My friend Marie Brennan has left behind the Faerie courts and has gone off in a new but (being who she is) a wholly fascinating direction. Her new novel is "A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent". I just finished reading the book, and I liked it immensely - this is an author who has a clear and present understanding of the importance ( Read more... )

Friend and colleague Sue Bolich has a few words to say today, about her writing, her worlds, and her award-nominated fantasies. If you have people in your life who love a good fantasy novel, you can find and purchase the books through links at the tail end of her post - and need I remind you, Christmas is coming ( Read more... )

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you for your reading pleasure... a guest post (and a new edition of a good book)

Please welcome Joshua Palmatier, also known as Benjamin Tate, the author of "Well of Sorrows" - about which, well, let me let him tell you about...

First of all, thanks to Alma for giving me the chance to guest blog today. I hope you find me ( Read more... )

He dropped into this blog space to talk to me about the new book and his writing processes. Here's him at it:

1) On the face of it, substituting the fantasy-themed names of lands ( Read more... )

For those of you who haven't heard of her yet (and good God, where in cyberspace have you been hiding if you haven't... and do the words 'Hugo award' mean anything to you...) here's Bear (matociquala in these circles) in her own words:

Elizabeth Bear was born on the same day as Frodo and Bilbo Baggins ( Read more... )

- the new StorytellersUnplugged essay went live yesterday. There were glitches with comments - but as far as I know they have now been enabled, so if you feel so inclined you can add your own here or here. Another essay suggested by folks here at LJ coming up at the end of December - or possibly at the end of January if I choose to use December ( Read more... )

- if you've ever wondered what it must be like to LIVE with a writer, here's my Other Half on the matter. rdeck and I will be celebrating our tenth wedding anniversary next summer - so SOMETHING is going right ( Read more... )

I crossed paths with Neesha Meminger only recently, in the comments section of the blog of an entirely third party, on a subject on which we both had things to say - the subject of the treatment of girls and women in our fiction, and on the presence (or lack thereof) of heroines who are of a much broader cultural and racial spectrum than the ( Read more... )

My friend and extraordinary storyteller Marie Brennan is releasing the second in her Onyx Court series of books, "In Ashes Lie", right about... NOW. So you can go out and pick it up for your summer reading. I chatted to her about things just after she came back from a research trip to London (she does SERIOUS research into history for these books ( Read more... )

A bit more linkery - I did a guest blog for Apex and it's up this week - here's a taste:

You will know my tribe - sometimes it will take a touch of a moon-sharp shadow to reveal us, but you will know us by what we carry, by the burden we bear, by the darkness that lingers in our eye - because we are of the shadow, because we are the tellers of ( Read more... )