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Dec. 28th, 2016 08:49 pm
Some Blatant Self-Promotion
1. An e-book of my collection of short stories, Travellers in Magic, will be available for $1.99 on December 29 here. (I think you have to wait for the day itself to click through.) I still think most of these stories are pretty good — some of them were nominated for the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards, and one, “Cassandra’s Photographs,” was nominated for a Hugo. “Cassandra’s Photographs” is also one of the few stories I wrote that Doug didn’t like much — and, considering its eventual nomination, I keep hoping he won’t like more of my stories. No such luck so far, though.
2. My story “The Catastrophe of Cities” is out this month in Asimov’s Science Fiction. It was inspired by a misreading of the phrase “the lost cities of the plains,” as “the lost cities of Paris,” which immediately gave me the idea of a lost city scattered and hidden within another city. Dyslexia can be useful! Dyslexics untie!
3. I feel as if I should have three points here. Okay, here’s an observation, something I just realized — sometimes writing the second chapter of a novel can be harder than writing the first.
2. My story “The Catastrophe of Cities” is out this month in Asimov’s Science Fiction. It was inspired by a misreading of the phrase “the lost cities of the plains,” as “the lost cities of Paris,” which immediately gave me the idea of a lost city scattered and hidden within another city. Dyslexia can be useful! Dyslexics untie!
3. I feel as if I should have three points here. Okay, here’s an observation, something I just realized — sometimes writing the second chapter of a novel can be harder than writing the first.