A Review I Missed Earlier

A review of Earthseed was posted this spring at The Hub, the Web site of the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a branch of the American Library Association, and you can read it here. I'll be at YALSA's Young Adult Literature Symposium in St. Louis on November 2-4, 2012.

Advice for Would-Be Writers

Some advice, for what it's worth, quoted from a recent speech of mine: "...just about everything I once knew about how to conduct a career as a professional writer has fallen by the wayside (I’m thinking of such pieces of advice as “always make sure you keep a carbon copy” and “don’t write without getting paid” – an online presence pretty much requires a lot of writing for free).  About the only advice I give any aspiring writers now that has stood the test of time is “read as much and as widely as possible” and “make writing something every day a habit.”

Another Review of Earthseed...

...filled with enough praise to make me blush, is here, written by Evie of Bookish.

A List, and Another Interview

My 1986 novel The Shore of Women, soon to be available again in both print-on-demand and electronic editions at E-Reads (check my other books available through E-Reads here), was listed in Damien Broderick and Paul Di Filippo's Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels 1985-2010. There's also an interview with me up at the Starmetal Oak site, here.

The SFRA Conference

 I had a wonderful time at the SFRA conference, learned something from the presentations, and was moved by the presentation of my Pilgrim Award. Marleen Barr presented the award to me via iPhone, since she was unable to be there in person, and her introduction was so witty I worried that I might not be able to top it with my own speech. I also saw some of Detroit, a more beautiful city in many ways than I expected, and went to readings by three writers who were special guests of the conference - Saladin Ahmed, Sarah Zettel, and Minister Faust. Some writers give readings that would work very well as sleep aids, but not these three, who performed their excerpts instead of simply "reading" them and made me want to read more of their work.