I love books that have as a central conflict the disjunction of law and justice. Unsurprisingly, you'll find that as a theme in many of my novels, along with the question "who gets to count as people?" and that's certainly true of my contributions to the Pride Storybundle. Of course, both Point of Hopes and Death By Silver are fantasies structured ( Read more... )

There is a lot of queer SF/F set in what is at least nominally the Victorian/Edwardian period (three very different novels in the current LGBT Storybundle alone), and of course that raises the question of what makes this period so appealing. For me, at least, the period from the mid-19th century through the start of the First World War is ( Read more... )

Yep, it's an LGBT+ Storybundle - 5 books in the basic bundle, yours for $5, or if you throw in another $10, you'll get 7 more titles, for an eclectic grouping of some of the best queer writing out there today.

When Steve Berman of Lethe Press asked me to co-edit Lethe’s year’s best lesbian SF/F anthology, Heiresses of Russ, for 2014, I was (of ( Read more... )

This post is terribly overdue, thanks to a bout of con crud that had a colleague sticking her head into my office as I hacked and coughed to say with great sympathy, “Hairball?” But enough cool things happened that it seemed that ‘better late than never’ definitely applied ( Read more... )

It’s time to reveal the Secret Project I’ve been working on for the last year or so!

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When I lived in New Hampshire, there was a restaurant up the coast in Ogunquit called the Hurricane. It was open only in the summer, on the waterfront, in the little harbor area, with a section that might once have been a deck jutting out over the tide line, but had long ago been enclosed. The food was marvelous - local, simple, impeccably prepared ( Read more... )

The Historical Fantasy Storybundle is coming to an end! Our last day will be August 10, so if you’re on the fence about this one - maybe you already have my books, and don’t know if you’d like the others - let me offer some comparisons.

If you like the way I wrote Elizabethan England in The Armor of Light, you’ll like Judith Tarr’s Lord of the Two ( Read more... )

The Historical Fantasy Storybundle has entered its last week, so I thought I’d take the chance to share a couple of comments from two of our authors.  When I put the bundle together, I asked people what had motivated them to write these novels - why historical fantasy, what they loved about the stories, what got them started, and I’m delighted to ( Read more... )

If you’re looking for background on the books in the Historical Fantasy Storybundle, our authors have been posting! Here’s a quick round-up of what they’ve said so far…

Jo Graham on the real woman behind The Emperor’s Agent.

Heather Rose Jones on queerness and history, in our bundle and out.

Me on the origins of the air race in Steel BluesGeonn ( Read more... )

The Armor of Light is part of the current HIstorical Fantasy Storybundle, so I thought I'd talk a bit about the history involved, and particularly the history of the magic. Years ago, Delia Sherman gave Lisa and me what is still my favorite blurb ever, for The Armor of Light. I’ve quoted it in full in the Storybundle page, but the relevant portions ( Read more... )