Sunday, August 30, 2015

The Air in Spring in Geneva



Audible have just released the audiobook of the Doings of Anton (aka my novella "Spring in Geneva," read by Jesse Einstein, who did the three first Everran books for Audible a couple of years ago.

He is a wonderful narrator - till I heard him read the first few pages of Everran's Bane I never thought I cd. write so well, heh. And he has done it again with "Geneva." Only heard the first scene, but he brings out the sly humour as well as the over-the-top early -19th Century sensibility that I was thinking of for Anton.

AND, nowadays Audible are doing a bit of promoting, too. I have or can get, nine, count 'em, nine free copies of the audio-book for friends, promotion etc.

Three have gone to friends/family - esp. people who had a part in writing "Geneva" - and two I am keeping in reserve, but the other four are up for grabs.
The link to the book on Audible is again, here.

So, if you read this blog, and want to check out the first few pages, there's where to click.
And if you want a free copy, add a comment on this post.


First come first served, as Anton would NOT have said.

Friday, August 14, 2015

After Long Silence....

And with apologies to Sheri S. Tepper, who used that as the alternate title for her brilliant SF novel The Enigma Score.

Finally have a moment to do a blog post with catch-ups for the, ahem, rest of 2015. (What, just from March to August? What's 5 months or so, after all? Well, a lot to the stat counting bots, apparently.)

Anyhow.

News 1: Next publication after Lilian and Jo in March, is/will be a letter to James Tiptree in the Letters to Tiptree antho from Twelfth Planet Press, due out this month, and now available for pre-order at the link just above.

The list of contributing writers is pretty cool, including

Kathryn Allan
Marleen Barr
Stephanie Burgis
Joyce Chng
Aliette de Bodard
L. Timmel Duchamp
A.J. Fitzwater
Lisa Goldstein
Theodora Goss
Nicola Griffith - read online at LA Review of Books
Valentin D Ivanov
Gwyneth Jones
Rose Lemberg
Sylvia Kelso
Alex Dally MacFarlane
Brit Mandelo - read online at Tor.com
Sandra McDonald
Seanan McGuire
Karen Miller
Judith Moffet
Cheryl Morgan
Pat Murphy
Sarah Pinsker
Cat Rambo
Tansy Rayner Roberts
Justina Robson
Nisi Shawl
Nike Sulway
Lucy Sussex
Rachel Swirsky
Bogi Takács
Lynne M. Thomas
Elisabeth Vonarburg
Jo Walton
Tess Williams

And there will be archived letters from Ursula K. Le Guin, Joanna Russ and Tiptree his/herself.

Never having met or contacted JT/AS in real life, my effort largely concerns one of Tiptree's Yucatan stories, a little off the usual Tiptree track but related in Tiptree's own supposed persona as a psychologist and long-term visitor to the Yucatan. It's from an award winning antho of the 1980s.

   TALES OF THE QUINTANA ROO: What Came Ashore at Lirios; The Boy Who Waterskied to Forever; Beyond the Dead Reef by Tiptree, James Jr. (pen name used by Alice B. Sheldon) - 1986 - from W. Fraser Sandercombe and Biblio.com


There were things that bugged me about the story, but it's also stuck in my head when many others, including some more famous ones of Tiptree's, have slithered out, so my epistle deals with some of the questions I was never able to ask the writer. More questions than answers, but that's the way it is, most times, when you try speaking to the dead. So to speak.

Shd. be a fun antho when it emerges, all the same.


Letters From:

Kathryn Allan
Marleen Barr
Stephanie Burgis
Joyce Chng
Aliette de Bodard
L. Timmel Duchamp
A.J. Fitzwater
Lisa Goldstein
Theodora Goss
Nicola Griffith - read online at LA Review of Books
Valentin D Ivanov
Gwyneth Jones
Rose Lemberg
Sylvia Kelso
Alex Dally MacFarlane
Brit Mandelo - read online at Tor.com
Sandra McDonald
Seanan McGuire
Karen Miller
Judith Moffet
Cheryl Morgan
Pat Murphy
Sarah Pinsker
Cat Rambo
Tansy Rayner Roberts
Justina Robson
Nisi Shawl
Nike Sulway
Lucy Sussex
Rachel Swirsky
Bogi Takács
Lynne M. Thomas
Elisabeth Vonarburg
Jo Walton
Tess Williams
- See more at: http://www.twelfthplanetpress.com/products/ebooks/letters-to-tiptree#sthash.jKrwPGSq.dpuf

Letters From:

Kathryn Allan
Marleen Barr
Stephanie Burgis
Joyce Chng
Aliette de Bodard
L. Timmel Duchamp
A.J. Fitzwater
Lisa Goldstein
Theodora Goss
Nicola Griffith - read online at LA Review of Books
Valentin D Ivanov
Gwyneth Jones
Rose Lemberg
Sylvia Kelso
Alex Dally MacFarlane
Brit Mandelo - read online at Tor.com
Sandra McDonald
Seanan McGuire
Karen Miller
Judith Moffet
Cheryl Morgan
Pat Murphy
Sarah Pinsker
Cat Rambo
Tansy Rayner Roberts
Justina Robson
Nisi Shawl
Nike Sulway
Lucy Sussex
Rachel Swirsky
Bogi Takács
Lynne M. Thomas
Elisabeth Vonarburg
Jo Walton
Tess Williams
- See more at: http://www.twelfthplanetpress.com/products/ebooks/letters-to-tiptree#sthash.jKrwPGSq.dpuf

Letters From:

Kathryn Allan
Marleen Barr
Stephanie Burgis
Joyce Chng
Aliette de Bodard
L. Timmel Duchamp
A.J. Fitzwater
Lisa Goldstein
Theodora Goss
Nicola Griffith - read online at LA Review of Books
Valentin D Ivanov
Gwyneth Jones
Rose Lemberg
Sylvia Kelso
Alex Dally MacFarlane
Brit Mandelo - read online at Tor.com
Sandra McDonald
Seanan McGuire
Karen Miller
Judith Moffet
Cheryl Morgan
Pat Murphy
Sarah Pinsker
Cat Rambo
Tansy Rayner Roberts
Justina Robson
Nisi Shawl
Nike Sulway
Lucy Sussex
Rachel Swirsky
Bogi Takács
Lynne M. Thomas
Elisabeth Vonarburg
Jo Walton
Tess Williams
- See more at: http://www.twelfthplanetpress.com/products/ebooks/letters-to-tiptree#sthash.jKrwPGSq.dpuf

Letters From:

Kathryn Allan
Marleen Barr
Stephanie Burgis
Joyce Chng
Aliette de Bodard
L. Timmel Duchamp
A.J. Fitzwater
Lisa Goldstein
Theodora Goss
Nicola Griffith - read online at LA Review of Books
Valentin D Ivanov
Gwyneth Jones
Rose Lemberg
Sylvia Kelso
Alex Dally MacFarlane
Brit Mandelo - read online at Tor.com
Sandra McDonald
Seanan McGuire
Karen Miller
Judith Moffet
Cheryl Morgan
Pat Murphy
Sarah Pinsker
Cat Rambo
Tansy Rayner Roberts
Justina Robson
Nisi Shawl
Nike Sulway
Lucy Sussex
Rachel Swirsky
Bogi Takács
Lynne M. Thomas
Elisabeth Vonarburg
Jo Walton
Tess Williams
- See more at: http://www.twelfthplanetpress.com/products/ebooks/letters-to-tiptree#sthash.jKrwPGSq.dpuf