Kate Elliott is coming to town tomorow for a reading/signing/author event at Borderlands (3pm!), to support her new book Black Wolves, which I would be looking forward to reading anyway, but
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I'm making good on my personal threat to attend lots of cons in 2016: I've now registered for FogCon (as always), WisCon (which I've been meaning to attend for a few years now and the stars finally aligned), and WesterCon (SE's suggestion; Scalzi is the guest of honor, and it's in Portland, which is a city I've always meant to spend more time in). ( Read more... )

Thanks to various recs over the last couple of years, I've been meaning to pick up some Courtney Milan. I've always enjoyed a good romance novel, and although I haven't read as many of them in recent years, good authors and recs remain on my radar. A few weeks ago, the online bookstores put the entire series -- four novels and three novellas -- on ( Read more... )

Something that I've meant to do every single year but never gotten around to is researching and writing up all the book, story, blog, and other recommendations I get at FogCon. In the spirit of diversifying my reading, and getting things done, I'd like to fix this. So I'll start with the most recent year and then hopefully work backwards ( Read more... )

Many of you may have seen the blog post by K. T. Bradford from a couple of weeks ago challenging us to change our reading habits for a year -- specifically, to take a break from books and short fiction written by cis straight white men. At the time, I was mired in my backlog of Hugo contenders, so all I could do was make a note of it. But now that ( Read more... )

Doing this one out of order because I probably ought to write it while it's still 2014. ;)
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Yesterday, Jed posted a link to a really awesome essay by sci-fic/fantasy author Kate Elliott, "The Status Quo Does Not Need World Building" (also mirrored on Tor.com). It's fantastic, and you should all go read it. Elliott provides a lot of food for thought, but here's a key quote:

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The 2014 Hugo Awards were given today, and I have to say that I'm very pleased, overall, with the outcome.
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So if you recall, back when I first joined WorldCon, I had all these grand plans about how I was going to talk about my Hugo reading, through both the nomination and voting process, and how those basically came to nothing. The voting deadline was yesterday, and my votes are in, so consider this a post-mortem of sorts.

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