A Few Weird Tales Follow-up Links

Before I get into the links, I wanted to say thank you to everyone for your support and encouragement after Wednesday’s post. I’m declaring comment amnesty for myself because I just couldn’t keep up with them all, but I’ve read and very much appreciated every single one. Thank you!

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A number of people have reported that Weird Tales editor Marvin Kaye is responding to and defending himself in emails, but despite the publisher’s claim that Kaye would be making a statement shortly, I’ve not seen anything. That said, the publisher’s post went up five days ago. I know that businesses can’t always respond on Internet time. But I hope we’ll see some follow-up soon.

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I was very happy to see #ThoroughlyGoodBooksbyPOC show up as a trending topic on Twitter, at least briefly. Shaun Duke has compiled an alphabetical list of recommended books and authors here.

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I had caught Mary Robinette Kowal’s announcement that, in response to the Weird Tales mess, Shimmer was now paying pro rates. What I hadn’t realized was that Kowal was underwriting this rate increase herself. I therefore nominate her for the Golden Platypus Award for Awesomeness.

Mirrored from Jim C. Hines.

Libriomancer Discussion Post

Libriomancer [Amazon | B&N | Mysterious Galaxy] has been out for two and a half weeks. My thanks to everyone who’s reviewed and talked about the book. My agent describes it as my best launch week ever, and says Libriomancer hit the top ten fantasy hardcovers list for Bookscan, which is pretty darn cool.

For those of you who’ve read it, I wanted to give you a place to talk about the story. What did you like? What didn’t work for you? What are you looking forward to in Codex Born? Any predictions?

There will be spoilers in the comments!

I’m happy to answer questions … some of them, at least :-)  But I’m also happy to stay out of the way and let folks talk.

One question that came up at several of my booksignings was how libriomancy works with ebooks. I said that was answered in the book, but I think I messed up. It looks like I touched on that in the second book. Short answer: it’s possible to perform libriomancy with ebooks, but Isaac can’t do it.

Let the Wild Booktalk Rumpus begin!

Mirrored from Jim C. Hines.