Lilac Syrup (and) short fiction print publication news.
Hey, folks, I made a duck for my Mom’s birthday, so the cats got braised duck innards for lunch, and they think this is a very fine thing and should possibly...
Machine Paperbacks (and) Horse Stories 4
Hey folks, Just wanted to let you know that the UK paperback of Machine will be out on Thursday, May 27th. I just got my author copies this week and it looks...
Horse Stories 3
Hey folks, So yesterday, I rode Ormr, which was actually the first time I've ridden him since LAST Thursday, though I was over at the barn Saturday, Sunday,...
Adventures with cats
Molly: I am on the armoire! Pet me, pet me, pet me! Me: **Pets, dutifully.** Molly: **Purrs and wiggles and purrs until she accidentally steps off into thin...
un/conscious in/competence
What if you don't even know what you need to learn in order to improve?
Horse Stories 2
I'm writing this on April 29; I'm going to send it out Monday May 3, but when I say "today" and "yesterday," I mean Thursday and Wednesday, respectively....
What to expect when you're coping with the unexpected
Congratulations, everybody. We’ve gotten to a point where we can maybe see the first tickle of the end of the crisis. Or maybe, to be more precise, the...
Horse Stories 1
So my friend Sarah Monette, who is also Katherine Addison, posts dressage stuff and horse stories over on her Patreon, and I figured, you know what, Ormr and...
Gatekeepers.
Hey folks, I’ve been thinking a lot about the idea of “gatekeepers” and traditional publishing in the sense of agents and editors and publishers, and the...
Does what it says on the tin!
Hey, on Tuesday I'm giving a free talk at ARU's Creative Showcase on how to survive the creative life with your emotional health mostly intact!...
April Book Club Post
Hey folks, Spring is busting out all over the place, and I spent about twenty-five woman-hours mulching the yard in the past two weeks. I'm drowning in...
I'll be at Virtual Eastercon this weekend!
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Cheap books!
Hey folks! ANCESTRAL NIGHT is an April Kindle Deal in the US, and the US ebook edition is available from fine retailers for $1.99 UK ebook edition still 99p...
March Book Club Post
I’m getting an inordinate amount of joy this week from watching it snow on a volcano in Iceland. You can see tiny people sometimes, and a number of...
A post office box in Schenectady.
As some of you know, paying subscribers get the privilege of asking me questions. Recently, I got one that was not the dreaded, “Where do you get your...
On the kerfuffles of capitalism
So, a bunch of my colleagues are pondering whether to remain on Substack, given the fact that they have started paying what amount to advances against...
On Copyrights
So there’s a been a lot of bad hot takes lately about copyright and the public domain, and in the spirit of education and fun, I wanted to share this Planet...
Bread
so muchdependsupon a red standmixerdusted with breadflourbeside a stove with onedead burner (This pandemic is just a forest of dead major appliances for...
The beginning of the end.
CW: pandemic stuff So the Biden administration thinks they can vaccinate everybody who wants one by the end of May, and Christopher Wray is being allowed to...
Institutionalized?
So I got my first dose of Covid-19 vaccine on Friday, through CVS, which has a much more manageable website than the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. I became...
February book club post
So, do you pronounce the R in February? (I do.) It’s snowing again in southern New England, and I am trying to catch up on my reading after a slow couple of...
I finished the book.
You might have seen on twitter or instagram, but here’s the news: the very overdue THE ORIGIN OF STORMS is finished and sent to my editor. Now I get a couple...
So, Texas, huh?
I can’t offer a hot take on this mess. The scale of the devastation is too enormous, from human lives to permaculture plantations to (I can only hope) Ted...
Movie rights deal for "Dolly"
I guess I’m allowed to talk about this now. :D If you want to read the original short story, it's reprinted here. It's also available in the January 2011...
How Twitter is like wolf research, and other stories.
An author who has been a casual friend for years DMed me the other day because their first book is coming out soon, and they wanted to know how to deal with...
Self-care and stuff
Desire to yoga: so low. Desire to experience the effects of yoga: High. Sigh, here we go… I mentioned this briefly on twitter, but avoidance is my new...
January Book Club!
What is reading anyway? Since last we spoke, I feel like I’ve only finished like, two books. Actually, looking at Goodreads, I see that it’s more than that....
PTSD and current events.
Hey, folks, Well, I dunno about you, but at least for me everything going on in Our Nation’s Capitol (or Their Nation’s Capitol, if you happen to be from...
Answering your Writing Questions!
Hey, folks— Thanks again for another year of your support (or the first year of your support, as the case may be.) A monthly income means a lot to a writer...
Obligatory awards post
Hey, folks, Hope this finds you surviving the holiday season and the COVID-19 wave as well as can be expected. Stay safe and warm and socially distanced out...
December Book club!
Hey, friends. I was musing on twitter the other day that I kept feeling like I needed to interject more interpersonal drama into the buildup to the climax of...
It's snowing and Google is down!
Good morning, internets. I hope you’re not locked into (or out of) your house, that your lights are working, and that your school district hasn’t just...
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...