Miscellaneous bits of good personal news

[catherineldf]

Pretty much all writing or publishing-related:

• Finnish review site Rising Shadow gave my collection Out of This World: Queer Speculative Fiction Stories a glorious, thoughtful review. Seriously, this is going to be one of the ones I go back and reread on bad weeks.
• A second judge for the Rainbow Awards has glowing things to say about Silver Moon, which bodes well for it to be a finalist in its category. Fingers crossed!
•  The new Emily L. Byrne collection, Desire, is out on all ebook platforms and is getting a tiny bit of buzz. It is also a Goldie Award Nominee (when the website gets updated), running again Emily's other collection, Knife's Edge as well as Sacchi Green's powerhouse lesbian fairtytales antho Witches, Princesses and Women at Arms (which includes Emily's story "Toads, Diamonds and the Occasional Pearl"). Going to be something of a nailbiter of an award season around here!
• A selection of Queen of Swords Press titles will be out at Bella Books soon. Bella Books Distribution is one of the surviving small book distributors so it will be nice to support them while they give QoSP titles a bit more of a footprint.
• My talk on starting a small press may be garnering me some event invites for next year. More news as I have it. I'm also happy to Skype to your class, visit your book clubs, appear at your events and so forth. Ping me, we can work something out.

Now, I'm off to go see "Christmas at Pemberley" at The Jungle Theater and bask in what is hopefully a well-done Austen sequel!

Comments

[pameladean]

I'll be interested in your opinion of the play. I've been eying it.

P.

[catherineldf]

I like the casting, most of the performances, the staging and the costumes. The writing is a bit weak (Act 2 is much stronger than Act 1) and there are way too many comic pratfalls. But if you don't compare it to actual Austen and you just want an amiable, if not great, pastiche/sequel, it's a pleasant way to pass some time and catch some live theater.

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks so much for the review! I think I'll pass. I am in favor of live theater and supporting it locally, but money is a bit tight, so I think I'll wait for Ten Thousand Things to do its next Thing. I don't feel that comic pratfalls really work with Jane Austen, though they are fine in their place.

P.