New book today - and other book news
Sep. 27th, 2012 04:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altarielToday is the official publication day of my new Star Trek novel: Brinkmanship:
I worked really hard with the female characters in this book. My aim was to represent as many different women with as many different agendas as I could. Hope I pulled it off.
And I'm also pleased to say that the Table of Contents has now been released of Chicks Unravel Time, in which I have an essay on Season 26 of Doctor Who. More here, where you can see the rather brilliant full list of contributors.
In other news, we are four days into the semester, and I'm losing my voice. Oops.
The Venette Convention has always remained independent, but it is about to become the flashpoint for a tense military standoff between the two power blocs now dominating interstellar space—the United Federation of Planets and the recently formed Typhon Pact. The Venetan government turns to the Typhon Pact’s Tzenkethi Coalition for protection in the new order, and has agreed to allow three of their supply bases for Tzenkethi use. But these bases—if militarized—would put Tzenkethi weapons unacceptably close to Federation, Cardassian, and Ferengi space. While Captain Ezri Dax and the crew of the U.S.S. Aventine are sent to investigate exactly what is happening at one of the Venette bases, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the U.S.S. Enterprise are assigned to a diplomatic mission sent to the Venette homeworld in order to broker a mutually acceptable resolution. But the Cardassian delegates don’t seem particularly keen on using diplomacy to resolve the situation, which soon spirals out of control toward all-out war...
I worked really hard with the female characters in this book. My aim was to represent as many different women with as many different agendas as I could. Hope I pulled it off.
And I'm also pleased to say that the Table of Contents has now been released of Chicks Unravel Time, in which I have an essay on Season 26 of Doctor Who. More here, where you can see the rather brilliant full list of contributors.
In other news, we are four days into the semester, and I'm losing my voice. Oops.
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Date: 2012-09-27 03:18 pm (UTC)PS--singing lessons?
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Date: 2012-09-27 03:26 pm (UTC)Used to sing in a choir until last year: I think it's start of semester bugs being shared round. Hope so!
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Date: 2012-09-27 03:57 pm (UTC)Will try to work out how to Unravel Time later...
[And, half an hour after I checked my order page, Waterstones sent me an email with the following heading:
"The most anticipated book of the year out today"
Quite right, too!]
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Date: 2012-09-28 09:45 am (UTC)Ahahaha! I hadn't thought of that!
Hmm, not sure how to Unravel Time. The Norwegian Press website only seems to be selling it as part of box set of four. Will ask.
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Date: 2012-09-27 04:13 pm (UTC)Can you teach using the emphatic gesturing method?
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Date: 2012-09-28 09:47 am (UTC)Gestures good. Also glares and harrumphs.
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Date: 2012-09-27 04:28 pm (UTC)Do you by any chance teach any online classes?
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Date: 2012-09-28 09:48 am (UTC)No, I don't teach online classes. What kind of thing were you thinking of?
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Date: 2012-09-27 05:34 pm (UTC)Congratulations on the books!
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Date: 2012-09-28 09:48 am (UTC)Yes, this voice has gone early this time round. I have three days before I have to take another class. I'm dosing it with fine wine. Surely that will work.
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Date: 2012-09-27 05:38 pm (UTC)As these things happen, I found an Amazon rec marketing mail for your latest DS:9 novel in my inbox earlier. ;)
Also, feel better soon.
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Date: 2012-09-28 09:49 am (UTC)Hah, I love those marketing rec mails.
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Date: 2012-09-28 04:15 pm (UTC)Loved Chicks and Unsilent Library, so looking forward to your next DW offering. Meanwhile, getting in brandy and Kleenex for tomorrow's Amy/Rory wake.
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Date: 2012-09-30 09:46 am (UTC)Tears for A Pond Farewell. Need to rewatch with "The Eleventh Hour" today.
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Date: 2012-09-30 09:45 am (UTC)Congratulations!
Date: 2012-09-30 10:57 pm (UTC)Wishing your voice a speedy return -- bit early in the semester to be taking a holiday, eh?
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Date: 2012-10-05 09:13 am (UTC)The voice has come back, thank goodness, and I've managed not to catch all the colds going round - thus far.