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Charmed Story to Chapbook

29/7/2014

The 'charmed story' I wrote about last week, "Fairchild's Folly," has been turned into a chapbook with a beautiful cover by artist Jennie Gyllblad.

Isn't it pretty?!

It will only be available at Nine Worlds GeekFest, where I am to be a guest (more on that soon). It's a very limited run of 176, and I'll sign 26 of them before they are all put in the con's freebie bags.

I love my editor! He's really gone to bat for this story.

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"How was the signing?" you ask

25/7/2014

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It was BRILLIANT!

My editor, Jared Shurin from Jurassic London, put together a great event at the National Maritime Museum. During the Dark and Stormy Late, we gathered beneath a wall of nautical figureheads where he introduced the anthology Irregularity and three contributors each gave a very quick reading (and I can't wait to read each of their stories, as well as all of the others in the book). Then all of the authors who were there went to the museum shop and signed books: all of the hardbacks (there are still some available via the museum giftshop), as well as hardbacks and paperbacks bought by the readers. It was so much fun! I signed a few title pages for the whole anthology, but most readers wanted each of us authors to sign the title page to our stories. On most of my title pages, I wrote 'To ___-- Love is chaos--' and then signed at the bottom of the page.

I've done a reading and signing before, for the Best Women's Erotica 2012 anthology that my story 'All's Fair' is included in, but never before had I done a signing of this size. It's such great fun to talk to the people who have bought the book. I just hope they enjoy my story as much as I enjoyed writing it!

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"It's all very Irregular!"

24/7/2014

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My newest publication is out TODAY!

"Fairchild's Folly," about Thomas Fairchild and Carl Linnaeus, is released into the wild in Irregularity, an anthology that explores order and chaos in science in the 17th and 18th centuries.

It's out in paperback in the UK and the US
and ebook in the UK and US.

If you want a copy of the fancy-schmancy limited edition hardback, you can order one from the National Maritime Museum (but they won't go on sale until later tonight after the official launch).

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Charmed

18/7/2014

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After you've been writing for a while, you start to know--as much as anyone can KNOW anything--when a story is good. It feels charmed. That's the only way I can describe it. "If Wishes Were Horses", my first sale, felt charmed when I wrote it. Scenes in my first novel did, too. And there is one whole section of the PhD novel that makes me happy and calm and sparkly every time I open the file (here's to hoping that the other parts start to take on that particular sheen when I work on revisions).

The story that comes out next week, "Fairchild's Folly", had that same buzz when I wrote it. I'm not sure what it's from: Knowing that I'm on the right track early on? Understanding what a story is *about* (the story that lives beneath the plot mechanics--the story underneath the story) when I'm writing the first draft? That feeling of standing back and watching it all unspool itself (aka, getting out of my own way)?

I. Don't. Know.

But I have accepted that I don't have to know why. That I will likely never know why. And the more I write, the more I catch that mojo. Perhaps it comes from practice--a certain maturity or ability to let go of the fear and let the story happen rather than overthinking it (again, getting out of your own way).

What I DO know, though, is that charmed stories take on a life of their own out in the world. And, if you're lucky enough to have amazing people who believe in you and your work, those little charmed stories become bigger than the page. This is slowly happening to "Fairchild's Folly", which isn't even out in public yet, HERE and HERE! (I'll come clean when I can.)

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Anthology Book Launch July 24!

9/7/2014

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In just two weeks, my short story 'Fairchild's Folly', about Thomas Fairchild and Carl Linnaeus, will be published.

Well, in truth Jurassic London's anthology Irregularity, about science, order and chaos from 1660-1860, will be presented to the world and available for sale in hardback, ebook and paperback formats. (That's the cover there on the left: ain't it nifty?)

The launch is to be held at the National Maritime Museum during their Dark and Stormy Late event. A list of amusements are planned, and for the book there will likely be readings and, possibly (still waiting for confirmation from my editor), those authors present will be signing on the Prime Meridian.

Could it BE any cooler?

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Charmed Story to Chapbook

"How was the signing?" you ask

"It's all very Irregular!"

Charmed

Anthology Book Launch July 24!

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