There's no such thing as a free lunch, and other bullshit lies we tell each other.
Trust me, I'm 9/10ths of an anthropologist
A poignant anniversary
It’s one of my personal holidays today. Long-time readers of my old livejournal and even occasionally Twitter willl have heard me speak of this before, but...
Virtuosity
How does a best-seller happen, anyway? This post is brought to you by several overlapping sets of ripples in the Discourse, obviously, but it’s not a...
OCCUPY GONDOR: A Virtual Panel with Katherine Addison, Scott Lynch, C.L. Polk, Arkady Martine, Max Gladstone, and me!
Join me and five of the smartest, funniest people I know on September 30th at 9 pm Eastern/6 pm Pacific to talk about all the different ways speculative...
The unbearable everywhereness of hustle culture
I’m writing this to you from the sunny (for now) patio of a rental cottage as far from civilization as it’s possible to get, and still be in Ireland. My...
Obligatory Tom Waits Reference Here!
Somehow it seems like Sunstack never sent this out? Sorry, folks, it was meant to go out Sunday the 4th, and I didn’t notice because I was at Worldcon! I...
A view from a high place
We're in Dublin briefly before heading off on a writing retreat in an undisclosed location (It’s Kerry) for a few days, where we plan to do nearly nothing...
Sort of an everything update
Hey, folks, It’s been kind of a zoo around here lately, and the only reason I’m finding the time to actually update this newsletter is because I hurt my...
I seem to have a WorldCon Schedule.
How weird is that? ?
Signed book sale!
Signed copies of my work (and anything in the store that's not already on sale!) are available through V. J. Books at a 50% discount for the month of August...
June and July Book Club! And horse update!
Whew, I have not done as much reading as I wanted to do, either on our travels or since I got home. I’m starting to get a little unstuck from fiction, at...
Author points
One of the most useful analogies I’ve come up with over the course of my career is something that arose out of an epiphany I had approximately 20 years ago,...
Booksigning at Odyssey Books Thursday July 21!
7 pm! South Hadley! Does what it says on the tin! Sign up here! https://www.odysseybks.com/event/elizabeth-bear-person
Fashion changes the way we see.
I am an 80s kid through and through. I mean, I was born in the 70s, but all of my awareness that there is a larger world out there basically starts with the...
The reader doesn't owe me anything.
I’ve been seeing opinions in the social medias lately from certain writers that I find a little puzzling and entitled. To wit, the idea that readers owe the...
Make room, make room
As some of you have doubtless noticed, I spent Pride month building a rec list of books containing LGBTQA rep on twitter. I’ve been using a specific set of...
My Favorite Bit and I will be at Pandemonium tomorrow!
Hey folks! Here’s the essay I wrote for Mary Robinette Kowal’s MY FAVORITE BIT feature on friendship and The Origin of Storms. Also, I will be doing my first...
The system is broken because it was built that way.
First off: Book Club will return next month, because I am traveling! Second, a little rant about civics: If it seems like it’s really hard to get anything...
THE ORIGIN OF STORMS! It's new book day! Here's a link!
Hey, folks! THE ORIGIN OF STORMS is out today. I’m sure by now everybody knows how vital first week sales are to a book’s prospects, so if you think you want...
T-1
THE ORIGIN OF STORMS comes out tomorrow! snarky talking pen big fight on a volcano walking cities wizards sciencing the shit out of things giant gentle metal...