Strange Horizons INTERVIEW Sneak Peek

[ellenkushner]

 In one of those Bursts of Synchonicity that comes so seldom to so few (except, apparently, me), this Monday the great online magazine Strange Horizons is scheduled to reprint a Riverside short story ("The Death of the Duke") - AND outgoing fiction editor Jed Hartman has found his tape of the interview we did in 2006, right before THE PRIVILEGE OF THE SWORD was published!!!!! And they're going to print that, too!!!!

        I'm reviewing the transcript right now - and found the most delicious typo, which just as weirdly hooks up with the fact that Delia & I are at the Lowell Folk Festival right now, celebrating our 20th Anniversary (which I wrote a long post about here):

J: Can you describe what the original version [of TPOTS] was, way back in--you started working on this in '92? ish?

E:  No, it was before '92, because-- You know what? I would actually have to take out my notebooks and look at the dates. But it was hot in '92 because Delia and I were courting, having these intense discussions with her over dinner about this book, I remember it very well. It was in full cry in '92, and that was before the Justine incident, so I guess I was hot with it around then.

The word in red, of course, should be not.

But it was - ahem! - hot then, too, of course.

Being summer and all.

[And this was really ELLEN, of course - nobody else writes such elliptical sentences! But I just love what Katharine's been doing, here - and hope you do, too! -  so look for her again as Guest Blogger soon!] 

ETA:  Link to SH reprint story here - and don't miss Jed's lovely intro!.