Douglas Cohen shows me the shiny. :)

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Alastair Reynolds interview up at From Bar to Bar.  For those keeping up, my part in the conspiracy is mentioned in passing.

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Received my preliminary Worldcon programming.  I'm on five panels, including two that I suggested.  It's going to be a blast!  I'll post that information once it's official.

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The readers of Realms of Fantasy have chosen "The Fortuitous Meeting of Gerard van Oost" for the 2010 Readers' Choice Award!


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I don't have the contracts yet, but both of these have been announced by the publishers, so...

1) I sold first Brazilian Portuguese rights to "The Parlous Battle of Gerard and Oludara against the Capelobo" (hereafter to be known in this blog as "Parlous Battle") to Devir!  This is the same company that published "Fortuitous Meeting" as a pocket book ( Read more... )

I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while, but time has been a tease...

So today I finally got around to it.  Below I have reproduced my acknowledgements from the book: Duplo Fantasia Heroica, published in Brazil last year.  The reason I didn’t get them up sooner is that I wrote them in Portuguese, so I had to take the time to ( Read more... )

The "little story that could" continues to chug along.  It is now up on episode 180 of Tony C. Smith's StarShipSofa podcast.  The story is narrated by Jonathan Danz, his first for StarShipSofa.  Many thanks to Tony and Jonathan, and an extra special thanks to Larry Santoro for helping make this happen!

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The little novelette that could is having quite a week.  Today it appeared on the Tangent Online 2010 Recommended Reading List.

Woo-hoo!

Lots of other familiar names there, like Jason Sanford (x2), aliettedb (x2), rcloenen_ruiz , matthewsrotundo , jaylake , camillealexa , cristalia , Euan Harvey, Steven Gould, stillnotbored , Carl Frederick, Brad R. Torgersen, nancyfulda , beth_bernobich , davidlevine , doctorow , rachel_swirsky , j_cheney , and others I'm sure I'm missing.

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So I just returned from my 20-hour trip back to Brazil, exhausted, and I'm fighting (and losing) against a huge pile of e-mail which arrived during that period.

But I suppose one announcement can't wait: my Nebula-Finalist Novelette (still can't believe I can say that!) "The Fortutious Meeting of Gerard van Oost and Olduara" has been posted in its ( Read more... )

Found out a few days ago, and I still can't believe it:
http://www.sfwa.org/2011/02/2010-nebula-nominees/

I never, NEVER expected this. Not this.

Many, many heartfelt thanks to everyone who nominated me.  And all the thanks I wrote here way back when still apply.

Huge congrats to kijjohnson , vylar_kaftan , jenwrites , aliettedb , ericjamesstone , carolineyoachim ,j_cheney ,rachel_swirsky , mkhobson , and maryrobinette for making the final ballot.  I hope to see ( Read more... )

I had my first ever book signing this week, which included appearances on TV and radio.


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Finally, I can tell the good news I hinted about a while back.  My story, "The Fortuitous Meeting of Gerard van Oost and Oludara" is going to be published in Brazil by Devir Livraria!  Here's the cover:


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