While I’m sad that RED WATERS RISING didn’t make the final ballot for fantasy novel, my joy in TUBS, as we affectionately call it, making the final ballot for “best anthology” Locus Award has me doing a happy writer chair-dance. This wasn’t a traditional anthology – our editors didn’t ‘acquire’ us, no publisher made any […]
THE UNDERWATER BALLROOM SOCIETY is a Locus Award nominee! Read More »
B&N names RED WATERS RISING a Bookseller Pick for June, and says, “Gilman closes out her weird western fable in fine style, with another strongly character-focused story in a setting that would almost be familiar, if it weren’t so fantastically strange.” Find it June 26th in hardcover, trade paperback or ebook at the following
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So. This happened. :-) Congrats to my fellow finalists! 2016 Endeavour Award Finalists and Judges July 5, 2016FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For additional information contact: James W. Fiscus, Chairman Phone: 503-239-7641 E-Mail: EndeavourAward@sff.net    Web: www.osfci.org/endeavour Portland – Five novels written by writers from the Pacific Northwest are finalists for the 18th annual Endeavour Award.Â
A very fine Endeavour, indeed…. Read More »
from the January 2016 issue of Locus Magazine.
I’m just going to leave this here… Read More »
Professional reviews are lovely. Reader reviews make my heart grow two or three sizes. But peer reviews give me the shiver of craft-recognized on a while different level – because most writers, willingly or not, become jaded readers. So if you can wow them, that’s a job very well done. ——————- Originally posted by difrancis
PEER REVIEW: All the Ways I Love This Book: Silver on the Road Read More »
And also ’cause I just like looking at it: So now you REALLY want to pre-order it, right? Book 1:  SILVER ON THE ROAD – 6 October 2015 Available for pre-order now at the following fine book-shilling establishments…. Simon & Schuster / B&N / Kobo / Mysterious Galaxy / Powells / Indigo/Chapters / Indiebound /Book Depository / Amazon / iBooks / Books-A-Million / GooglePlay
for those who prefer the visual impact of a tearsheet… Read More »
When you discover that your name has been invoked as “I like her book better than the one I’m reviewing.” Because yes there’s “YAY! Reader-love!” but there’s also “oh god, I’ve been on the other side of that and it SUCKS.” So I’ll say that I’m glad the reviewer likes my books, and I’m glad
That weird feeling… Read More »
In the usual launch-day searching of Google for any mention of my name, I came across this review of DRAGON VIRUS, from 2011.  How did I miss this, back then? One part Planet of the Apes and one part X-men, Laura Anne Gilman’s Dragon Virus is exciting but bleak, a provocative view of a future built on genetic engineering. In
A (very late-discovered) review for DRAGON VIRUS….. Read More »
from Publishers Weekly…. Fans and skeptics of the occult will be seduced and enthralled by Gilman’s metaphysical thriller about wicked elves, shape-shifting supernaturals and portals to another dimension. A fable of good versus evil, Gilman’s inspired fantasy is poised between two worlds: Human, whose denizens are unaware they are being invaded; and Preternatural, whose elf
oh. hi there, shiny little surprise review…. Read More »
Send them an email like this: Your endings, why they always please me. You don’t wrap everything in a neat package. You leave things for the reader to think about and work at, you let the reader be involved. Thats what I loved about the end of Vineart…..As a reader I hate packaged endings- nothing
If you ever want to make a writer go all verklempt… Read More »