Recent News
June 1, 2010
Publication News: The White Road, the fifth book in Lynn Flewelling's Nightrunner series, is being released this month, as is Jacqueline Carey's Naamah's Curse, the latest book in her Terre d'Ange series.
May 9, 2010
A fundraiser is being held for Deb Mensinger, wife of author Laurie J. Marks; Mensinger is in need of a liver transplant.
April 18, 2010
Organizers have decided to cancel Gaylaxicon 2010 in Montreal due to problems with their chosen venue.
February 5, 2010
A week after removing Macmillan Books from its virtual shelves, Amazon.com has begun restoring the publisher's titles after the two reached a deal on e-book pricing.
January 30, 2010
In a dispute over e-book pricing, Amazon.com has halted all direct sales of Macmillan Books—including the Tor imprint—in both electronic and hardcopy format (though they're still available through third parties). More info; a response from Amazon; an open letter from Macmillan; and a cogent analysis by author Scott Westerfeld.
January 27, 2010
Publication News: Small Beer Press will be releasing a reprint edition of Kelley Eskridge's novel Solitaire in January of 2011.
January 18, 2010
The Perry v. Schwarzenegger trial has opened in California, the latest federal challenge to the Proposition 8 ballot initiative. Author Jewelle Gomez and her wife Diane Sabin were one of 18,000 couples married during the brief window of opportunity before Prop 8 passed. Updates on the trial can be found at the Prop 8 Trial Tracker and Out For Justice; information on the ongoing fight for marriage equality in California can be found at Equality California and the Courage Campaign. If you don't want to read transcripts, MarriageTrial.com has put together an outstanding collection of reenactments.
December 26, 2009
Award winning author Ursula K. Le Guin has resigned from the Authors Guild after almost forty years of membership to protest the Guild's settlement with Google over the digitization of books still under copyright.
December 17, 2009
Publication News: Norilana Books is slated to release an anthology of gender-bending fantasy called Scheherazade's Façade in October of 2010. In other news, after a ten-year hiatus, Alexander Jablokov has a new book due out in January of 2010 called Brain Thief (no queer protagonists, unfortunately).
December 2, 2009
Film rights for the first three books in Lynn Flewelling's Nightrunner series have been acquired by C-Squared Pictures. Work has already begun on a screenplay for Luck in the Shadows, though the company is still looking for financial backing for the project.
November 30, 2009
Publication News: Sarah Monette's next novel, tentatively called The Goblin Emperor, will be published under the pseudonym Katherine Addison. No publication date has yet been set, and no news on possible queer content.
October 1, 2009
Publication News: Santitos at Large, the sequel to Jacqueline Carey's erstwhile standalone novel, Santa Olivia, is scheduled for release in 2011. Carey has also written a novella about Anafiel Delaunay called "You, and You Alone" for the anthology Star-Crossed Lovers, edited by Gardner Dozois and George R.R. Martin, due out in 2010.
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