This week, erzebet and the good folks at Cabinet des Fées recently posted the September 1 issue, and apparently I am a featured author of sorts -- Tanya B. Avakian reviewed three of my books, in truly fascinating ethnic contexts that, to be honest, no other reviewer has ever done, because they simply don't know enough about Armenia, or for that matter ( Read more... )

Earlier this year, the excellent charlesatan interviewed me for my second Nebula Nomination for The Duke in His Castle in the novella category.

It has now been posted on the SFWA Nebula Awards Website.

Here's an excerpt:
"Would you believe (to quote Maxwell Smart) that this work originally started out as a short story? I think all ideas start out as pre- ( Read more... )

Just a reminder that the opportunity to get a FREE download of my complete Nebula Award-Nominated novella The Duke in His Castle (PDF format) will end today, Monday, at 12:00 AM midnight, PST.

Get your free copy asap, before I take the file down from the server. And do remember, it's copyrighted material, so please, for your personal use only.

And now, for the secret link!

Basically for this weekend ONLY...

Here's a limited-time FREE download of my complete novella The Duke in His Castle in PDF format...

Free for everyone! Enjoy! And spread the word! :-)

The first-ever completely online world science fiction convention Flycon 2009 is happening right now!

Lots of amazing events, and even free goodies, such as a limited-time free download of my complete novella The Duke in His Castle... but you have to go click and explore the convention to find it! *grin*

I swear, this LJ is like an emotional rollercoaster or yo-yo. There's no middle ground. Up and down it goes, crazy bad news, followed by crazy good news, then again, et cetera ad infinitum.... And here's the good news!

Ok, I've been informed it's okay to announce this in public, so...

I'm a Nebula Finalist again!

My novella The Duke in His ( Read more... )

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Thanks to david_de_beer for posting a reminder about the Nebula Report: Preliminary Qualifiers Dec 08. Basically these are the works that have qualified for the Preliminary Ballot.

As you can see, the novella category is pretty empty. I just want to remind folks that my novella The Duke In His Castle is eligible, and needs only 5 more recs to make this ballot ( Read more... )

It is three past midnight. The Mad Queens Tower stands on the northernmost end of the castle grounds, as thick and squat a cylinder as any, one of the many rounded turrets that protrude in ancient tumescence from the baseline of the castle foundation ( Read more... )

In another reaffirmation that the Brits seem to really like my writing, here's a great review by David Hebblethwaite of my quirky novella in the online magazine The Zone. (David did a shorter review on his blog previously ( Read more... )