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...
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...
It's Book Hype Week.
We will return you to your irregularly scheduled intermittent newsletters shortly.
B minus 7 days. Also, a virtual Salon.
Hey friends, Just a brief note to remind you that Machine will be out in the US in ebook on October 6 and in hardcover on October 20 (Covid printing issues...
September Book Club
Howdy, fellow pandemic endurers! It's time for the second edition of the Throw Another Bear In The Canoe book club, where we all talk about what we're...
The perfidy of major appliances
It’s becoming increasingly obvious, dear readers, that this is a farce as well as a tragedy that we’re living through. A farce probably written and...
A very cheap audiobook of Ancestral Night!
Does what it says on the box.
Some Russian and a short delay...
Hey, folks, and welcome to the newsletter I’ve been procrastinating on all week! Email is a thing that I tend to put off and put off some more, especially...
You better get it 'cause it's going soon!
Today, for one day only AFAIK, Ancestral Night is a Kindle Daily Deal in the US! (I think it’s USA only; sorry overseas folks; different publishers here and...
Announcing the Throw Another Bear In The Canoe Book Club
Hey, folks! First of all, an acknowledgement: I'm totally borrowing this idea from my friend Stephanie Burgis, author of The Dragon With The Chocolate Heart...
A journal of a journal of a plague year
Hey, friends, So in the past few months, like many other people, I’ve read both Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year and John M. Barry’s The Great...
Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy Table of Contents.
Does what it says on the box. Click on this hot hot cover image to pre-order!
Nostalgia is easy like Monday morning...
Hey, folks, A friend (Hi, Celia) was pointing out yesterday that since a lot of people are still holding on to the idea that the Covid-19 pandemic will be a...
Therapy is work, but it's worth it.
Hey, friends, A couple of folks have dropped me emails and comments recently thanking me for being open (now and in the past) about my diagnosis of bipolar...
There's a joke I love about there being only two kinds of people in the world...
…those that subscribe to false binaries, and all the other kinds. We writers, in general, love to sort ourselves into camps—plotters versus pantsers being...
thank you
Hey, you stuck around. There are some pretty wild allegations flying around right now about my husband and me, and I wanted to address them and say,...