Reading & photos

[ellen_kushner]

Delia & I are reading tonight at NYRSF  at 7pm  (details here).  Continuing last year's tradition of presenting not-yet-published work, this time I'll be giving a sneak preview of "The Duke of Riverside,"* a new story set shortly after my novel Swordspoint. It will be published this summer in NAKED CITY: TALES OF URBAN FANTASY, edited by Ellen

Comments

[anonymous]

I don't know about book pages, but if you mean a typed letter-size page, the standard estimate is 250 words per double-spaced page, so presumably 500 single-spaced.

-- a lurking fan

[ellen_kushner]

Oops, yes - I knew that - meant to ask: How many minutes per (250-word) page?

Will correct above. But thanks!

[sararyan]

Adore Slings and Arrows. About time to rewatch it myself.

[elswhere1]

It is the best! And the 3rd season is like a seminar in Structure. Only more fun, and with lizard queens.

[sartorias]

A new Riverside story? Wow!

"The Duke of Riverside"

[ellen_kushner]

Yes; I'm trying to fill in some of the gaps! This one is about how Alec becomes Duke Tremontaine. It's told from the POV of a nameless nogoodnik who hangs out at Rosalie's - though I throw in a few scenes just between R&A, because you wouldn't like it if I didn't. It was a hellish story to write, as it has to read to an audience who may never have heard of *Swordspoint* - took me hideous *months* to get right (and I'm still not sure!) - the first draft contained what was essentially a 3-page summary of Swordspoint, and was utterly dire.

I am currently working on another one for Yanni Kuznia at Subterranean Press, for their *Fantasy Medley 2* series. It's a bit different - kind of a meta-story, about a girl writing a paper about them. But I think you'll like it.

Re: "The Duke of Riverside"

[sartorias]

*dancing around the room gibbering in anticipation*

[ellen_kushner]

Interesting - I actually read *slower* in front of a live audience.

I guess I just like to milk it . . . ;)

[csecooney]

Which Georgette Heyer?

My favorite will always always be "These Old Shades."

But I have a tendre for Fredericka (all those brothers; I have deep sympathy), The Grand Sophy, The Devil's Cub, and - of course - The Masqueraders.

I've never seen Slings and Arrows -- or heard of it.

I wish you swift recovery and a shot of the finest adrenalin that ever a gland produced!

[csecooney]

And... DUKE OF RIVERSIDE???!!!

AAAAUUUGGGGGHHHHYIPPEEEEEEEE!!!!

I mean... Ahem.

Hurray.

!!!!!!!!

[ellen_kushner]

"These Old Shades" - well, of course! It was the first one I read, after years of resisting because my college friends made light of their passion for Heyer, so I thought they were just girly romances instead of - as the great Cynthia Heimel once called them - "Bertie Wooster for girls." But the Georgians are The It for me, way over the Regencies. Except for Devil's Cub, of course.

YOU must rush out & get all 3 seasons of "Slings & Arrows." You will love them so much you won't believe it. (The 1st 2 hours are merely Good. In the 3rd hour you realize you will never be unhappy again, and it continues all the way through. Then you can start over and watch them all again, and you will catch all the little things you missed the first time.) If I had to save one work of television and one only for the rest of all eternity while all the others burned like Alexandria, this is the one I"d pick.