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Steles of the Sky Giveaway, Michael R Underwood, and Storium
Over at Apex, I interviewed matociquala about worldbuilding, teaching, gossip, and new projects - and there's a giveaway going on for the third Eternal Sky book, Steles of the Sky - still time to enter ( Read more... ) -
Recent Cooking the Books - Editors, Agents, and a Sandwich Manifesto
Recently, on Cooking the Books -- Agent Russ Galen talks about Many Things At Once, and pasta-based space opera.
- Author David Edison presents his Sandwich Manifesto.
- The Food of the Future Roundtable at Tor.com
- Tor Assistant Editor Miriam Weinberg talks Anime and the parallels between cooking and editing.
- Award-nominated author Ann Leckie discusses The ( Read more... )
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Behind curtain # 3...
I miss livejournal so much you guys. But I can't keep multiple content plates spinning and I forget to post here sometimes. All my convos and thoughts have pretty much moved by this point to my blog and the twitter, along with any reminders about new Cooking the Books content.
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New Cooking the Books is up!
Joe (joe_haldeman) and Gay Haldeman joined me, armed with recipes, travel memories, a how-to for cooking pizza in a foxhole, with explosives, and an extraordinary list of Joe's work that features wonderful meals. Come see: http://franwilde.wordpress.com/2012/08/21/foxhole-pizza-and-interstellar-quail-cooking-the-books-with-joe-and-gay-haldeman/ -
An exciting announcement over on the blog
The wonderful folks from The Journal of Unlikely Entomology will be visiting in June! And bringing recipes...What could possibly go wrong? -
The Chimerical Kitchen: Cooking the Books with Elizabeth Bear
Today, author Elizabeth Bear (matociquala) talks about food, worldbuilding, salt caramels, and Range of Ghosts (Tor, 2012) over at Cooking the Books.
This was such a fun interview to do - Bear is awesome, people. (I know you're not shocked.) Come on over and see why!
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Gregory Frost visits to talk 1840s cooking, research, and etouffee
Over on the think-space, we have frostokovich talking about the research he's doing for his WIP "Dark House" . The last time I did a 'cooking the books' post, Steven Gould visited. To wit, his views on Elephant Stew.
With that, I'm off to work some more on the middle of the first book in the City series (from "The City Goes Up," a short story I wrote at Viable ( Read more... ) -
2 questions - brainfood & enquiries
1. Over on the thinky space - how do you feed your brain?
2. About enquiring to a magazine or journal about a submission. (really, I'm asking for a friend... mhm.) If subs are going over the stated return time in general (thx. Duotrope), is it better to enquire when yours does the same, or to remain quiet? Do journals see an enquiry at that point ( Read more... ) -
The past 90 days
So, thanks to the folks at Viable Paradise, I achieved a writing goal much sooner than I thought I would. I ramble about it over on the thinky space.
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Over on the thinky space... Author Steven Gould
What does Elephant Stew have to do with writing a novel? Author Steven Gould was kind enough to talk with me about how he cooks books recently. You can read more here.