Monthly Archives: July 2014

Goals: Release timeline (revised), Inside the Jump cover reveal!

Revision and editing on Tales from the Inhabited Worlds took a lot longer than anticipated, so the Inside the Jump and The Lost Pissarro have been moved to August. We’re currently negotiating release dates for the next projects in the … Continue reading

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 27 July 2014 (WIP: Leonie Hallward)

The fact of human faces — well, that’s another thing. I cherish that portrait of me that uncle Basil painted, because it is honest. It is a more honest mirror than my own silvered glass, for it observes what I … Continue reading

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 20 July 2014 (WIP: Leonie Hallward)

My mother and Basil argued over color, in a way that was immediately familiar when I was a student at the Academie Julian, drinking strong tea in the cafes with my friends. Those quarrels were the grown-up correspondent of my … Continue reading

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 13 July 2014 (WIP: Leonie Hallward)

The summer after my uncle Basil’s disappearance, we stayed at his country pied-a-terre, in which my father was part-owner. Nothing had been changed; the place was still as it had been. The studio was closed off; one afternoon Ralph and I ventured … Continue reading

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 7 July 2014 (WIP: Ship’s Heart)

In the center loomed up a monument, unlit, a bulk of shadow against the stars; Martisset squinted into the darkness to make out details–hooves and legs of a horse, leg of the rider–then no longer needed to, as Martisset the … Continue reading

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Flash Fiction: Bad Parents

 “No, I do not think that a wise idea.” Tethys watched their expressions fall. “But others have done it.” Three of her own children, many times over that in clan-children and marriage-protegees, and she never ceased hearing that excuse. She … Continue reading

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Live (more or less) from CONvergence 2014

Jet-lagged without the glamour of actual travel, I’m reminding myself that moderation is the secret of sanity at an event this big. At 12:30 US Central, I’ll be participating on a panel on Magic Realism, and will probably have interesting … Continue reading

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Goals: July releases, CONvergence panels, and editing blues

I’m still putting in the edits from the final review of Tales from the Inhabited Worlds, whose release is being moved into July. And I’ve come down with a cold, not such a a big deal except that CONvergence impends. And I’m going … Continue reading

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