Just a few quick things today. First off, LiveJournal has been acting up again, so this is a reminder that the blog is available on my site and through Dreamwidth. There’s also an RSS feed.
Secondly, it’s awards season. The only thing I really have from last year that’s eligible for anything would be Libriomancer. So if you’re eligible to nominate or vote for the Hugos, the Nebulas, the Oscars, or whatever and would like to read a copy for consideration, let me know and I’ll see what we can do to hook you up. And if not, that’s okay too.
Speaking of Libriomancer, I found out yesterday that the audio book for Libriomancer had come out…well, yesterday. I don’t see it on Amazon yet, but it’s up on the Audible website.
Oh, and while I’m thinking about it, other people have books out too! Saladin Ahmed’s book Throne of the Crescent Moon [Amazon | B&N | Mysterious Galaxy] is out in paperback. This one continues to get a lot of good buzz. My review of the book is here. Diana Pharaoh Francis’ latest Horngate Witches book Blood Winter [Amazon | B&N | Mysterious Galaxy] just came out as well. And Tobias Buckell launched his collection Mitigated Futures for his birthday. He’s also offering Tides from the New Worlds for the price of a Tweet or Facebook post.
And that’s all I’ve got today. Have a good weekend, all!
Mirrored from Jim C. Hines.
My Books
(August 2013)
Comments
Now I can read it when I go to sleep, just like my Pratchett books! :)
To be worthy of a DEEJ, a book must be so much fun to read, and have characters who are so liked by the reader and put it such bad straits by the author, that the reader is compelled to put the book down and not finish reading it until a sequel comes out. ^_~
What does DEEJ stand for?
But the worst? All the mispronunciations! It got so bad I started keeping a list...
- possession (pronounced PO-session)
- automoton (pronounced auto-maton, which grated every one of the dozens of times it appears in the text)
- The Dark Lord Sauron (the Dark Lord Sa-Ran? Wrap?)
- Feed by... Maria Grant
- Frigerator instead of refrigerator
- Golem (pronounced goo-lem)
- dimentia (pronounced de-men-she-a)
- pseudonym (pronounced pseudonism, even better after an... interesting... take on "nom de gurre")
- diety (pronounced die-ity)
- construct (con-STRUCT)
- impale (im-pall)
But the absolute worst -- the one that elicited an actual cry of disgust?
Copernicus? No, it's Coe-per-nick-us.
Suffice it to say, I will be reading book 2 in print.
Edited at 2013-01-18 08:11 pm (UTC)
On the other hand, I would totally read a short story about the Dark Lord of Saran Wrap!
Great story though! Really enjoyed myself.
Edited at 2013-01-21 09:21 pm (UTC)
Well, I'm sorry the audiobook was such a painful experience for you, but I'm glad you liked the story!