Okay, this is VERY IMPORTANT.  I have just learned that Daily SF March Madness starts on Friday (tomorrow). My story, “Mad Cats and Englishmen” is in the first round! This is utterly meaningless and carries nothing more than temporary bragging rights, and yet if I fail horribly in the first round, I will be crushed, crushed, I […]
Calling in all the Meerkat Minions! Read More »
Some good news to start the week: I am informed that Audible has taken all four of the PSI novels (HARD MAGIC, PACK OF LIES, TRICKS OF THE TRADE, and DRAGON JUSTICE) for audio book. I don’t know when who or how yet – updates as I have ’em, if I get ’em (nobody tells
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Yeah, it’s sort of been “all mystery all the time” here, and that will probably continue for another month or so. But there will be stuff on the fantasy front soon too, I promise! —————– So, everyone loves it when a reviewer – a professional critic – likes their book. But honestly, the thing that
Delighted Author Dance: “an underlying strength that elevates it…” Read More »
The Library Journal reviewer was not entirely pleased by my not tying up every single thread at the end (this is me, guys, I don’t make everything 100% tidy, nope) but overall she seemed to like COLLARED…. “VERDICT The plot moves quickly, enhanced by smart dialog and good characterizations… a fairly strong beginning to what
And another country is heard from, for Ms. Kornetsky’s COLLARED… Read More »
Working, working, working. Slightly manic, in fact, but that’s more yay than uh-oh. Unfortunately, one of the prime indicators that I’m in a massive manic word-creating mode is that I have an utter disinclination – nay, an actual aversion – to doing any kind of meal-prep. Which, since I abhor most prepackaged frozen dinner things,
and that was Friday. The 13th, even. Read More »
Tricks of the Trade is featured on Beyond Her Book today! (with a mention of Dragon Justice). Among other nice things, they call the world of PSI “a fascinating place to visit, mysterious, suspenseful, exciting.” Nope, I had no idea this was coming… but it’s always always nice to see an older book (2011)
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The ToC has been released, so I can squeak in public: My story “Crossroads” (originally published in Fantasy Magazine) has been selected for Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2012, edited by Paula Guran (Prime Books). *squeak!*
Sometimes, you get told you done good. Read More »
Specifically, I am now allowed – ahead of the official announcement but that’s what you get when you let things loose on the internet – that PACK OF LIES (PSI #2) is a Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award nominee for Best Urban Fantasy! Let loose the w00ts! the fact that I’m competing against friends,
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from JM Cornwell at Red Room, a review of THE SHATTERED VINE… Gilman has ended the trilogy with a subtle power that leaves questions about the nature of religion and magic and the truth of Zatim Sin Washer and what really happened to create the Lands Vin and the legacy that comes full circle
letting out a happy author-squeak…. Read More »
Currently in the Specific Northwest doing research for a new project, but mine publicist has sent along the following Nice Things: RT Reviews gave THE SHATTERED VINE 4.5 stars and Top Pick! “The final volume of Gilman’s Vineart War trilogy is both compulsively readable and full of complicated characterization…the story builds to a climax, which
And the reviews start to come in… Read More »