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Oh God More Award Nominees....!
Mar. 10th, 2015 05:20 pmI've started following Locus Magazine on Twitter, so I can keep up with the award news as it rolls in. So now I have even more books to add:
According to Locus, "there are several titles of genre interest on the 2015 Baileys Women’s Prize long list":
Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel (Picado)
The Country of Ice Cream Star, Sandra Newman (Chatto & Windus)
The Bees, Laline Paull (Fourth Estate)
The Table of Less Valued Knights, Marie Phillips (Jonathan Cape)
This is good news, because Shawn has been bugging me to add Station Eleven to my reading list because she thinks it would make an interesting compare and contrast to "actual" SF (as opposed to what mundanes THINK SF is.) Now I have an excuse. Honestly, I've never heard of the Baileys Women's Prize before, but apparently it comes with a cash prize.
In other news, I started working on a novella today. A friend of mine has been organizing a group of people to write a paranormal project together and listening to them talk about it has made me realize that if I have the energy to do something like that, I should really try seeing if I can write a few Tate one-offs as well.
I'm pleased to report I have about 2,000 words of a new Garnet Lacey novella. One that I intend to self-publish on Amazon. Fingers crossed that I can keep this project going.
Unjust Cause, speaking of other Tate projects, is currently languishing. I'm planning to, at some point this week, pull down copies of all my entries to-date to see if I can wrestle them into something resembling an actual novel. Then I need to read it and figure out where the heck it's going. So I can finish it.
That was an experiment that seems to have floundered. I still think it was important to do, and may very well be salvageable, but... yeah.
Still, it got me started writing on a new original project. Not all is lost! And I'm sure I can fix up what I do have.
At any rate, that's me. I'm also about 124 pages into THE THREE BODY PROBLEM and... well, things are finally starting to interest me. The book starts in a time and place I don't know very much about: The Chinese Cultural Revolution. I mean, I know some basics, and the stuff we see here is very dark. But, the narrative skips forward a bunch and I think we're finally in a thread that I can sink my teeth into. We'll see.
According to Locus, "there are several titles of genre interest on the 2015 Baileys Women’s Prize long list":
Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel (Picado)
The Country of Ice Cream Star, Sandra Newman (Chatto & Windus)
The Bees, Laline Paull (Fourth Estate)
The Table of Less Valued Knights, Marie Phillips (Jonathan Cape)
This is good news, because Shawn has been bugging me to add Station Eleven to my reading list because she thinks it would make an interesting compare and contrast to "actual" SF (as opposed to what mundanes THINK SF is.) Now I have an excuse. Honestly, I've never heard of the Baileys Women's Prize before, but apparently it comes with a cash prize.
In other news, I started working on a novella today. A friend of mine has been organizing a group of people to write a paranormal project together and listening to them talk about it has made me realize that if I have the energy to do something like that, I should really try seeing if I can write a few Tate one-offs as well.
I'm pleased to report I have about 2,000 words of a new Garnet Lacey novella. One that I intend to self-publish on Amazon. Fingers crossed that I can keep this project going.
Unjust Cause, speaking of other Tate projects, is currently languishing. I'm planning to, at some point this week, pull down copies of all my entries to-date to see if I can wrestle them into something resembling an actual novel. Then I need to read it and figure out where the heck it's going. So I can finish it.
That was an experiment that seems to have floundered. I still think it was important to do, and may very well be salvageable, but... yeah.
Still, it got me started writing on a new original project. Not all is lost! And I'm sure I can fix up what I do have.
At any rate, that's me. I'm also about 124 pages into THE THREE BODY PROBLEM and... well, things are finally starting to interest me. The book starts in a time and place I don't know very much about: The Chinese Cultural Revolution. I mean, I know some basics, and the stuff we see here is very dark. But, the narrative skips forward a bunch and I think we're finally in a thread that I can sink my teeth into. We'll see.
