Archive for May, 2010

This Wednesday at Pandemonium; BEA; and Some Very Important Questions

Updates! I gots ‘em! This Wednesday, I’ll be signing at Pandemonium Books in Cambridge, Mass with Leah Cypess, author of Mistwood. I just finished Mistwood yesterday, by the way, and it’s absolutely wonderful. I’ll do a Subway Literature post on it after the signing, but in the meantime, let me just say I read it [...]

Monday, May 31st, 2010

Release Day!!

Never mind that the book’s been in stores for a couple of weeks and I appear to have lost my countdown widget–it’s Release Day! Oboyoboyoboyoboy!! This weekend was great. Friday The Boneshaker was reviewed by Cory Doctorow on BoingBoing, which would’ve been enough excitement for one week, but then Saturday was the launch party. Steven [...]

Monday, May 24th, 2010

The Informed Voter Project Concludes: The Nebula Novel Finalists

Two days remain until this year’s Nebula Awards Banquet, and it’s time for the final installment of the Informed Voter Project covering the finalists in the novel category. I had read four of the six books before I decided to start this project; in fact, my enthusiasm for them is what made me decide this [...]

Friday, May 14th, 2010

The Informed Voter Project Returns: The Andre Norton Award Finalists

When last I posted in this series it was a little over a month ago, the day before the voting deadline for the Nebula, Bradbury and Andre Norton awards.  At the time I still had the two full-length novel categories left to review–and, er, two books left to read. It was a close thing. All [...]

Friday, May 7th, 2010

My Book, for Really and for True, or: The Best Reason I Ever Had for Going to Pieces in Public

When I was in first grade and got picked as Central Elementary School’s “Writer of the Week,” I was pretty sure that, with a little hard work, I would be published before I graduated to middle school. I’m sure I’m not the only one with something like this in his or her past. I’ve wanted [...]

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010