surreal botany at porter square books

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 04:27:48 GMT

If you live near Cambridge, Massachusetts, you can now find A Field Guide to Surreal Botany in its first brick-and-mortar bookstore in the US. Porter Square Books is "a (fiercely) independent, full-service bookstore established by a group of experienced, dedicated booksellers." They're under the IndieBound (formerly BookSense) umbrella, so you can be assured that almost 70% of what you spend there will stay in the community.

Contributor Cassandra Phillips-Sears (eredien), whose entry is the "Ozymandias-plant," has been fantastic about working with the staff there to get the copies into the store, and if they get bought, there's a good chance that they'll order more.

sarah palin debate flow chart

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 03:56:59 GMT

Made of WIN.



Chart created by Aden Nak

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merrie haskell at conclave

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 03:30:05 GMT

If any of you are heading to ConClave 33 in Michigan this weekend, be sure to say hi to Merrie Haskell. She's had publications in places like Asimov's and Strange Horizons, and her story "Reparations", recently podcasted at Escape Pod, just blew me away. I think she's on a number of panels, so be sure to catch her there.

Merrie also has an entry in A Field Guide to Surreal Botany ("Library Plum"), and she's the North American distributor for Two Cranes Press. She'll be bringing an armload of copies of Surreal Botany with her to the con, so please sure to buy some so that she doesn't have to cart them home!

thirty-three

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 02:24:57 GMT

My age today. Where's my walker? Get off my lawn, you damn kids!

From Wikipedia:

The sum of the first four positive factorials is 33. Adding up the sums of divisors for the 1 through 6 yields 33. 33 is the smallest integer such that it and the next two integers all have the same number of divisors.

3 is the first number that repeats in π, making it 33.

A significant number in modern numerology, one of the master numbers along with 11 and 22

A normal human spine has 33 vertebrae when the bones that form the coccyx are counted individually

The double triangle is another word for "33."

2008 is the first time in 33 years that the United States has sent a satellite to explore and orbit Mercury (January 15, 2008)

surreal botany contest at bookspotcentral

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:43:32 GMT

Want a copy of A Field Guide to Surreal Botany but can't swing the US$12? Fear not: enter a contest!

BookspotCentral is currently running a competition to win yourself a free copy of the book, signed by both me and Janet:

This contest is open to all BookSpotCentral members, just PM (private message) me at our forums and you’re entered. A winner will be drawn on October 5th. Please include address/shipping information with your entry so we can get the prizes out to you as quickly as possible.

Please be sure to visit our contest page to be up to date with all current contests hosted at BookSpotCentral.

new/old fiction at microhorror

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:35:26 GMT

My flash piece, "Malapropos," was just posted at MicroHorror. Those of you who used to read my Mythologism blog might recognize it; so it's technically a reprint, although it's the first non-blog place that the story's been published. A nice way for it to get a bit more exposure.

I've got a few other horror-themed Mythologisms in my back pocket, so hopefully they'll find a home there as well.