanted them listed where people can find them, and not have them erased from memory.
So far it has 85 women fantasy writers on it, and that's just the books we could find in a couple of days. (Which tells you that a list of all fantasy by women, including European-derived settings, urban and contemporary fantasy, etc, would be huge. Huger than huge.) I've asked a few people to look at it and I'm waiting to see if there are any last minute additions, then it's going to be posted for people to suggest more additions. Eventually I want to try to annotate it, though at the size it is now, that might have to wait until I can hire a librarian to help.
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Monday I sent my agent the final revision of The Siren Depths. It'll probably have at least one more revision after the editor sees it, but for right now it's done. When I finished the first version of it earlier this year, I had a couple of weeks of depression. I've heard other writers talk about experiencing that after finishing a book, but this is the first time that had happened to me.
If you missed it, I posted the cover art for The Siren Depths last week.
This week has so far been the week of minor but compelling and expensive annoyances. The switch on the vacuum cleaner broke; the vacuum cleaner still works, but you have to hold the switch down to vacuum. If I had three arms, it would be no problem. The outside water tap for the hose is broken; it still works, but you have to turn it off and on with a screwdriver and that method is starting to fail. We're going to need a plumber to replace it. The truck (which was bought new by my father-in-law in 1991) is letting us know in various ways that it is very old now and would like to go to truck heaven.
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