Author: Marion Deeds

Books and Writing:

Here are seven author-owned bookstores. This article is about an early woman-owned bookstore in New York. The place must have been wonderfully bohemian.

The Last Dangerous Visions anthology will open to submissions for ONE DAY ONLY on April 30, 2021.Please note they are accepting ONE story. Here is some submission info. The post includes a “release form,” which I’ve never seen before. I didn’t real the whole thing—the first part simply seems to be the author affirming that it’s original work.

Ingenuity:

On Monday, April 19, 2021, the Mars helicopter Ingenuity conducted a 39 second test flight, while Perseverance filmed it.

Here’s an article from NASA with detail about the helicopter.

Writers, Reading, Writing, Books:

Tor.com announced Comeuppance Served Cold an upcoming Jazz Era fantasy, written by me! It will be available in spring, 2022.

More about the Tor family of imprints: Devi Pillai has been promoted to President and Publisher of Tom Doherty Associates.

Books and Writing:

It looks like a good Hugo year. File 770 shares where to find works at no cost.

This very long article ranks portrayals of Sherlock Holmes, (after a lengthy description of the criteria and the screening out of various people.) Enjoy.

Speaking of Holmes (kinda) File 770 was one of the stops on the Adler blog tour. Adler is a graphic novel collaboration between Lavie Tidhar and Paul McCaffery, featuring Holmes’s female adversary Irene Adler.

Jeanette Ng wants a more thoughtful and expansive approach to critique of problematic literary works.

Writers, Writing, Reading, Books:

Some people don’t know how to daydream? Nancy Jane Moore shares an essay on this valuable gift.

Serial Box has a new name and an expanded mission; it’s now Realm, and it includes podcasts.

The Booknest Fantasy Award winners were announced last week.

Vulture profiles Helen Oyeyemi.

Larry Correia announces some new projects on his blog.

Five works that put bards at the center of the action.

At least it’s not April Fool’s Day.

(Actually, I came closer than I thought, since I nearly grabbed the file for last week’s column in error!)

Writers, Readers, Books:

Larry McMurtry and Beverly Cleary passed away last week. Both leave huge legacies.

Silvia Moreno Garcia and Lavie Tidhar share some Indian SFF novelists you might not know.

The Master of the Revels is the sequel to The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O, a book I did not know existed.

Writers, Writing, Reading, Books:

Nineteenth century SF writers imagined global warming, and this article take a look at a few examples.

File770 provides a tally of the Hugo nominating votes and it’s a small number indeed. This is worrisome because in 2015, this allowed a special interest group to control the nominations. On the other hand, we’ve had other things on our minds this year that nominating for awards. We’ll have to see what happens.  The good news is, while 2020 was a terrible year, it was a year many great books came out.