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  • The Poison Eaters & Other Stories

    Holly Black

    In her debut collection, New York Times best-selling author Holly Black “assures her place as a modern fantasy master.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

  • A Working Writer’s Daily Planner 2010

    December 2009:

    Organize your writing schedule, track deadlines, and learn about grants, contests, and workshop programs. Deadlines are built right in, along with spotlights on writing markets and helpful online resources.

  • Interfictions 2

    Delia Sherman & Christopher Barzak, Editors

    November 2009:

    21 original and innovative writers including Jeffrey Ford, Brian Francis Slattery, Nin Andrews, and M. Rickert, and more. Introduction by Henry Jenkins.

  • Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 24

    Gwenda Bond, Abby Denson, Alexander Lamb, J. W. M. Morgan & More.


Chuntering On and On

Making a book cover @ Orbit Wed 10 Mar 2010

Don’t know who sent me here but it’s great (although so tempting to slow down!):

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Thursday: freebies, signed books, etc. Tue 9 Mar 2010

This morning the Boston Globe includes our awesome event this Thursday at 6 at the Brookline Booksmith in their Three to See mini feature.
What’s not mentioned: there will be free stuff! Franciscan will provide the candy, there will be a tiny leetle bit of chocolate, and we will have Working Writer’s Daily Planners for all [...]

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SF Hall of Fame Tue 9 Mar 2010

I was honored to be one of the jury—along with George R.R. Martin, Frank Wu, Leslie Howle, Robin Wayne Bailey, Robert Silverberg, Brooks Peck, and Therese Littleton—for the Science Fiction Museum Hall of Fame inductees this winter. Just saw that Locus (post ganked wholesale below) says the Museum has now announced the inductees and you [...]

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  • Second Line

    Poppy Z. Brite

    October 2009:

    Two short novels of love and cooking in New Orleans, starring lovable chefs Ricky and G-man, written by the incomparable Poppy Z. Brite. “Fun foodie fiction, and readers will scarf it down.”—Publishers Weekly

  • Hound

    Vincent McCaffrey

    When a book dealer’s ex-lover is murdered, he is forced to examine his past and investigate the murky depths of literary Boston. Hound is the first of a series of novels featuring Henry Sullivan, and the debut novel of a long-time Boston bookseller, Vincent McCaffrey.

  • Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter’s Tales

    Greer Gilman

    “Sublimely lyrical Jacobeanesque dialect . . . readers who enjoy
    symbolism and allusion will cherish Gilman’s use of diverse folkloric elements to create an unforgettable realm and ideology.” —Publishers Weekly

  • Couch

    Benjamin Parzybok

    Three guys move a couch, save the world.
    An exuberant and hilarious debut in which an episode of furniture moving gone awry becomes an impromptu quest of self-discovery.

  • The Serial Garden

    Joan Aiken

    This is the first complete collection of Joan Aiken’s beloved Armitage stories — and it includes four new, unpublished stories.
    The Serial Garden is also the first title in our new imprint for readers of all ages: Big Mouth House.

  • The King’s Last Song

    Geoff Ryman

    “An unforgettably vivid portrait of Cambodian culture past and present.” —Booklist (starred review)

  • The Ant King and Other Stories

    Benjamin Rosenbaum

    A dazzling, postmodern debut collection of pulp and surreal fictions.
    Download for Free

  • The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories

    John Kessel

    Book Sense Pick
    Dustjackets: 1 · 2
    Interviews: 1 · 2
    Podcasts
    Download for Free

  • Generation Loss

    Elizabeth Hand

    Shirley Jackson Award Winner
    Start reading | Listen.
    YouTube interview
    Believer Award Short List

  • The Best of Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet

    Kelly Link & Gavin Grant, Editors

    So good there had to be a book. Or something.
    “An otherworldly Farmer’s Almanac.”—Library Journal

  • Water Logic

    Laurie J. Marks

    A triumph of politics, fantasy, world-building, and intelligent design: of character, world, and magic.

    Listen to Ch.1

  • Endless Things

    John Crowley

    An Ægypt Novel
    “Confirms that he is one of our finest living writers, period.” —Michael Dirda

  • Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing

    Delia Sherman & Theodora Goss, Editors

    Atlanta Journal-Constitution

    Tiptree Honor List

  • The Privilege of the Sword

    Ellen Kushner

    “Unholy fun . . . dazzlingly executed.”
    –Gregory Maguire, Wicked

  • Howard Who?

    Howard Waldrop

    “Back in print after so many years, Howard Who? remains a terrific collection of short stories. There is nobody else alive writing stories as magnificently strange, deliriously inventive, and utterly wonderful as Howard Waldrop.”
    Metrobeat

  • Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead

    Alan DeNiro

    LBC Read This! Pick
    A Book Sense Pick
    Crawford Award Finalist
    “Smart and affecting.”
    – Locus Notable Books


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