Food is love in a time of coronavirus, part two.
Hi, friends. First things first, apparently my novel Dust (Jacob’s Ladder #1, first book in a series that takes place several hundred years before Ancestral...
Food is love
Hey, folks. This is not going to be the suddenly-obligatory How To Work From Home opinion piece, because I’ve never personally found working from home...
Before apocalypse, chop wood, carry water...
During apocalypse, cover art still shows up. As a brief distraction from building a fortress out of ramen noodles, I offer the UK cover art for MACHINE,...
It never rains but it pours manuscripts.
Hey, folks! Everything is going on here and not much of it is “news,” I’m afraid. Spring is arriving ahead of schedule and the cats are thrilled by the...
What a long strange month it's been.
Hey, folks. I have no excuse for not having written in so long, I’m afraid, other than being overwhelmed and exhausted. Mid-life brain chemistry changes are...
The Best of Elizabeth Bear is out today!
Out today! Don’t delay!
No Sleep Til Brookline
Hello, friends! A brief note to let you know what’s going on! First, a public appearance: I’ll be at the Brookline Booksmith in Brookline MA on Friday at 7...
Memoirs of a Space Traveler
MIT Press asked me to write a foreword for this new edition of Memoirs of a Space Traveler, by Stanislaw Lem, and I was very pleased indeed to do...
Received wisdom and shibboleths.
This post is brought to you by the fact that, this morning (which will be, oh, about a week ago by the time this newsletter goes out), I crouched down to...
The Best of UNCANNY is out now!
Does what it says on the tin and you can read all about it right here.
If I'm not shitposting on twitter all day, do I actually exist?
Hello, friends! Today I want to talk about one something I struggle with as a freelance writer, as a person who works alone on the sofa with a cat or two for...
Fuck multitasking
Hello, friends! It’s natural, as the year winds down, to find one’s self taking stock and contemplating changes in habit for the new year. Of course the...
Persistence and vision.
Staying in the game until you spot your opportunity.
Lyrical writing requires self-discipline
Hello folks, and thank each of you for being one of the select few who are subscribing to and sustaining this newsletter. So when I was breaking in to...
Relevance without trendfucking
a manifesto
UK (and Europe?) Deal of the Day!
Hey, folks. Well, I’ve been traveling, and having more fun while traveling than intended, as I have a terrible head cold and also we got to spend an extra...
Hypervigilance is bullshit.
Oi. Maybe it’s the holiday season, and maybe it’s who-knows-what, but I am writing just to complain about PTSD and the fact that apparently my brain is in...
Self-care rather than self-discipline
Hello friends, and happy holiday season. I’m coming to you from a very cozy little Airbnb above a cactus shop (!) in Minneapolis, and if I weren’t taking a...
New York Public Library 2019 Best Books list!
Not to bury the lede: it includes Ancestral Night. This is a career first for me, and I’m thrilled. In other White Space news, I’ve got confirmation from Joe...
Obligatory eligibility post thing, also some reviews
Hey, folks! It’s time for that obligatory end of year post where I tell you what I published this year, in the hopes that if you read it and like it you...