Month: July 2008
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On wanting to do better
A little while back I wrote an entry in this journal about not feeling very good about how things were proceeding in my third book, and about a kind of depression it’s induced for me over the past couple of months. I feel like I’ve spent much of this summer banging my head against my…
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Who wants to read about that?
Colleen Mondor is one of my favorite bloggers on YA literature, as well as a variety of other sorts of topics. Here she is talking about the need for more YA literature (and I add to this the need for any sort of literature) to consider this incredibly ignored and swept-under-the-rug (at least here in…
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A word about voices
What kind of writer are you? What do you write? Questions that authors are often asked, these. What do I say when someone asks me? It depends, really, on however I’m feeling that day, I think. Sometimes I say I write fantasies set in the visible world, or sometimes I’ll say that I write about…
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Locus Interview
The good folks at Locus Magazine are offering a deal for the latest issue, which features an interview with yours truly talking about everything from my first novel to my second novel, from Youngstown to Japan. Order the issue with the full interview in Locus postage free (a savings of $3.00) or completely free with…
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Atama Yama
Due to extreme curiosity inspired by my Japanese translator’s comments in the previous post, I sought out this amazing Japanese animated short film on YouTube, and thought it was absolutely beautiful. So of course I have to share it here.
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Meanwhile, back in Japan
But before I go, my Japanese mom sent pictures of the new issue of Hayakawa SF in Japan, which features stories by Barth Anderson, Ekaterina Sedia, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Holly Phillips, Alan Deniro, and myself. Here are pics of the magazine, and also the illustrations for Alan’s story, Tetrarchs (originally published in Strange Horizons), and my…
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Out of here
I was contacted recently to come up and teach at the Imagination Writing Conference at Cleveland State University again, this time as a replacement instructor, as the one they’d intended didn’t work out, so I’ll be away for the next week. Running around like crazy trying to do all the errands I thought I’d pace…