Are you a Kindle user? Have you been hesitating pulling the lever on a Kindle copy of SILVER ON THE ROAD because ow, $12.99? Or maybe know someone who is a Kindle user who’d love the book, but they didn’t have $12.99 to spend on it? Or maybe you wanted to buy it as a […]
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Excuse me while I hit some of the review highlights for SILVER ON THE ROAD…. “In this delightful start to The Devil’s West series… Gilman skillfully plays with western folklore and history, infusing them with ambiguity and subtle strangeness to deliver a memorable adventure out on the untamed frontier. Refreshingly, her vision of the American
Bull Spec sez: [SILVER ON THE ROAD is] a Weird West story with a teenage girl employed by the devil as the main character? The concept was so intriguing that Your Humble Reviewers had to read it. And so they did. And they liked what they read! The scenery descriptions are wonderful and the details of
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Got my first 2-star review on Amazon for SILVER ON THE ROAD! Mostly, it seems, for using “they” as a gender-neutral pronoun. “The author created engaging characters and a story that kept my interest. But… the worst, and most frequent, glitch was the use of “they” as a gender-neutral singular pronoun. “They” is always plural
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After the whirlwind of San Diego and San Francisco, where it was Too Warm but I got to see all sorts of friends new and old, and sign a lot of books, there was the whirlwind of New Hampshire and Another Anime Convention. Which was awesome in all sorts of ways I didn’t expect, and
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The gig at Mysterious Galaxy was great fun, and getting to know my co-conspirator Cat Winters was also fun. We left the place standing, if listing slightly, and with a few signed copies for anyone who couldn’t make the reading. But the day was kind of thrown akilter (in a good way) by the news
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I’m off to the airport, heading down to California (San Diego and San Francisco) and I hope to see some of y’all there (at Mysterious Galaxy and SF-in-SF @ Borderlands Books, respectively). For those hanging out online… TODAY: The “Big Idea” behind SILVER ON THE ROAD, admitting where (and why) SILVER almost didn’t get written…. In
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Where I am right now is at my desk, trying to convince myself that yes really I DO have to tackle the List of Pending Things That Are Not New-Book-Related. More coffee may be required. But TONIGHT! I will be at the University Bookstore in Seattle, reading and signing and generally talking about SILVER ON
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What’s that? There’s something happening today I’m supposed to be paying attention to? *drinks coffee* Ooooo, riiiight! Today, SILVER ON THE ROAD is officially on shelves (and in your digital reader). And I’m not gonna lie – the reviews have been amazing so far. “Gilman skillfully plays with western folklore and history, infusing them with
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via Barrnesandnoble.com‘s review of SILVER ON THE ROAD “With all due respect to Steve Earle, the devil’s right hand is a largely overrated appendage. In Laura Anne Gilman’s stark, sparkling Silver on the Road, the star of the show is the devil’s nimble, freshly minted left hand: Isobel, not a day over 16, reared alongside saloon girls
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