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| Remember how for the longest time you could only get the third Tony Foster book, Smoke and Ashes, as an ebook?Remember how irritating that was? Guess what? Book one and two are finally available. Big thanks to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1) ladymurmur who let me know! So:  amazon.com (kindle) chapters.indigo (kobo) barnes & noble (nook)  amazon.com (kindle) chapters.indigo (kobo) barnes & noble (nook) and just in case you were waiting until book one and two came out to buy the ebook of book three  amazon.com (kindle) chapters.indigo (kobo) barnes & noble (nook) All three books are also available as iBooks in Canada -- I can't guarentee anywhere else -- but because I go through the iTunes store, I have no idea of how to add a link. Sorry. | |
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| I know, we're already five months into 2012. I assure you, had I been guesting at a convention in the first five months of the year I would have mentioned it in a timely manner. Although, given what the first four months of this year were like... no promises. Fortunately, my first convention in 2012 is in June. Near the end of the month. Also, mea culpa. ApolloCon 2012 - Houston, TX When: June 22nd to June 24th Where: DoubleTree Houston International, Houston, Texas, USA Who: GOH: Tanya Huff Artist GOH: Jael Fan GOH: Candace Pulliene Saskatchewan Festival of Words: Summer FestivalWhen: July 19th - 22nd Where: Moosejaw, Saskatchewan Who: Twenty-five presenters across most literary fields and music World Fantasty Convention 2012When: November 1st - 4th Where: Sheraton Parkway Toronto North, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Who: Author GOH: Elizabeth Hand Encyclopedist GOH: John Clute
Artist GOH: Richard A. Kirk
Toastmaster: Gary K. Wolfe
Special Guests: Charles de Lint
Tanya Huff
Patricia Briggs
Mercedes Lackey
Larry Dixon
Chambanacon42
When: November 23rd to 25th
Where: Holiday Inn and Convention Center, Urbana, IL, USA
Who: GOH: Tanya Huff
Fan GOH: Doc and Anne Passovoy
Toastmaster: Michael Longcor
I'll also be doing a one day event locally in July (which is why I won't be Polaris) and a one day event in Toronto in August, both of which I'll post about when I have the final details. Okay, honesty forces me to clarify: both of which I intend to post about when I have the final details. Road to hell. Yadda yadda.
I'll try to mention each convention closer to the date but if you want to cover your bases you'll have a slightly better chance of an update if you follow me on twitter (@TanyaHuff) where I post frequently. Although not as frequently as some. You know who you are. :)
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| Remember how every now and then you'd ask me when the Blood books were coming out in audio? And remember how I'd say I had no idea but as soon as I found out, I'd tell you?
The Blood books are out in audio and up today at audible.com. (Can I have a yay?)(But only if audio books are your thing, of course.)
Here they are: Blood Price, Blood Trail, Blood Lines, Blood Pact, Blood Debt, and even Blood Bank.
Narrated by Justine Eyre, that's... hang on, I'll need a calculator for this... that's 63 hours and 28 minutes of Vicki, Henry, and Mike. Suitable for listening to in the car, on the treadmill, and while stuck in planes that haven't updated their entertainment system since the 80's so they only have those stupid little screens that are not only usually in the wrong place but the movie is something you'd never watch in a million years. ::cough Adam Sandler cough::
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| So, I haven't been around for a while -- given the whole trying to finish the new book and not exactly succeeding yet thing -- but tonight when I stopped by I find a plethora of hearts and dragons! Thank you everyone! What a wonderful thing to see on a day my brain is dripping out my ears.
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| It occured to me last night -- well, technically at about three this morning when I was lying awake thinking of those sorts of things you think about at three in the morning -- that at least two of the books on the fiction of 2011 list (last post) weren't actually fiction. One was a biography, one was a travel book, and one was a book about a guy hitchhiking around Ireland with a fridge -- which is clearly in a class of book all on its own possibly called Eccentric Things the English Do.
However, "books that I didn't read for work" isn't exactly accurate because I read SF&F not only because I love it but because it behooves me to keep up to the field. (pause for hysterical laughter -- that's been impossible for about thirty years) And I can't call it "pleasure reading of 2011" because I enjoy everything I read including A Traveler's Guide to Cape Breton which I most definitely read for work.
