Daily Archives: September 1, 2009
The God Engines ARC Contest
Posted on September 1, 2009 15 Comments
Publishers Weekly is rebooting its blog for the speculative fiction genres, entitled (logically enough) Genreville, and to celebrate, they’ve got a contest to give away an ARC of The God Engines, which the folks there (PW editor Rose Fox and frequent Whatever commenter Josh Jasper) have called “a vicious little novella… not like any Scalzi […]
The Big Idea: Malinda Lo
Posted on September 1, 2009 129 Comments
Here’s a thought: What if the big idea about a book isn’t something in particular — it’s about the absence of something in particular? Does that count? And what does it do to the story you’re telling? The question is relevant to Malinda Lo, whose debut novel Ash is a retelling of the Cinderella story […]
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