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Monday, August 24th, 2009
Meant to post this ages ago, but it's been a crazy summer. Pump Six and Other Stories picked up a Locus Award for Best Collection, and its title story "Pump Six" won for best novelette. Here two are, flanking the book:
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Friday, July 10th, 2009
Here's the cover, grabbed fresh and hot from Night Shade Books' website:
Secret sources within the company hint that the book may even be available at Worldcon in Montreal less than a month from now.
Am I excited? Yes I am.
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Friday, July 3rd, 2009
I'm blown away by the cover art that's come in for The Windup Girl. Hats off to Night Shade Books, and Raphael Lacoste, the artist.
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Can't wait for the September release.
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Friday, March 20th, 2009
I've just been nominated for the Hugo Award for my novelette "The Gambler."
I want to thank everyone who voted for the story, and also Lou Anders over at Pyr Books who leaned on me to sit down and write the thing when I wasn't sure I had a ...
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Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
On Saturday, February 7th at 6:30pm, (that's just a week and a half away), I'll be doing a reading and book signing at DreamHaven Books in Minneapolis. I give pretty good read, so it should be a fun time.
Here's the location info on DreamHaven Books, taken from their ...
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Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
Mercury found in high fructose corn syrup. Which is found in basically every packaged product in the grocery store.
Just another example of what happens when you treat your food like an industrial supply chain.
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Monday, January 19th, 2009
Interesting bit from the Land of Smiles. The Thais revere their royalty, and back it up with serious punishments. It highlights an interesting conflict between local values and identity vs. liberal democratic values such as free speech.
The realistic perspective is to observe that when you enter a country, ...
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Monday, January 19th, 2009
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28695782/
Yet another window into the industrial manufacturing system we call "food."
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Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
...has sold to Nightshade Books. It happened while we were in India, and I am very pleased. As I mentioned in an earlier post, this story is set in the same world as "Yellow Card Man." More on this later, but I thought I should at least mention ...
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Monday, November 24th, 2008
Thanks to Lou Anders at PYR Books, my short story "The Gambler" which appeared in the original anthology Fast Forward 2 is now available online for free reading at PYR's website.
When I wrote "The Gambler," I had just finished a stint as online editor of a non-profit magazine, where ...
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