Illogicon Bound!

Well, not until tomorrow. But I will be en route then, so I'm posting about it now. Utterly logical time travel, right?

If you're going to be there, here is where you can find me. If you're not going to be there....well, why NOT?

Friday	Panel	Room
5 pm	Reading (your first chance to hear something BRAND NEW!)	Crescent
7 pm	History of Urban Fantasty (I'm the moderator!)	Smith
Saturday	Panel	Room
11 am	Diversity in F&SF (I'm NOT the moderator!  But I'm ringing a list of questions anyway).	Smith
Sunday	Panel	Room
10 am	Advice for Fiction Writers (beyond "flee, you fool!")	Reynolds
2 pm	The Practical Business of Writing (because Practical Meerkat has an Opinion. Or seven.)	Smith

Another Reviewer Heard From... on HEART OF BRIAR

Oh, *squeak* Purely by accident I stumbled across Black Gate's review of HEART OF BRIAR, and I am a happy happy happy author....

"She got me. I didn’t expect to get caught up in this book, thought I would just read the first couple of chapters, because it’s not my usual kind of thing. Gilman uses some of the tropes of paranormal romance, but she’s using them to do bigger things, some of which I did not see coming....I can itemize the romance elements that have been deployed here, but each one has been turned on its head in some deliberate way."

My favorite line:

"Gilman’s fairyland bears a remarkable resemblance to the chilling otherworld of C.L. Moore’s great pulp sword and sorcery classic story “Black God’s Kiss.”

Oh, how I loved that story as a kid.... Was I thinking of it when I was writing the Portals duology?  I can't say I was.  But it was probably in my mind, however deep...

And then they go on to talk about Jan, and totally get her: It’s easy to root for Jan, even when she makes her gravest mistakes. She’s funny, she’s brutally honest with herself about the uglier moments of her inner life, and the love that drives her is genuinely complicated. It’s angry love, wronged love, but to her surprise she finds that it remains unconditional love.

I'm now going to be nervously waiting to see what they think about Book 2, SOUL OF FIRE