BlogBloghttp://www.pamelasargent.com/blog/2013-04-22T17:47:32ZSquarespaceAnother Interviewhttp://www.pamelasargent.com/blog/2013/4/22/another-interview.htmlPamela Sargent2013-04-22T17:40:44Z2013-04-22T17:40:44ZA new interview with me is now out in a book of interviews conducted by Jennifer Thorpe-Moscon, How Geek Girls Will Rule the World, and it's available here. Other writers interviewed are Esther Friesner, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Anne Rice, and Lisa Tuttle. The book can also be purchased in paperback and as an e-book at Amazon.

]]>No News...http://www.pamelasargent.com/blog/2013/4/3/no-news.htmlPamela Sargent2013-04-03T22:14:37Z2013-04-03T22:14:37Z...and I haven't abandoned this blog. After filing my taxes, I'll be back when there's something to report or post about. In the meantime, if anyone is interested in signed and inscribed mint copies of first editions of my books in hardcover or paperback, please let me know, and here's how to do so: just scroll down for info.

]]>An Upcoming Appearancehttp://www.pamelasargent.com/blog/2013/3/9/an-upcoming-appearance.htmlPamela Sargent2013-03-09T16:10:33Z2013-03-09T16:10:33ZI will be speaking at the Mamaroneck Public Library in Mamaroneck, New York on March on Sunday, March 24th, at 2:00 PM. For more information, contact the library's Teen Room at (914) 630-5875 or Linda Bhandari at (914) 630-5890. The library's site is here and information about its programs, including this appearance, is here.

]]>"Hillary Orbits Venus" Now Available for E-Readershttp://www.pamelasargent.com/blog/2013/2/28/hillary-orbits-venus-now-available-for-e-readers.htmlPamela Sargent2013-02-28T16:11:04Z2013-02-28T16:11:04ZAs a girl, Hillary Rodham Clinton wrote to NASA asking how to become an astronaut, only to receive a reply saying that NASA wasn’t accepting women as astronauts. This was the tale that inspired my 1999 alternate history story “Hillary Orbits Venus,” which is now available in e-form in Wildside Press’s Sixth Science Fiction Megapack, which also includes stories by Nancy Kress, Philip K. Dick, Arthur C. Clarke, Samuel R. Delany, George Zebrowski, and more. And it’s a bargain at the price.

]]>An Auction for a Worthy Causehttp://www.pamelasargent.com/blog/2013/2/14/an-auction-for-a-worthy-cause.htmlPamela Sargent2013-02-14T22:57:24Z2013-02-14T22:57:24ZIn an effort to increase diversity in the sf community, Con or Bust helps people of color attend SFF conventions and is administered by Kate Nepveu under the umbrella of the Carl Brandon Society, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. Tor has donated copies of my novels Earthseed and Farseed to an auction to raise funds for Con or Bust, and you can bid on the books here. Bidding is now open and closes Sunday, February 24, 2013 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time. 

]]>An Alternative Westernhttp://www.pamelasargent.com/blog/2013/2/11/an-alternative-western.htmlPamela Sargent2013-02-11T19:31:57Z2013-02-11T19:31:57ZMy novel Climb the Wind, a finalist for the 1998 Sidewise Award for Alternate History and with a cast of characters that includes Buffalo Bill Cody, Calamity Jane, Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, Frederick Douglass, Crazy Horse, Annie Oakley, and a number of other historical and fictional people, is now available as an audio book from Audible.com.

]]>The Shore of Womenhttp://www.pamelasargent.com/blog/2013/2/6/the-shore-of-women.htmlPamela Sargent2013-02-06T18:58:53Z2013-02-06T18:58:53ZMy 1986 novel The Shore of Women is now available in unabridged audio form from Audible.com. 

]]>Rebranding Genre Fiction as Young Adult Fictionhttp://www.pamelasargent.com/blog/2013/1/30/rebranding-genre-fiction-as-young-adult-fiction.htmlPamela Sargent2013-01-30T16:03:29Z2013-01-30T16:03:29ZThe question this week at SF Signal's Mind Meld is: What genre novels would benefit from a re-branding as Young Adult? Which YA novels should not be branded as such? My answer is the last, which means you get to read some fascinating and provocative responses from Gail Carriger, E.C. Myers, R.T. Kaelin, Alethea Kontis, and others as you scroll down to what I have to say.

]]>A Review and an Interviewhttp://www.pamelasargent.com/blog/2013/1/24/a-review-and-an-interview.htmlPamela Sargent2013-01-24T16:19:53Z2013-01-24T16:19:53ZJules Sherred, a contributor to Wired's GeekMom blog, interviewed me last week for her Geeky Pleasures radio program; that interview can be heard here. Her review of Farseed is here.

Among the subjects discussed during my hour-and-a-half long interview with Jules: The evolution of YA, “adult themes” and how parenting has changed; the influence of social media on our perceptions of the world; becoming a fan of sci-fi, the subculture around it, and the evolution of the community thanks to the Internet; differences between science-fiction and fantasy; writing licensed Star Trek novels, and much more.

]]>Farseed Is Outhttp://www.pamelasargent.com/blog/2013/1/8/farseed-is-out.htmlPamela Sargent2013-01-08T21:00:22Z2013-01-08T21:00:22ZPublication day for the Tor trade paperback of Farseed is today.

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