I went to bed just before midnight last night. I got up a little before one in the afternoon. In between those two points, I slept for something over eleven hours. I think I needed it very badly.
The full table of contents for An Alphabet of Embers is now online. I am looking forward to this book so very much. Nearly half of the contributors are unknown to me, and the slightly more than half that I do know are authors I love. Illustrations by M. Sereno. Publication cannot come fast enough as far as I'm concerned.
My short story "A Wolf in Iceland Is the Child of a Lie" (Not One of Us #45) has been selected for reprint by Lightspeed Magazine. I have a lot of affection for this story. It is one of the few to come out of a difficult period in my life; when I finished it in December 2010, it was the first piece of fiction I had managed to complete since "The Mirror of Venus" in May 2008. It is also my only successful attempt at writing directly about Norse myth, despite or because of my early and intense imprinting on the characters and cosmology. I taught myself a small amount of Old Norse for it. I am delighted that it will have a wider audience.
And those would have been the three things that make a post, except that I just found out:
Ghost Signs has its first review. Amal El-Mohtar has reviewed "The Boatman's Cure" for Rich and Strange:
I recommend, enormously, with the whole of my salt-bottled heart, the reading of Taaffe's entire collection, which is very possibly her best yet; I only reserve judgment on that front because it's been too long since I read Postcards from the Province of Hyphens. But if you aren't a lover of poetry but are a lover of prose that's rich and strange, I fervently recommend purchasing the collection for this story alone.
And that is wonderful.
The full table of contents for An Alphabet of Embers is now online. I am looking forward to this book so very much. Nearly half of the contributors are unknown to me, and the slightly more than half that I do know are authors I love. Illustrations by M. Sereno. Publication cannot come fast enough as far as I'm concerned.
My short story "A Wolf in Iceland Is the Child of a Lie" (Not One of Us #45) has been selected for reprint by Lightspeed Magazine. I have a lot of affection for this story. It is one of the few to come out of a difficult period in my life; when I finished it in December 2010, it was the first piece of fiction I had managed to complete since "The Mirror of Venus" in May 2008. It is also my only successful attempt at writing directly about Norse myth, despite or because of my early and intense imprinting on the characters and cosmology. I taught myself a small amount of Old Norse for it. I am delighted that it will have a wider audience.
And those would have been the three things that make a post, except that I just found out:
Ghost Signs has its first review. Amal El-Mohtar has reviewed "The Boatman's Cure" for Rich and Strange:
I recommend, enormously, with the whole of my salt-bottled heart, the reading of Taaffe's entire collection, which is very possibly her best yet; I only reserve judgment on that front because it's been too long since I read Postcards from the Province of Hyphens. But if you aren't a lover of poetry but are a lover of prose that's rich and strange, I fervently recommend purchasing the collection for this story alone.
And that is wonderful.
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