I am just surfacing from yet another spell of illness and bedrest after a long, cold winter of the perpetual Colds and Flus… but there is exciting newsness that really should be formally acknowledged.
For a start, we won a Hugo! Galactic Suburbia has featured on every Best Fancast shortlist since the category came into being, and we are beyond excited to have won ourselves a rocket (one each!). It was particularly pleasing to have received so much support from listeners and voters this year – to have the majority of Hugo voters come out in favour of such an openly feminist podcast is fantastic. Alex, Alisa, the Silent Producer and I are all over the moon.
In other news, my second Livia Day novel, Drowned Vanilla, is now available widely in e-release, so you can purchase it in .mobi or .epub format just about anywhere that sells digital books. Don’t forget you can also download The Blackmail Blend, the tie-in short story, direct from the TPP site.
Speaking of Twelfth Planet Press, don’t forget to pick up a copy of their fabulous, important new release, Letters to Tiptree, edited by Alex Pierce and Alisa Krasnostein. The book not only features a selection of letters by current writers (including me!) addressed to the late Alice Sheldon, and her various secret identities, but also reprints letters between Tiptree and Ursula K Le Guin, discussing the famous reveal of Tiptree’s gender. People are already buzzing about this being a book to consider for the Hugo Best Related Work category next year, so get in and read it ASAP!
Back to Livia again – I’ll be appearing at the Tasmanian Readers and Writers Festival on a crime-writing panel with Michael Robotham and David Owen: Smoking Guns and Dead Leads. I believe this one is booking up fast, so get in if you want a ticket!
If you haven’t checked in with Galactic Suburbia lately, we recorded two Alli Sheldon/Raccoona Sheldon/James Tiptree Jr Spoilerific episodes to commemorate Tiptree month: The Bio and The Stories. You can also hear us squeeing and statbadgering about the Hugo results on Episode 126: The Hugos!