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PODCASTS AND VIDEOS
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Books, X-files, pulp, politics, Umberto Eco, and voice on Intermultiversal Space with Gareth Jelley!
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A delightful discussion of books, sequels, and writing through a pandemic with Jonathan Strahan at The Coode Street Podcast!
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My reading of 'A Guide to Burying The Old Man When No One Else Will' at the BFSA YouTube channel!
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Terrific interview with Julie Duffy at Story a Day — short stories, writing in general, and running on fumes
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Video for Super Relaxed Fantasy Club! Come see my writing setup, hear me read a poem, and take a tiny tour through my disorganized shelves!
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Best ever podcast with Breaking the Glass Slipper – and some very flexible hosts when we realized we weren’t talking about the same time zones!
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Podcast with Rose Quinn! Misophonics should be aware though: my side of the interview has a lot of fuzz and noise.
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Appeared on Tales from the Trunk Episode 9, November 15, being interviewed by the terrific Hilary Bisenieks!
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Discussion with the Edmonton Public Library for their podcast, Overdue Finds! Episode 43, which is about NaNoWriMo, fictional books, and pen names. I gush about ‘The Name of the Rose’ (of course) and Maria Dahvana Headley’s ‘The Mere Wife.’ I neglect to gush about my books.
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Interview in Dublin with Beth Gauld of Speculative Spaces (I’m in around the 12-minute mark) plus I participate in a game of Werewolf vs. Shark for subscribers! (I’m not a werewolf or a shark, but we had a very good game!)
INTERVIEWS AND Q&A'S
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An interview and review of 'Beneath the Rising' on the most excellent Alasdair Stuart's brilliant weekly newsletter, The Full Lid!
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Forbidden Planet Q&A and a little excerpt from ‘Beneath the Rising’! Includes also my explanation re: FRANKENCANOLA
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Interview with Fadwa for Colour the Shelves!
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Super fun interview at Nerds of a Feather
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Hosted by the amazing John Scalzi for his ‘Big Ideas’ series here!
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Interview with Paul Semel about ‘Beneath the Rising’
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Blog post for Augur’s (very successful) Year 3+4 Kickstarter: Growing Minds and Imaginations
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Qwillery interview up now!
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Six Books with Nerds of a Feather — SO hard to pick. Up now!
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Q&A for my story ‘The Redoubtables‘ at Apparition Lit (scroll to the bottom!)
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Interview for my story ‘The Last’ – Apparition Lit.
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Interview for my story ‘Shepherd Moon’ – Analog
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Interview for my story ‘At the Hand of Every Beast’ – Lackington’s
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Interview for my story ‘The Adventurer’s Wife’ – Nightmare Magazine
RELATED THINGS BY OTHER PEOPLE,LISTS, &C
‘Beneath the Rising’ is on this Tor roundup of genre-bending books, this one from Tor Nightfire (their horror imprint), and this Polygon list! And also for some reason (oops) on this one, about novels set in Toronto. I assume they’ll fix it though.
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And this one from This Is Horror, though it’s not so much a roundup as a warning, sort of. 😀
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Absolutely amazing soundtrack for ‘Beneath the Rising’ on this ‘Soundtracks for Novels’ post by Meghan Ball!
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Review for ‘Beneath the Rising’ by S. Qiouyi Lu up at Strange Horizons (swoon!)
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Terrific essay including analysis of ‘Beneath the Rising’ by S. Qiouyi Lu up at Tor, A Framework for Decolonizing Speculative Fiction: Beneath the Rising and Steel Crow Saga
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And review on The Quill to Live (great name) by Alex Tas
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‘Us & Ours’ covered splendidly at the Lovecraft Reread at Tor!
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Wonderful review of ‘A Secret Guide to Fighting Elder Gods’ at Skiffy and Fanty
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Nice review of ‘Shepherd Moon’ at Reviews and Robots
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Review of the whole issue of Analog that included ‘Shepherd Moon’ at Featured Futures, SF Revu, and Tangent Online
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A raft of nice reviews, excerpts, and recommendations for ‘The Apple-Tree Throne’:
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Indie Spec Fic excerpt and summary
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Super nice review at Galen Strickland’s blog, Templeton Gate
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Gold Acorn Award at The Book Squirrel!
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5/5 Star review at Altered Instinct
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Nice review at Tamaranth’s Creative Reading
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Made KJ Charles’ Top 10 For 2018
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Nice review at 10 Bad Habits
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Recommended at Aliette de Bodard’s 2018 Awards Consideration Post!
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Nice review from Marissa Lingen’s blog
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Super thoughtful, thorough review at Vanessa Fogg’s blog
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Nice review at Jai Baidell’s blog
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Lovely review of the whole issue of Lackington’s that included ‘At the Hand of Every Beast’ at Charles Payseur’s Quick Sip Reviews
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Notable mentions for ‘More Tomorrow’:
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Featured in a Maria Haskins’ B&N Top 10 Short Fiction Roundup in March
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Made Merc Rustad’s Favourite Fictions in June
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Also Catherine Baker’s Little Queer Ideograms Recommended Fiction for 2018 overall!
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And Sarah Waite’s The Illustrated Page May 2018 Recommendations
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‘The Water and the World’ featured in AC Wise’s Women To Read: Where to Start, December 2017
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Great review of ‘And Sneer of Cold Command’ at Charles Payseur’s Quick Sip reviews
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Notable mentions for ‘The Evaluator’:
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Super nice review of the whole anthology plus my story at Grey Dog Tales
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Ditto at SL Edwards’ Turn To Ash blog
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Honorable Mention for Best Horror of the Year 2017 by Ellen Datlow
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Notable mentions for ‘Four Hours of a Revolution’:
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Called out in Best of Pseudopod 2017 at Diabolical Plots, Honorable Mention
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Featured in 20 Splendiferous Stories I Read In August, Maria Haskins
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Notable mentions for ‘Willing’:
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Beautifully and thoughtfully five-star reviewed by Marion Deeds here at Fantasy Literature!
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Great review at Tangent Online of the whole anthology with detailed writeups for each story
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A lovely shout-out at SF Reader
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Nice overall review at The Well-Rounded Geek
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Notable mentions for ‘The Last’:
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‘Sixteen Minutes’ included here on 6 Creepy Stories by WoC at Book Riot!
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‘The Adventurer’s Wife’ initial go-round thoughtfully and thoroughly reviewed here, by Derek Newman-Stille and here by Derek Conrad! (This story seems to really resonate with Dereks.) And the anthology straight-up won a 2016 World Fantasy Award!