Isaiah S., a DeviantArtist I watch, is doing a series of fairy tale & legendary women drawings. An Iron Age barrel of butter has been discovered in Ireland (hat-tip to Andra for the link). Urban reforestation: making buildings greener. Literally. (Hat-tip to Marith for the link.)
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This is a week of awesome.
Alethea Kontis has posted pictures her father took of Discovery’s launch on Saturday night. A decade’s worth of discovery: New species in the Himalayas. Scott Lynch is serializing QUEEN OF THE IRON SANDS (not, as I earlier said, IRON SKIES, although that’s also an awesome title), a pulp fiction novel, online for free. (It is my goal to post at least three topics of awesome each day this week. The world has enough goddamned bad news.)
e-piracy
I got an email last night from someone notifying me of a site where my books were being offered as free downloads. This particular site just offers tidy zipped files which, in my case, contains every book I’ve written under the CE Murphy byline. It struck me as particularly egregious, and I emailed my editors and agent about it, put in a complaint with Blogger/Google’s content violation page, and have been posting on Twitter and Facebook about the site’s location so other authors can send their publishers’ piracy team to…
Rocks fall. Everybody dies.
I was just whinging that this was a part of the synopsis where if I could write, “And then something big happens,” it would be much easier. Laura Anne, helpfully, said, “Rocks fall. Everybody dies.” …which, as it turns out, given the location and scene at hand, is a totally valid plot suggestion. Sometimes this job doesn’t suck. :)
books!
We just got a box full of the mass market reprints of the WINTER MOON anthology, which contains “Banshee Cries”, the novella that fits between URBAN SHAMAN and THUNDERBIRD FALLS in the chronology of the Walker Papers universe. I knew it was being reprinted in October, but I sort of wasn’t expecting a box full of them for some time yet. We have a perfectly ridiculous number of my books lying around the house now. I should do something about that. A contest or something, except I’d have to wait…