New Elizabeth Hand interview and ebook
Tags: Elizabeth Hand, LocusWow, is it spooky around here right now? Everywhere it’s argh! this and eek! that. What if you just want a great read? I have good news for you. Wait, turns out Elizabeth Hand’s Mortal Love was a finalist for the International Horror Guild Awards, oh no! Maybe it is dark and spooky after all? Although it was also a finalist for the Mythopoeic Award and longlisted for the Tiptree, so it has to be good, even if it is scary. Wait (again), I know the answer to this: it’s all of the above! Yep!
Annnd, don’t miss this month’s Locus which has a timely interview with Elizabeth Hand — along with all the usual other goodies:
Year’s Bests, Nalo, new is the new new
Tags: Elizabeth Hand, gender-neutral singular pronoun, Kelly Link, Mary Rickert, Maureen F. McHugh, Nalo Hopkinson, Shirley Jackson Awards, Writers Boot CampReadercon, from the brief moment I was there, was pretty good. It was a bit discombobulating to see so many people in one place. Did not see Nalo, but did talk about her books some which is a segue, see, as, look, here’s a new one from PM Press: Report from Planet Midnight. Also this week: lots of new books from Prime Books—will Paula Guran publish more anthologies than John Joseph Adams? Surely not!
Also, Maureen F. McHugh’s After the Apocalypse, Elizabeth Hand, Kelly Link, and Mary Rickert (et al) and picked up Shirley Jackson Awards. How awesome. Sorry we weren’t at the awards ceremony. Also: Maureen (and Patricia McKillip) are Guests of Honor next year at Readercon: yay!
That’s it for this week. I am in Seattle (with Kelly) teaching Clarion West and there is time to read one more story, then sleeep! Tomorrow night we go read at the excellent University Bookstore and on Wednesday we get to meet up with Nicole Kimberling, aka, the publisher of Blind Eye Books. Yay!
ETA: Yanked this from Maureen’s twitter (from here) as it is just plain exciting:
Yo! Grammar Girl here.
I have grammar news about the word yo this week.
Yo as a Pronoun
The grammar news is that Dr. Elaine Stotko, from the School of Education at Johns Hopkins University, and her student, Margaret Troyer, have discovered that school children in Baltimore are using the slang word yo as a gender-neutral singular pronoun.