And lo, another WorldCon is in the books. This was an odd one, as I didn’t see many of the folk I normally would have expected to, but did get to hang with some old friends, make some new friends, make a few business contacts, and actually get outside of the convention center to see […]
Home again home again, at least for a little bit… Read More »
2018 Endeavour Award Finalists and Judges July 12, 2018 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Portland – Five novels written by writers from the Pacific Northwest are finalists for the 20th annual Endeavour Award. The Award comes with an honorarium of $1,000.00 and will be announced November 9, 2018, at OryCon, Oregon’s primary science fiction convention. The finalists
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from the NPRbooks review of RED WATERS RISING: “Gilman is magic in that junction point between the real and the imaginary, and she’s remarkable in allowing her world to grow solely out of the observations of her main character. Isobel is not just the reader surrogate, but a rounded, living, breathing, aching, regretting, exhausted, terrified,
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Publishers Weekly weighs in on RED WATERS RISING: “In the fascinating third Devil’s West novel…. Gilman successfully renders a magic-riddled, mysterious, even ambiguous weird West where spirits drop in and out of conversation and danger lurks around every bend in the road. Part coming-of-age story, part adventure, Isobel and Gabriel’s journeys don’t always offer neat
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Waking up to the news that THE COLD EYE is on NPR’s “Great Reads of 2017†list (alerted by both editor Joe Monti and all of Twitter!) is a pretty good way to get a Tuesday started….. (374 books, out of everything published in 2017. And such excellent company I’m keeping, on that list!)
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from the Library Journal review, on stands today: Gilman, Laura Anne. The Cold Eye. Saga. (Devil’s West, Bk. 2). Jan. 2017. 352p. FANTASY As the Devil’s Left Hand, Isobel serves as his eyes and ears across the land. Wandering the western edges of his territory, she is called to a place where everything has gone
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I got an email from my agent (before coffee!), with a link to PW’s review of THE COLD EYE. This is a very important milestone in the life of a new book – did they like it? Did they hate it? Did I just waste a year of my life on something that should never
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http://binwallaradio.com/silver-on-the-road-book-review/ “[SILVER ON THE ROAD] has the rare ability to suck readers into a new world from the first chapter. Gilman lures the reader in with what appears to be a familiar setting, but surprises the reader with a bold reimagining of the Western myth and the Devil….The internal mythos of the Territory is a
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Particularly, things that say of SILVER ON THE ROAD, “this book is SPECTACULAR.” BoookRiot discusses “10 Great Books that Feature the Devil.” Oh, and this, too! Obsidian Wings’ Summer Roundup The idea that people are still finding the book a year after it was originally published gives my withered and battered soul hope, it does.
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Awwww, someone just posted a review of THE SHATTERED VINE! I love it when backlist gets love…. And especially when the reader gets what I was doing. “[the scene] is indicative of how Gilman subverts expectations, favoring philosophical debates over big action sequences, and even dispatching one major battle completely off the page. The result