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... )

When I left Boston and moved to NYC, I really grieved to leave behind my beloved folk-music public radio station, WUMB.

Fortunately, grief turned to joy when I realized I could listen to them online (and on my kitchen Logitech web-radio)!  Indeed, they have something like 5 online channels that each plays a particular style, including Traditional, ( Read more... )

Traders' Heaven is officially open, and it's taking all my self-control not to spend every penny I've got on Bordertown Lives! T-shirts, Dancing Ferret bar glasses, Elsewhere Books postcards & coffeemugs, Hard Luck Cafe jerseys, Taco Hell tank tops, Khandromas (Midori Snyder's Tibetan girl skater gang) charm bracelets, and, y'know, stuff that ( Read more... )

She took the Dishes Fairies with her . . . but, Look!  She left us this Cool Auction Item:

Originally posted by deliasherman at Con or Bust!
Item Name & Description: A 6 cup hand-knitted tea cosy in a kind of cherry-red/pink/cream heather mixture.  You'll like it.  You'll see.
Starting Bid: $25
Notes: I'll deliver it as soon after the end of the auction as is ( Read more... )

I will be putting up much more stuff of mine to auction, very soon, I promise. Swordspoint stuff, Bordertown stuff . . . stuff you want.  (Any special requests?)

Meanwhile, do not miss delightful things like Caroline Stevermer's offer to handwrite a personal letter from Kate of Sorcery and Cecelia . . . Patricia McKillip's hand-written draft of ( Read more... )

Our very dear Charles Vess has made up 'A Bit of English Magic:’ A Susanna Clarke/Charles Vess Literary Basket for a charity auction to benefit his local library.  The auction runs through Saturday, April 9 at 4:00 PM EST.   Details are up on Facebook here.  If you don't have access to FB, here's the fine print:

( Charles Vess writes: )

Yesterday's NYTimes ran an article on the swift and dramatic rise in e-book sales of children's and YA titles - pretty clearly tied to the surge of e-readers given as holiday gifts to kids. And apparently, some kids don't really differentiate between different kinds of Screen Time, and find themselves reading instead of watching TV.

All of which ( Read more... )

In my previous post I said that the new anthology, Welcome to Bordertown, was going to cost $22.99.  I also put that on the postcards we gave out at Arisia.

That is a mistake (unless you're a library: it's the cost of Library Binding).  The price to the public will be $19.99.  For a 544-page hardcover, it's a steal!  And what remains even more of ( Read more... )

Chanukah's early this year - first candles will be lit on December 1 - so no point in waiting til after Thanksgiving to let you know that my readaloud/chapter book, The Golden Dreydl, gorgeously illustrated by Ilene Winn-Lederer - is now available in paperback!

I happen to think the original hardcover, with its - deckled paper edges and gold-stamped ( Read more... )

Because I am a lazy vaux-rien, I will not write here the love letter that Kathe Koja's new novel, Under the Poppy, deserves.  Instead I pass you over to the capable (and infinitely productive) hands of  my beloved colleague, Cory Doctorow, with whose review on BoingBoing I entirely agree.  Especially the Tom Waits part.

Delia & I both read this a ( Read more... )