Christopher Barzak

Month: April 2009

  • Just so you know…

    Just a brief note to say I’ll be signing books at Barnes and Noble in Fairlawn, Ohio tomorrow evening at 7, so if anyone from round the Akron area is out and about, stop by and say hey. Now back to your regularly scheduled blog silence. 😉

  • Honorably mentioned

    The James Tiptree Jr. Award was recently announced, and The Love We Share Without Knowing was included on the award’s Honor List.  What can I say?  I’m honored!  The Tiptree is a wonderful award.  Here are the two books that won this year (congratulations to both authors, as well as those on the honors list!),…

  • Return of the sun

    Very little to say except it is gorgeous outside.  Every day it seems things get a little brighter, a bit greener, and everything is beginning to smell like flowers.  It’s about time.  It wasn’t a terribly snowy winter here this year, but it was cold as usual.  I have a tendency to grow gloomy in…

  • Another satisfied reader

    A few weeks back I was inspired to have a book giveaway and today another review from that giveaway has appeared.  An excerpt: Is this a sad novel, given that a few of the stories focus on suicide and many on death?  In some ways, yes.  It’s even deeper than that, though, as it shows…

  • Back to the village with head held high

    A friend sent me this clip from YouTube this morning, saying it was the best thing she’d seen on the internet in a while.  I had to agree, it was pretty damned awesome.  

  • This weekend in the Yo

    Come to the Oakland for:

  • Thought for the day

    I love the internet, but sometimes I feel like too much of my life is carried out on it.  It’s a necessity, to some degree.  But honestly, I sometimes dream that my laptop has bloodstained fangs.

  • Writing a novel

    I am writing a novel.  I’ve written one other novel, and a novel-in-stories.  They both took me a decent amount of time to write, but for some reason in my memory I can’t remember how difficult it was to write them.  I think this must be something akin to what I’ve heard from some of…

  • Fail, fail again.

    UPDATED at bottom Apparently since February, Amazon.com has been de-ranking books that are gay-themed in some way, thus basically making them unsearchable as titles on the site, and taking them out of the view of potential readers.  I don’t have the “facts” on this, but it does seem to be true.  There are many titles…

  • Wabi-Sabi

    A friend wrote today to say, “I read your new book finally.  It’s very wabi-sabi.”  And more, of course.  But if she’d said nothing else but that it was very wabi-sabi, I would have been elated.  It’s the descriptor that I feel captures The Love We Share Without Knowing, and in a more American way,…