This is why it now says Fiction of 2011 which I would have read even if I wasn't writing in the genre plus three other books I didn't read for specifically for work. In case any of you noticed. | |
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| Fiction of 2011 which I would have read even if I wasn't writing in the genre plus three other books I didn't read for specifically for work. ( Not necessarily in the order I read them... )I'm tempted to put The Wild Ways on here since I always read my books when my author's copies arrive. It makes them real. But that seems a tad self-serving because I'd do it only to bring the list to 42. Somehow, as I'm typing this mid-afternoon on New Year's Eve and my kitchen needs to be slightly less than a toxic waste dump before company arrives, I doubt I'll have time to read anything else -- although another, less busy year I might have made the attempt. | |
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| I was so very tempted to quote Britney Spears as subject line. You're welcome. So... a second e-collection up! One story less than Nights of the Round Table but still about 44,000 words. (Two stories are over 8K) I'm cramming a short story deadline set in the Quarters mythos plus trying to get major wordage in on the not!Napoleonic werewolves so rather than babble at you, I'm just going to let February Thaw and Other Stories of Contemporary Fantasy speak for itself while I go back to work. Okay? Cool. Links at the bottom.  February Thaw and Other Tales of Contemporary Fantasy is the 2nd e-collection by Tanya Huff and brings together some of the short fiction that helped define the field. From an Imperial Dragon in Toronto's Chinatown, to a heavy metal retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk, to the realization that the ancient gods are one highly dysfunctional family, Huff skews our world slightly sideways. These seven stories with brand new introductions by the author, remind us that the weird and the wonderful is all around us if we only bother to look. February Thaw and Other Tales of Contemporary Fantasy 1. February Thaw -first published in Olympus, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Bruce D. Arthurs, DAW Books, Inc., 1998; collected in What Ho, Magic! Meisha Merlin 1999 2. Burning Bright -first published in Earth, Air, Fire, Water edited by Margaret Weiss, DAW Books, Inc. 1999; collected in Relative Magic, Meisha Merlin, 2003 3. When the Student is Ready -first published in Apprentice Fantastic, edited by Russell Davis and Martin H. Greenberg, DAW Books Inc., 2002; collected in Relative Magic, Meisha Merlin, 2003 4. Jack -first published in Little Red Riding Hood in the Big Bad City, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and John Helfers, DAW Books Inc., 2004; collected in Finding Magic, ISFiC Press 2007 5. Symbols are a Percussion Instrument -first published in Tarot Fantastic edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Lawrence Schimel, DAW Books Inc., 1997; collected in What Ho, Magic, Meisha Merlin, 1999 6. Shing Li'ung -first published in Dragon Fantastic edited by Rosalind M. Greenberg and Martin H. Greenberg, DAW Books Inc., 1992; collected in What Ho, Magic, Meisha Merlin, 1999 7. A Midsummer Night's Dream Team -first published in Elf Fantastic edited by Martin H. Greenberg, DAW Books, Inc., 1997; collected in What Ho, Magic, Meisha Merlin, 1999 Cover design by Jenn Reese at Tiger Bright Studios (www.tigerbrightstudios.com)
Linkage:
Amazon.com (US & Canada apparently) (Kindle)
Barnes and Noble (Nook)
Amazon.uk (Kindle)
Amazon.de (Kindle)
Chapters (Kobo)
I'm not finding it on iBooks yet but that could easily be me. I've always found Apple hard to search. Anyone finds it, I'd appreciate the link. TIA.
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| As a Canadian writer writing in what became popularized as an American genre (although the world has certainly claimed it) I end up on a lot of "difference between Canadian and American SF&F" panels up on this side of the border. We, as Canadians are constantly on a search for our identity. Actually, the search for identity has become a large part of our identity. The one thing we're sure of, and it may be the only thing we agree on, is that we're not Americans. It's not that we don't like Americans, it's more that there's over 300 million of them and about 31 million of us and they're a little... exuberant. We're more than a little afraid of being lost in the crowd, swept away by MacDonalds, and Starbucks, and Wallmart, and HBO so we hang on, knuckles white (well, the knuckles of the hand not currently holding a McRib), and keep repeating the one thing, the only thing that unites the nation. We're not Americans. We don't know exactly what it means, but we know we believe it. When the OWS protests started in America, Canadians looked at their economy and said, "Well, our banks didn't fail, and our CEO aren't as WTF greedy as theirs, and our political system works completely differently but a very few companies seem to have one heck of a lot of power and maybe we should nip this in the bud before it gets that bad. There's a hell of lot of people in this country not being heard, let's be a voice for them." And OWS protests started up in most major, a few minor, and a couple of very small cities in Canada. A few days ago in NYC, as I'm sure you're all aware, the police were ordered out in the middle of the night to remove the OWS protest from the park where they'd set up camp. First, they got rid of the press, arresting those they couldn't order away, then they ripped up the camp, tossed it into dumpsters, and just generally acted like jackbooted thugs. There's a lot video out there on the internet; you want to see what people were recording and uploading as this happened, it's not hard. Toronto, likes to think it's Canada's NYC. A few days ago, the police walked through the camp, taping eviction notices to the tents of the OWS protesters. Oh, and there's pictures in the mainstream press because the press was there. The protest (as an entity) challenged the eviction notices in court and got a stay while the situation is studied in reference to rights laid out in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. From the CBC news article linked below: Ultimately, the burden shifts to the city to justify the measures that it's taken — in this case, issuing eviction notices — and determine if that’s "proportionate or is this overkill? Are there other alternatives?"Yes, the courts are going to determine if taping an eviction notice to a tent is overkill. We're not Americans. I'm pretty good with that actually. ETA: According to @newsdude1 on twitter the overkill refers to the total dismantling of the camp. My opinion on it stands. ETA2: I'm not saying that Canadian police aren't capable of acting like jackbooted thugs, I think what happened at the G20 proved fairly conclusively that they can. This time, however, they aren't. When OccupyNS was evicted, it was the middle of the afternoon and the press were there. When OccupyLondonOn was evicted it was at night because they were enforcing a bylaw that prohibits staying in the park between 10pm & 6am which they could only enforce well, between 10 & 6. But again, the press were there and there were no reports of violence and no arrests (according to CBC reporter Kerry McKee) Will charter protect OWS protesters from eviction? | |
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| Just a reminder that I'll be signing THE WILD WAYS today, Saturday, November 12th, at Bakka-Phoenix (84 Harbord Street, Toronto, 416.963.9993) from 3PM to 5PM.
If you can't get there, well, I'll be sad, but Bakka does mail order. If you call before I leave, you can still have a personalized signature that you can use to pretend you were there should you ever need an alibi. Not that I'm suggesting you'd ever need an alibi.
If you haven't seen the new store yet, it's worth the trip all on its own even without my being there. Which I will be. Signing books. Today. November 12th. Waiting for you to walk through the door...
Did I mention there'll be cookies? Did I mention my jeans need you to be there to eat the cookies so I won't? Did you know that in the old days, the staff used to bake the cookies themselves? Clive Barker has eaten one of my gingersnaps. This is not a euphamism... | |
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