Spaceship Living Room
Hey, friends, When I was a kid, I had a favorite game whenever I got my hands on a big box. I used to pretend I was on a space ship, and that I couldn’t...
Event minus twenty minutes!
Come one, come all! https://www.crowdcast.io/e/elizabethbearattheodysseybookshop/register
On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa
It’s finally real.
Thursday November 19th at 7 pm EST
I will be appearing at a virtual event for Odyssey Bookshop with the one, the only Max Gladstone! That's it. That's the post. Preregister here!
So we live in a house...
as many people do. It's the first house I've ever owned, and after a peripatetic life where the longest I ever spent in a single residence was four years,...
There's probably not going to be a coup, but if there is, we can handle it.
Several friends have asked me, "Sir..." Wait, I'm being handed an envelope. It appears that I am not Donald Trump, and can relate an anecdote without puffing...
A virtual appearance and a new story next week!
Hey there, friends, it’s been a hell of a ride, hasn’t it? I’ve gotten so unused to good news that I feel a little dizzy, but in the past few days we’ve seen...
November book club post, a virtual appearance, and a meditation on how surreal it feels to get good news.
Hey there, friends, it’s been a hell of a ride, hasn’t it? I’ve gotten so unused to good news that I feel a little dizzy, but in the past few days we’ve seen...
The Long 2020 isn't over.
Congratulations, America. We did it. Our institutions held. Our military has not taken to the streets to support a would-be tin-pot dictator. We just managed...
On Deradicalization
The people who have been historically oppressed in the United States are not fragile; not convinced of our own superiority; not weak or overemotional. The...
I have some feelings about queerness being commodified, and they're complicated.
Feeling one: It is absolutely great that there are a lot of mainstream books with queer characters in them being queer and imperfect and having adventures....
The internet is full of things, and also I sold a couple of novels.
Hey, folks! Some more stuff to share with you today. I have reached the end of Act II in The Origin of Storms. Finally. I just have to write this one...
That David Bowie song about the apocalypse, but make it days.
You know, that one. Well, folks, it's the homestretch here in the US (we hope) and then if we are at all lucky and manage to beat the interference of foreign...
Cover reveal and interview
Hi, folks! First off, we have the cover for "On Safari in R'lyeh and Caroca with Gun and Camera," and a publication date! This will be out November 18th at...
Straw poll
Who’d be interested in some kind of community Discord chat thingy?
MACHINE US Hardcover Out 10/20!
Hey folks! I promise this is the last book launch for the rest of the year! Um, I think. There’s a novelette coming out at Tor.com though. Shhh. Anyway, does...
October Book Club
Greetings, subscribers! I admit it, I haven’t been reading as much as I’d like to. I’ve been trying very hard to get this damned overdue novel rolling up the...
Surprise! It's book day all over again!
I’m thrilled to share some news that it has been killing me to sit on, which is that there is now a second mystery novella featuring Sub-Inspector Ferron of...
The inevitable heat death of Book Week
Hey, folks! MACHINE came out in US/Canadian ebook yesterday and comes out in UK and Ireland ebook and paperback tomorrow, and it feels a little weird to be...
MACHINE launch day!
Hey, friends! It’s US ebook launch day for MACHINE (the first of three, because it’s 2020 and nothing can be simple) and I invite you to both read this...