- April 3, 2013, Noon
Oregon State Library
250 Winter St. NE
Salem, OR
UKL reads from Finding My Elegy - April 12-13-14, 2013.
Get Lit at the Beach
Tolovana Arts Colony
Cannon Beach, OR - April 21, 2013, 2: p.m.
Milepost 5
900 NE 81st Ave
Portland, OR 97213
UKL is among the poets reading from the new “cooperative” bookThese Mountains That Separate Us - May 9, 2013
More information TBA
University Book Store
4326 University Way, N.E.
Seattle, Washington 98105
UKL appears at the book launch for Squaring the Circle, by Gheorghe Sasarman, published by Aqueduct Press. With Mariano Martin, who translated the book from Romanian into Spanish, and whose translation UKL translated into English. Various languages may be spoken. - June 15, 2013, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Klindt’s
Oregon’s oldest bookstore
15 East Second Street
The Dalles OR
Reading and signing with Roger Dorband from Out Here.
Ursula K. Le Guin Appreciations in Locus
Tags: Locus, Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin is remembered with an obituary, photos, and appreciations and reminiscences from friends and colleagues — including appreciations by Eileen Gunn, Karen Joy Fowler, Robert Silverberg, Nancy Kress, Kim Stanley Robinson, Ginger Clark, Gregory Benford, Peter S. Beagle, John Kessel, George R.R. Martin, and Tom Whitmore — in the current issue of Locus.
There are also all the usual goodies, news, reviews (Sofia Samatar! John Kessel! Kelly Robson! Aliette de Bodard! Kelly Barnhill! and many more), commentary by Cory Doctorow, and more.
Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin
Tags: Kickstarter, Ursula K. Le GuinHope you will consider backing this if you can!
Travel Light on sale
Tags: Desirina Boskovich, Lightspeed, Naomi Mitchison, Small Beer Press, Ursula K. Le Guin, Zhao HaihongCelebrating the lovely NPR write-up by Amal El-Mohtar, Naomi Mitchison’s Travel Light is on sale for 50% off this week: now only $2.99!
Also of note among all the new magazines that went out somewhat late on January 1st (as expected and no one seemed to mind!): the new ish of Lightspeed has reprints Zhao Haihong’s LCRW story “Exuviation”—which the author translated herself. Plus, they are reprinting Ursula K. Le Guin’s recent Tin House story “Elementals.” Ok, but wait, there’s more! There are interviews with Hyperbole and a Half’s Allie Brosh(!) and Scott Lynch as well as a reprint of M. Rickert’s “The Chambered Fruit” and novel excerpts from Dru Pagliassotti, Chuck Wendig, and my Western Mass. neighbor James L. Cambias (his novel is getting great pre-pub reviews).
Another big seller is It Came From the North: An Anthology of Finnish Speculative Fiction edited by Desirina Boskovich. Who could resist 15 Finnish short stories??
In other news, Happy New Year! At some point I’m going to post the December 2013 bestseller list as well as the 2013 list and the first and last ebook sales for 2012 (here’s First and last for 2012). This week was busy with paperwork (er, not much paper yet): Massachusetts sales tax (paid! thank you Massachusetts readers!); 1099 prep (takes a while), and fourth quarter Weightless royalties—should be paid on Monday or Tuesday. Love sending out monies big and small! Thank you all readers! We had a great year and it was awesome to see how many ebook gifts were sent over the holidays.
Happy weekend and if you’re getting the same seasonal stormy weather as me, here’s our always always applicable storm list from last year.
Discover; ghosts
Tags: Sarah Smith, Shakespeare, Ursula K. Le GuinTwo fun things on the internet: Ursula K. Le Guin writes about book discovery at Book View Cafe and even throws in an old joke in the comments. I love this site (and I’m on Goodreads—goofy picture and all—and love it) but I also love wandering actual bookshops because I find books outside my usual zones. (I’ve pasted Le Guin’s schedule in from her calendar in case you’re in—or going to—the Pacific Northwest and can go see her, she’s fabulous.)
Elsewhere, the ghost of Wm. Shakespeare is haunting publishing with yet another title (“AKA Shakespeare: A Scientific Approach to the Authorship Question“) on the “authorship” question. Not at all unconnected, check out Sarah Smith’s A New Shakespeare Poem here for only 99c.
Nice review of The Unreal and the Real in Locus
Tags: Locus, Ursula K. Le GuinGary K. Wolfe reviews Ursula K. Le Guin‘s The Unreal and the Real in the latest issue of Locus: “After a while, though, the experience of reading any retrospective as excellent as the Selected Stories reduces you, if not to bab- bling, to just delighting in some of your favorites.”
Reader reviews are always welcome.
We’re going to post a quick picks for the holidays so we’d love to hear from you about what books you’re reading and enjoying and which you recommend (maybe not always the same thing?).
I’ve been slowwwly reading Andrea Hairston’s Redwood and Wildfire. I fear it is coming to an end and then what will I do?
PM Press sale: 33% off until Nov. 20
Tags: Michael Moorcock, Nalo Hopkinson, PM Press, Terry Bisson, Ursula K. Le Guin
I am not entirely sure how Michael makes the magic happen behind the scenes on Weightless but if you like me wondered just how this 33% coupon works, apparently all you need to do is add any PM Press book to your cart and, boom! It’s done.
That $8.95 copy of Nick Mamatas’s Sensation is suddenly $5.97. You add Ursula Le Guin’s The Wild Girls (because you’ve heard the interview is amazing) and suddenly you’ve saved $5.97. Ok, you realize the discount is basically 3-for-2, so the last book is sort of free. Maybe Byzantium Endures: The First Volume of the Colonel Pyat Quartet by Michael Moorcock, or Terry Bisson’s Left Left Behind?
Wait! What’s that book by Nalo Hopkinson? Report from Planet Midnight. Is it a PM book? Yes! Awesome. Or maybe your brain is more organized than mine and you already have your eye on some of their books. Either way, for a week or three, all of their books are automagically 33% off!