(if you’re only here for the giveaway, here’s the details: To enter to win a full-color, wall-sized map of what appears in MIRROR EMPIRE, signed by the author, simply reply to this post on Facebook, Google Plus, or @tweet the same to me @kameronhurley with tag #mirrorempire and let me know your favorite fantasy map, yours or someone […]
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I wasn’t going to comment at length on this, because MIRROR EMPIRE and EMPIRE ASCENDANT are published by Angry Robot Books, as opposed to its imprints, which were cancelled today, Exhibit A and Strange Chemistry. My heart goes out to all the staff and authors affected by these decisions, which I know were painful. I’ve had
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Surfacing from the ragged bowels of the EMPIRE ASCENDANT manuscript to note that two weeks from today, I’ll be in Bloomington, MN for CONvergence. I’ll be rolling in midday or so on Thursday, and out of there Sunday morning. Do catch me at a signing or after a panel. I’ll also be bringing a few
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I generally prefer to stick to positive imagery and commentary here, and I may eventually delete this post, but I keep seeing these lists of “vintage” sexist ads from the 50’s,60’s, and 70’s shared online so that folks may gloat about how “enlightened” we are in “this day and age.” I work in marketing and
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Why pre-order an epic fantasy coming out in August! So far away, right? Oh, you mean what other reasons…. Besides blood mages, sentient trees, living swords?? Here’s seven MORE great reasons: 1) This cover: 2) This review: Read it. 3) This excerpt: Read the rest 4) All these excited people:
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I was sitting around with some folks at my day job, waiting for another colleague to arrive for a meeting, when someone asked me how my vacation had been. “Oh, the usual,” I said. “I had book deadlines.” This turned into a discussion about the trials of publishing, book covers, and author control over payments
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Though I would not call it a LONG wait – as this deal was just announced in January – it felt like a long wait because things are moving along so fast (comparatively!) with THE MIRROR EMPIRE. But here it is, the epic fantasy I’m seriously hoping I had the chops to write (you should
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Happy book release day to my second novel, INFIDEL sequel to the Clarke Award nominated GOD’S WAR, out today in the UK. Nyx and co. are back. You get a beheading in, like, the first six or eight pages. It just gets better from there. Still on sale through the end of today for 2.99 in
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In the first grade (3rd grade? whatever), my best friend ran for some student office, a rather innocuous one, I believe, like Treasurer or something like that. Treasurer was – I knew, even then – a good bet. He was an exceptionally gifted kid: smart, funny, brilliant; played violin and piano, read chapter books to
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Spoilers ahoy! When I was sixteen, I dated a guy a with a madonna/whore complex. I had no idea what that was, at the time, being a young woman from a rural town where belittling women as sluts and whores was pretty typical. You were either “the type of woman men married” or you
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