Reading

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Good news!

Queen of Swords Press News Flash! Just learned that author Michael Merriam’s terrific pulpy Weird West, TERROR AT TIERRA DE COBRE (Queen of Swords Press, 2024), is a semi finalist for the inaugural Small Spec Book Awards! It’s our first title to be a horror finalist for any award and we’re very proud of Michael and his book! The Small Spec Book Awards were launched earlier this year as a way to get more attention on worthy small press titles that weren’t getting any buzz for the bigger awards. They did a stellar job getting interviews and reviews out over the course of the year and I’m really glad I found them on Bluesky. You can read more about the awards here (they got some great submissions!).

Here’s a link to a fun interview one of the SSBA influencers did with Michael and a new review of the book!

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Ink to Film Podcast Recording at WorldCon

If you missed the live recording of the Murderbot interview episode at WorldCon, you can watch it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-JRHSABM24

This includes the special message to me that the show's cast sent, which was awesome.

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I'm still sick, but getting better bit by bit.

Back

I'm back, sort of. We did a week of vacation after WorldCon, then got sick on the last day, so I'm still recovering. Covid tests were negative, so I think it's just a bad cold. It probably wouldn't be so bad if we hadn't had to do a full day of travel from 6:00 am to 10:30 pm to get home.

More later, but one of my favorite things was the really wonderful piece that N.K. Jemisin wrote about me for the program book.

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Big thing I wanted to mention here: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/martha-wells-murderbot-and-more-tor-books

This is a 14 ebook Humble Bundle from Tor, (DRM-free as usual) and you can select a portion of the price to donate to World Central Kitchen.