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October 2023
Two anthologies and a WFC peopling hangover walk into a bar...
Hey everybody! I am not yet home from World Fantasy Convention and afterwards visiting family, so this will be brief as I am on the questionable hotel…
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Elizabeth Bear
The worst habits you learn in writing workshops and how to unlearn them
Scott and I just got home from teaching the Viable Paradise writer’s workshop, and boy am I tired. (I have a covid test cooking right now, as has become…
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Elizabeth Bear
Quiet on the northwestern front...
Hey folks, I’m just about to head off to teach Viable Paradise tomorrow, and things have been busy around here with preparations to travel for most of…
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September 2023
Audiobook sale!
The audiobook of An Apprentice to Elves is on sale for 60% off! (An Apprentice to Elves is the third book in the Iskryne series, after A Companion to…
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Elizabeth Bear
When you are afraid to jinx it, but for the first time in a long time, the writing is going really well.
For years, I’ve been struggling with brain fog, exhaustion, health challenges, and just being kind of burned out, honestly. I’d forgotten what it was…
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Heads up about a very cool Ukrainian SFF Anthology!
“Embroidered Worlds presents a living snapshot of imaginative fiction in Ukrainian culture today, including stories that span and cross the speculative…
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Elizabeth Bear
A poem for autumn
Grief Hard wings at the heart beat to beat to beat within: a buffet of feathers a buffet of flesh— the buffet of fire, of a rising wind. A cold wind…
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August 2023
Happy cancerversary to me?
Hey, folks, So it’s two years ago today that I got my breast cancer diagnosis and began the scary and painful course of treatment that has, for now…
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Elizabeth Bear
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On the edge of autumn
Greetings, fellow humans, I hope this missive finds you well and alive, or at least hanging in there. It’s the season of harvests, but I find myself in…
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Horror anthologies discounted deeply! One day only!
The fabulous Ellen Datlow-edited anthologies SUPERNATURAL NOIR and LOVECRAFT UNBOUND are on sale in ebook for a mere $1.99 each! Get them at the links…
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