Author: mizkit

Launch Day: THE QUEEN’S BASTARD

September 5, 2019

Sex, politics, murder and betrayal arrive with this re-release of THE QUEEN’S BASTARD! Amazon || Apple || Barnes & Noble (Nook) || Kobo Belinda Primrose deals in secrets. Since childhood, Belinda has known she was the unacknowledged daughter of Lorraine, the unwed queen of Aulun, an island nation on the edge of the vast Echonian continent. Belinda is a spy, an assassin…and a danger to her mother, should she ever be discovered. She can be anyone, and will do anything, to cement Lorraine’s position of power within the treacherous Echonian…

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Worldcon 77: The Monday

August 27, 2019

Clearly by the Monday of Worldcon I was too tired to even be writing about it a week later. :) I’d actually been doing very well up until the Monday morning, really. I hadn’t been getting enough sleep, but apparently going home to sleep in my own bed made a real difference, because I didn’t get properly incoherent until Monday, and usually Saturday afternoon is when that sets in with these long cons. I forgot that on Sunday (I think) I was sitting around chatting and our illustrious guest of…

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Worldcon 77: The Sunday

August 24, 2019

I actually still have the event app on my phone so I can even REMEMBER what I was doing on these days. Sunday I had an interesting panel, “Fantasies of Irish emigration,” about why so much fantasy–especially urban fantasy–seems to get written ABOUT Ireland without much of it being set IN Ireland. I called out RF Long as somebody who’s written UF both in and about Ireland, and I think there were a couple others I could think of, but it was a really fun panel (and my friend Deirdre…

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Worldcon 77: The Saturday

August 22, 2019

I am forgetting SO MUCH STUFF it isn’t even funny. Like moments where I saw a friend Thursday evening, gave her, in fact, a Word Warriors ribbon, and then saw her again at the Friday morning Word Warriors meetup, then saw her AGAIN on Saturday and was like “OMG I haven’t even seen you AT ALL this weekend! …oh, except the meetup…” and she was like “…and Thursday night…when you gave me THIS…?” It reminds me of when Dublin actually got the Worldcon bid, and I saw Ian McDonald (whom…

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Worldcon 77: The Friday

August 21, 2019

I remember what I did on Thursday for lunch! I had lunch with an editor! A couple years ago, at Worldcon 75, I got to go to the Hugo Loser’s Party, and I was going around taking pictures of the winners in their silly hats. A Tor editor who was following the party on Twitter asked if I could get a picture of her colleague who’d won, so I went and found the winner, asked if I could take and post her picture, and within about 10 minutes of the…

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