agencies and agtech
Gentle readers,
My big writing news is that I have acquired an agent! Lauren Bajek of Liza Dawson Associates represents science fiction and some nonfiction. I've been juggling math and writing careers for the last few years, and I'm hugely excited to be working with someone who can represent both halves of my professional identity.
I took a celebratory picture of North Continent Ribbon in a stack of other books by authors represented by the Liza Dawson agency. It's surprisingly coordinated--I guess sometimes literary taste and design instincts go together?
Meanwhile, Chaitna Deshmukh interviewed me for the University of Washington newspaper. I did my best to explain the way that writing and research math can feel the same:
Before you prove something rigorously, you’re trying to get an idea for a pattern, and so we can make these sort of big, intuitive leaps and then go back and try to justify it. And that's something that happens in fiction as well.
And I'll be at the virtual WisCon this coming weekend. Panels are all online--I'm looking forward to talking about writing and games, and to moderating a panel called "The Wild World of Modern Agtech," which I'm hoping will involve all sorts of technologies I'd never before considered.
I think Kosmas and Gennoveus will approve the convention-from-home plan.
Yours,
Ursula.