Website Updated! Newsletter Going Out! Copies of the Trade Paperback Edition of SILVER ON THE ROAD (with a sample chapter of THE COLD EYE in back) in my Grubby Writer Paws! I’m feeling all writer-y ‘n shit right now. Almost like a book’s about to hit the shelves….
Weekend Productivity! And Updates! Read More »
PSA: with the trade paperback of SILVER ON THE ROAD landing in eleven (11!) days – which means stores will probably have it out next week – I’m re-opening the bookplate vault.  If you’d like a personalized bookplate for SILVER, drop me an email at lag-at-lauraannegilman.-dot-net with your preferred use-name, and a mailing address. I
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I’m the kind of sick where you don’t feel all that bad, but you know if you push it your body will slam back and lay you out for a week, so you take it easy.  Where by ‘easy’ I mean I’m drinking soup and taking naps and spending the rest of the time at
I got an email from my agent (before coffee!), with a link to PW’s review of THE COLD EYE. This is a very important milestone in the life of a new book – did they like it? Did they hate it? Did I just waste a year of my life on something that should never
The first review for THE COLD EYE is in…. Read More »
I no longer post my thoughts about 9/11 – I though I’d said everything I needed to say. But this year, I was invited to take part in #HoldOntoTheLight. And I realized that I did, in fact, have something new – and important – to say. For as long as I’ve known of the phrase,
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Asimov’s (yes, Asimov’s) reviews SILVER ON THE ROAD! “Gilman, who’s had success with urban fantasy and her ambitious “Vineart War†trilogy, begins a new series, “The Devil’s West†with this novel, a solid entry in the currently hot category of Weird West fiction. Gilman serves up a set of challenges worthy of the premise…..[she] has
Just in time for the paperback edition… Read More »
The to-list today only has 4 items! But each one’s probably going to take 3-4 hours to finish. The math…does not look good for me today. I am therefore removing social media from the equation until at least one thing is done… Try not to set anything on fire while I’m gone? And remember to
Friday’s got a weight on its back and a destination in mind… Read More »
http://binwallaradio.com/silver-on-the-road-book-review/ “[SILVER ON THE ROAD] has the rare ability to suck readers into a new world from the first chapter. Gilman lures the reader in with what appears to be a familiar setting, but surprises the reader with a bold reimagining of the Western myth and the Devil….The internal mythos of the Territory is a
What was that I was saying about new reviews a year later? Read More »
Particularly, things that say of SILVER ON THE ROAD, “this book is SPECTACULAR.” BoookRiot discusses “10 Great Books that Feature the Devil.” Oh, and this, too! Obsidian Wings’ Summer Roundup The idea that people are still finding the book a year after it was originally published gives my withered and battered soul hope, it does.
I love it when readers point me at things… Read More »
I wasn’t going to wade into the current WFC bruhaha (as opposed to past WFC bruhahas), because honestly this will probably continue until those who venerate Lovecraft et al over all other influences are dead, or at least out of the active field. But look: if your idea of a celebration of world fantasy relies
It’s not even a rant, it’s exasperation from the grown-up seats. Read More »