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Blog!
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Check out Nancy's new blog!
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Short Stories
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Nancy's most recent short stories have been "The Rules" (Asimov's,
December '07), "Laws of Survival" (Jim Baen's Universe, December
'07), and "Sex and Violence" (Asimov's, February '08).
Four stories of Nancy's were chosen for
Best of the Year volumes -- and they are four different stories, which
somewhat bemused her. Gardner Dozois chose "Laws of Survival." Rich
Horton picked "Art of War" (The New Space Opera, ed. Strahan and
Dozois). Jonathan Strahan tapped "By Fools Like Me" (Asimov's,
September '07) and David Hartwell chose "End Game" (Asimov's,
April/May '07).
Nancy also has two Asimov's
stories on the Nebula preliminary ballot: "Fountain of Age" and
"Safeguard."
Forthcoming in 2008, sometime or
other, are "Call Back Yesterday" (Asimov's) and "First Rites" (Jim
Baen's Universe).
Nancy spent a lot of time in the last few years
writing short fiction! She is also now a monthly columnist for
Science Fiction World magazine, published in Chengdu, China. Her
column concerns aspects of writing SF.
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Personal Appearances
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2008 will be a
year full of traveling. April 19-20 Nancy will attend Eericon 10, in
Niagara Falls, NY.
A few days later she will fly to Austin, TX for the
Nebulas.
May 18-20 she conducts a workshop and does a
reading in Seattle, both for Leslie Howle's New Media Arts.
July 6-12 she is writer-in-residence for
Odyssey, in NH.
August brings Denvention, the Denver Worldcon.
Most interesting of all, Nancy has accepted the
Picador Guest Lectureship at the University of Leipzig in Germany. She
will be there from mid-October 2008 to mid-January 2009, teaching both
SF and creative writing. Fortunately, she will be allowed to lecture in
English.
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Book News
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In 2007 and 2008, Nancy will have three new books out! Her
short-story collection, as yet untitled, will be published by Golden
Gryphon Press. It will include 140,000 words of fiction, including the
Nebula-nominated "My Mother, Dancing" and several stories that appeared
in various best-of-the-year anthologies. Tor will release a new SF
novel, STEAL ACROSS THE SKY. Aliens land on the moon and announce that
10,000 years ago, they committed a terrible crime against humanity. But
they will not tell us what it is -- because they want to show us
instead. An SF thriller, DOGS, will appear from Tachyon Press. A
strange plague has appeared in a small Maryland town. Like avian flu,
it's spread by animals: pet dogs, which the government wants to round up
and destroy -- even if not all of these pets seem infected yet. Which
suggests, of course, that more is going on than meets the eye. |
