My students really liked our last story of the semester, so I share it again for your pleasure: E. Lily Yu, “The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees”
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There’s a tension at the writing retreat between wanting to write all the time, wanting to catch up on much-needed rest and sleep, and wanting to talk intensely to the other writers, who are often having a very interesting craft and/or publishing conversation. Pictured here is Alex, who clearly should’ve gone to bed, but didn’t
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Well, that’s nice to see — Vegan Serendib, still holding IngramSpark’s #1 and #2 positions in Indian and South Asian Cooking. I mean, it’s not kazillion units, as you can see, but it’s not nothing. And I’m hoping we’ll sell quite a few more as we approach the holidays and Christmas shopping kicks into full
It’s taking me a while to post the various trip photos, so I’m running a few days behind. But I’ll just note that I am astonishingly lucky enough to now be at a writing event in Hawaii (in Kauai) for another week. After a weekend of fairly focused work, I’ve finished a full draft of
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The Kingdom Still Exists, He Says Past midnight on the twenty-fourth, Kory, my ride-share driver is chatty; I tell him about my cousin’s wedding, where I have just danced myself to exhaustion, and he asks where my cousin is from. The States; this is a destination wedding. I ask him how he feels about foreigners
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Departure / Return A bird I do not recognize is singing within earshot of the lanai — I had to ask my host last night the definition of a lanai: a covered porch, a verandah — and there are bougainvillea trees above a small pool, coral, pink, fuschia, white, lavender. Small palm trees ruffle in
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Cover reveal — this is the draft cover for Tornado, my cancer memoir. I really like it — the concept is a collaboration between me, the publisher (Lori Perkins), and the artist (Scott Carpenter). I wanted the feel of a sudden tornado touching down in your life, sending everything flying — but because it is
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Quick note that today’s the last day to sign-up for tomorrow’s Zoom workshop with me, on Writing the Taboo. Please note that there’s an error in the graphic, that I don’t have time to fix! The class is 10 – 12:30 CST! Register here: https://speculativeliterature.org/courses/
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Emmanuel Henderson is here, packing up the books! I could, in theory, pack them all myself, but a) I would cry, and b) I have a lot of e-mail, teaching, grading work that only I can do, so I’m trying to hand off as much as I can to the Serendib Press team. That does
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