Kameron Hurley | Author | Speaker | Futurist

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Light Brigade

From the Hugo Award-winning author of The Stars Are Legion comes a brand-new science fiction thriller about a futuristic war during which soldiers are broken down into light in order to get them to the front lines on Mars. They said the war would turn us into light. I wanted to be counted among the heroes who […]

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Darkest Timeline, Events
Oct 26, 2018

SIRENS 2018 Keynote: History, Storytelling, and Narrating the Future #Sirens18 #Sirens2018

This is the base script of the keynote I gave at the Sirens 2018 conference in Beaver Creek, Colorado. It’s missing my FUNNY AND GENIUS asides, but this gives you the core message. It seemed to make people happy! Go forth, friends! NOTE: I opened with an extemporaneous anecdote about my Spanish book tour, and how […]

Kcast, Podcast
Jul 30, 2018

GET TO WORK HURLEY. Episode 10. In this episode, we’re talking about crowdfunding workshops, thoughts on how to weigh the cost/benefit of attending conventions or other events, and why you might turn down (or snap up) one of those juicy Star Wars or Marvel tie-ins

Heya folks! The GET TO WORK HURLEY podcast is a monthly rant about the hustle of making a living as a writer of All of the Things. You can support this podcast each month as a Patron or make a one-time donation. EPISODE TEN: In this episode, we’re talking about crowdfunding workshops, thoughts on how to weigh the cost/benefit of […]

Bookery
Jun 20, 2018

Books I’ve Recommended to My Mother

I’ve been reading a lot of domestic thrillers recently. This started with reading The Girl on the Train to see what all the fuss was about, and I found it to be one of those masterful examples of an unreliable narrator with bonus drunken debauchery. Then my mom rec’d The Woman in Cabin 10, and […]