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11:38 am
[Link] |  My latest book, Cloud Permutations, is now out! Cloud Permutations is a 35,000 word novella, published in limited hardcover edition, and a signed, dustjacketed hardcover edition, by PS Publishing in the UK. Blurb: The world of Heven was populated, centuries ago, by Melanesian settlers from distant Earth. It is a peaceful, quiet world - yet it harbours ancient secrets.
Kai just wants to fly. But flying is the one thing forbidden on Heven - a world dominated by the mysterious, ever present clouds in the skies. What do they hide? For Kai, finding the answer might mean his death - but how far will you go to realise your dreams?
Set against the breathtaking vista of a world filled with mystery and magic, Cloud Permutations is a planetary romance with a unique South Pacific flavour, filled with mythic monsters, ancient alien artefacts, floating islands and a quest to find a legendary tower... whatever the cost.
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03:52 pm
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Moving to Wordpress
At long last, I got my new website/blog set up and ready. My new home on the web is now at http://lavietidhar.wordpress.com.
See you there!
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11:16 am
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New story up
Just realised that my story "Jews in Antarctica" has been up since Monday at Fantasy Magazine!
And I also have an editorial up at the World SF News Blog.
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04:35 pm
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Yay!
Sold novelette "Funny Pages" to Interzone!
Being in Interzone is pretty awesome, and it means I have 2 stories forthcoming there now!
I have to admit "Funny Pages", being a sort-of-political, Israeli-set, comiksy, novelette-length story with superheroes, did kind of worry me (as in, would anyone publish it?)
Well, the answer is yes!
Meanwhile work continues on the new, improved Book Two for Angry Robot (more explosions! more escapes! more sadistic automatons!), as well as on the World SF News Blog. We've had such a positive response and a lot of talented, awesome people are going to be contributing in the coming months. Spread the word! This week's original feature: Part Two of our round-table discussion on the influence of background and the environment, with Lauren Beukes, Lynne Jamneck, Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, and Shweta Narayan.
Current Mood:  happy
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04:38 pm
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Mind-mush!
Spent the last four days messing around with web 2.0 thingies - porting the World SF News Blog to Wordpress, then doing a wordpress-to-twitter thing, feedburner, this, that, the other, updating content, e-mails - my brain's mush.
...not helped by the fact I suddenly realised I have to write the entire part 2 of the second book from scratch. On the day I was going to start book 3! Not a happy camper.
The move to wordpress showed me just how bad LiveJournal has become. I'm only waiting for a couple of book covers to arrive and I'll be migrating my own site/blog to wordpress - which is a joy to use.
Elsewhere - "The Shangri-La Affair" is now available in Hebrew as part of the new annual from the Israeli SF Society. And I'm nominated for an award! Anne and Jeff VanderMeer's new Last Drink Bird Head Awards, in the "international activism" category. LOL. Incidentally, I'll be guest-blogging over on Jeff's blog next month - or at least, I will if my Internet connection works long enough to post something.
Oh well - re-writes tomorrow. Yay.
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04:45 pm
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World SF News Blog move to Wordpress
LJ finally broke me down (those adverts! Hit the monkey! Hit the monkey!) and so after some concentrated work, and with Charles Tan's online presence, we got the World SF News Blog moved to a new, improved home over at Wordpress.com
Check it out! Spread the word!
As part of the move, I hope we'll see the WSNB move further with some new original content, in the form of round table discussions, interviews and articles - at least we hope so. It also has a dedicated e-mail address now - worldsfblog at gmail dot com. We'd love to hear from you.
While I'm on here (I'm ensconced - en-sconed? I'd like a scone - at an internet cafe) a quick round-up of some other things, namely:
The Tel Aviv Dossier is #7 on the Horror Mall Digital Editions Best Seller List.
Ellen Datlow's Lovecraft Unbound anthology is now available on Amazon!
New British published Immersion Press has its web site up and running.
Apex Books has a new webstore and to celebrate they're offering 20% off on all title - including HebrewPunk, if you still want one of them apples. (The code is NEWDESIGN)
And now I could do with a beer!
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12:06 pm
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New interview
A new 7-question interview with me is currently up over at Writing Raw.
Book #2 went over to my agent on Monday to read, and I will hopefully, hopefully start book #3 this coming Monday. In the meantime I've written two new short stories - my first in quite a while - and am tinkering with a third.
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02:43 pm
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Typhoon Ketsana heading our way...
... so not sure how things are gonna pan out in the next couple of days. Ketsana looks like it's going to a Category 1, with wind speeds of 120-150Km/hour. It's currently in Vietnam and heading this way...
Will keep you posted.
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03:00 pm
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Revision
I spent the last week going over the book #2 manuscript, and it's almost there now. Tweaking, fixing, plugging holes and so on. I also managed to write 2 new short stories recently - the first in a while.
So the book should be on its way to the agent very shortly - who hopefully won't ask for any major rewrites - and book #3 should start next week, unless I get tempted into one of the other books I want to write... sigh. Too bad cloning is not an option.
Israeli readers, by the way, can enter a competition to win copies of both The Tel Aviv Dossier and The Apex Book of World SF. All you have to do is sign up for the mailing list. "In honor of the upcoming ICon 2009 (Oct-4th to Oct. 9th) I will be giving away one free scifi or fantasy book on each day of the festival."
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01:25 pm
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Pirates of the Carribean: On Stranger Tides? No way!
Yes way!
Disney have optioned Tim Powers' On Stranger Tides, to be the fourth installment in the Pirates of the Carribean franchise.
That is cool beyond words.
On Stranger Tides was the first Powers book I ever read. I picked up a copy in a shopping mall in Johannesburg years ago - an American first edition that must have been shipped to South Africa the way remaindered books still end up there. It cost me the princely sum of 3 Rands... and launched me on a Powers collecting habit that led, by a roundabout way, to my meeting and becoming friends with fellow Powers collector John Berlyne - later to become my agent. I have the beautiful-beyond-words first UK edition of On Stranger Tides (you'd know it if you saw it!) though I think John, going one better on me, actually has the original painting for the cover! I have about 40 Powers editions in my collection, and my copy of Secret Histories is patiently waiting for me in London.
Really fantastic news - now to wait for the film to come out!
Current Mood: pleased
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