Okay, revised my pitch-turned-outline for “The Bloody Eagle,” incorporating George’s notes, so I think I know what I’m writing for this Wild Cards novella now. Sri Lanka, 2003, a war story, disease demon, changeable hawk-eagle, guerrilla fighters (but not the Tigers), check. This is going to be fun. But now I’m feeling totally brain-fried — […]
One more event for this week: Tasveer’s 2020 symposium “South Asian Diaspora and Black Lives Matter: Cinematic and Literary Perspectives” scheduled to take place on Thursday, October 29th, 5:00pm PST. Sorry for the short notice! Participants: Mary Anne Mohanraj: Author and participant, “South Asian Speculative Fiction” panel Yashica Dutt: Author and participant: “Dalitness in Diaspora”
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I have a publishing question. I have a dozen or so books in my backlist that aren’t being actively promoted at the moment (in some cases, for years) by various prior publishers. I’d like to get the rights back, and indie publish them myself as ebooks at least — some aren’t available in digital form
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Your periodic reminder that if the weather is getting colder where you are, be sure your hands stay warm while you’re typing. Cold tightens the tendons, and makes them more prone to injury. I tried something new yesterday — these plug-in to a USB port, and heat just a little bit. It wasn’t a dramatic
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Congratulations, Asha Thanki! 2020—The Speculative Literature Foundation and DesiLit are pleased to announce that Asha Thanki is the winner of the $1000 2020 A.C. Bose Grant. Thanki’s winning piece is titled “Somewhere in Bombay, a Fog Descends.” Thanki is a fiction writer and essayist living in Minneapolis, where she is completing an MFA at the
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Recorded a three-hour podcast session with Jed Hartman and Benjamin Rosenbaum this morning — oof. We were talking about drafting and revision and workshops and I guess we had a lot to say. It’s so great, talking with them, but I’m also always kind of drained afterwards — it’s intense, sort of like attending a
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If you missed the Tasveer panel about South Asian speculative fiction, it was really a great conversation, and is available here:
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Okay, here’s another question for you folks, while we’re brainstorming. We were thinking of putting together little selections of my Jump Space sci-fi stories and releasing them as mini ebooks. Keep in mind that you can read them for free on the web! But this would let you have the convenience of reading them from
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Vintage travel tea towel, complete. In the last draft, added a golden glow and a little flyer. Mock-up of tea towel as it’d print through Spoonflower, as well as the original design. Travel is pretty limited right now, of course, but If you’d like to visit Kriti, you can read stories set there here: http://maryannemohanraj.com/science-fiction-fantasy/
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What’s it like writing in a shared world consortium? I talk with four other Wild Cards writers about our structure and process. With our co-editor and co-writer Melinda M. Snodgrass, Kevin Andrew Murphy, Paul Cornell, and David D. Levine.
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