Thanks so much to everyone who contributed culinary delights to the Riverside Series Recipes-and-Menus Contest! You must now click through and see them all, for they are a wonder to behold.

They ranged from the witty to the more-ish, the stunningly artistic to the heart-meltingly "I can't believe you read my books and know them so well....!" Last ( Read more... )

To celebrate the advent of a new Riverside Audiobook - narrated by your humble co-author - we like to throw a little contest, to give you a chance to win a FREE download of our latest from Neil Gaiman Presents: The Fall of the Kings, by Ellen Kushner & Delia Sherman.

Last time, it was Book Covers - this time, it’s CUISINE!

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To my amis français & Francophone friends: My short story "'A Wild and a Wicked Youth'" is being translated by the inestimable Patrick Marcel for wonderful André-François Ruaud's  periodical book/magazine, *Fiction.* The title is a quote from a traditional English ballad (as sung by Waterson:Carthy) - a "Criminal's Last Good Night" genre piece ( Read more... )

I'm supporting this Kickstarter  with offers of signed copies of Swordspoint and The Privilege of the Sword  - along with free copies of their audiobook downloads (so you can read along?).

Of course, what you really want is Dion Graham (sexy St Vier in the Swordspoint audiobook) doing your answer machine message ( Read more... )

Now, where were we?

Right, yes:  Last week we recorded all the male actors' scenes for the bits of THE FALL OF THE KINGS audiobook (for Neil Gaiman Presents) that we're illuminating - and today, I returned to the Brooklyn Basement Studio to pick up where I left off my narration recording before the holidays.

We have just hit Theron's Nervous ( Read more... )

And it was morning and it was evening, the first day.

Got to the studio on W. 55th (around the corner from Random House!) at 9 am stoplaughing to begin recording the male actors for our THE FALL OF THE KINGS audiobook, the third in my Riverside series for Neil Gaiman Presents Hung out in the Green Room as everyone got in.  Sue's fabulous assistant ( Read more... )

This 9/16/12 NYTimes in-depth piece on "Wall Street provocateur" Sandy Lewis, "born into Wall Street royalty," makes me wonder whether a modern version of my angry, privileged, righteous man might not be something like him.  While my novels are published as fantasy, I like to anchor them in the real world as much as I can.  Food for thought:

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This is Ellen’s assistant Katharine, back to announce the winner of our TPOTS Create Your Own Cover Contest, while Ellen nurses a head cold and gloats over all the art.

I’m glad to see that my rallying cry of “Lace! Leather! Silk and steel!” inspired so many of you to design your own covers for The Privilege of the Sword (aka TPOTS, which Ellen ( Read more... )

So I come into Delia's study to find her dressing up this Tudor chick.

The conversation, had you been overhead to overhear, was something like this:

--Oh! Oh! Oh!  I want hanging sleeves!

-- No, they look like this, see? (click)  The problem is, I know how it actually should be [historically].

-- Oh. Right.

-- And you can change scenes, see?

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Why be coy?

Yes, I am going into the studio in about 2 weeks to start recording the THE FALL OF THE KINGS audiobook (Riverside AudioBook 3 - and do please pick up the first two there, while you're stopping here).

Delia's always a tremendous advisor in all my audio work - after 20 years (!!) of seeing me through radio, theater and audio, she's got an ( Read more... )