Back to Bordertown

[ellenkushner]

So much going on I can't even keep up with it!  Fortunately, there's the new Bordertown Blog, where Terri & I are doing our best to post every review, interview, memoir, pensée & article as fast as they go up - so just head over here and start scrolling.....

Tomorrow, in NYC, is as close as we're coming to a Launch Party: it's at Books of Wonder at 6:00 pm, and will feature 4 authors, both co-editors (blackholly  & me), Guest Musician Joe Kessler (formerly of Boiled in Lead, and also my man on all those Thomas the Rhymer performances and my Esther: the Feast of Masks show - I love you, Joe!), the Bordertown mockumentary Video (along with some of the NYC high school kids who were in it!) . . . and lots and lots of ice & cold drinks, because it's going to be 95 fking degrees here!

If you can't come to NYC - or it's just too darned hot - you can pre-order signed books from Books of Wonder.

I did think you'd want to know that I did a lengthy podcast interview on The Geeks's Guide to the Galaxy, covering "the origins of Bordertown, poetry and music, fan participation, collaboration, writing LGBT characters, changes in the fantasy field, audio projects, funding public radio, and The Interstitial Arts Foundation...." (told you it was lengthy) - great fun chatting with hosts John Joseph Adams & David Barr Kirtley!*

And Alaya Dawn Johnson's gorgeous Welcome to Bordertown story, "A Prince of Thirteen Days," is now up for all to read on Fantasy Magazine.

And Holly & Terri's Introductions to the anthology are posted on Suvudu.com, with an introduction by me to their introductions ('cause that's how we do it around here!  Not to be confused with my Missing Introduction, which was on Scalzi's "Big Idea").

And if you could drop by the blog and throw in an actual Comment or two?  Because Terri, innaj  (who ran the amazing fantastic Sweepstakes!) & I are getting kind of demoralized doing nothing but marking Spam on everything that's come in this week....


*I haven't listened yet.  I don't dare.  You listen, and tell me they edited out all the stupid bits...!

Comments

[bethynyc.livejournal.com]

I have a thing that gets out at 7:30--should I hustle on over after or will the Launch Party be finished? I hope to get there by 8:00, since my appointment is at 15th and 3rd.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Technically, the event does run til 8 pm - I think the store closes then, or at least they start trying to hustle us out... so see what you can do - hope you can make it!

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

Is now sad to be in LA instead of NYC.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's quite a change!

And allow me to say that I love your icon?

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

I'm just visiting, but the timing is off for making the launch party, sadly. On the other hand, I get to spend my fiance's birthday with him.

I loved that podcast!

[elswhere1.livejournal.com]

You sounded just like YOU, in a way that made me smile fondly. And your love for the whole Bordertown world--and and all it encompasses, the themes and the collaboration and the history and everything else--really came through. (and I loved the part about how you & Terri were talking about dialogue & description!)