Here I Am

[ellenkushner]

Light has finally dawned over Marble Head, as I realize that it is easier to post Cool New Things that have Drawn My Attention here in a bloggish sort of way than to try and keep putting them up on my website.

So I'll indulge myself with news of my creative & publishing activities (all the "To Come" stuff, anyway - the Official Appearances, existing performances etc. can all be found at

http://www.sff.net/people/KushnerSherman/kushner/

where they are meticulously updated), plus stray comments on music, film, books & trenchant sayings that I hope will be of interest to anyone who likes the rather sprawling and eclectic Ellenverse that includes the novel Swordspoint http://www.sff.net/people/KushnerSherman/kushner/swordspoint.html (check out the new page - complete with falling snow! - by Theo Black), the public radio show Sound & Spirit http://www.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/pri/spirit/, and so much in between.

I haven't spent much time on LiveJournal, so am not familiar with the Customs of the Country; but that's all right, I'm used to that, and I won't mind if you don't.

Comments

[diony.livejournal.com]

It is so hard to be coherent when face-to-face (even online) with an author one respects and admires. Suffice it to say that the year I was 17 I read Swordspoint so many times my copy fell to pieces. I was very, very glad when The Fall of the Kings came out, and am delighted to see you here.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

It makes me so happy to think of someone being 17 and wearing out my book.

You see: I am way, way over being horrified that I am actually old enough for adults to have read my stuff "when I was a kid". Way over it. Really! (No, I am. I think it's cool.)

I'm super glad you liked KINGS, too!! Delia & I got a lot of crap from some circles because it wasn't - wasn't - SWORDSPOINT all over again! (Well, duhh.... How boring would *that* be? Whaddo I look like, Robert Freakin' Jordan?)

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