Laura Anne Gilman @LAGilman@raggedfeathers.com
Writer, editor & wine nerd; cat-herder, amateur traveler & professional nap-taker. Author of The Devil's West series, among others.
http://lauraannegilman.net
Reading over the WiP and I hit this line, hard:
"He found he could regret his choices without thinking there had been any other choice he could make."
This entire book is filled with people who have no choice but to make horrible choices, and hope for the best. Heroes, villains, semi-innocent bystanders...
From a handful of people who couldn’t make it into Seattle saying ‘well, we can stand on a corner with signs,’ to a crowd of 500+ strong in protest, despite the rain. And a lot of enthusiastic honking and thumbs-up from passing traffic (and only two car-trolls encountered).
Well-done, my relatively conservative neighborhood.
Today is the Families Belong Together march across the nation and the world in protest against the Trump Misadministration's harsh family separation/detention policies.
Marches, via MoveOn: https://act.moveon.org/event/families-belong-together/?source=FBTsite622
#FamiliesBelongTogetherMarch #FamiliesBelongTogether #FamiliasUnidasNoDivididas #LasFamiliesMerecenEstarUnidas
#EndFamilySeparation #FindelaSeparaciónFamiliar
#EndFamilyDetention #FinalaDetenciónFamiliar
Someone just told me that the Devil’s West books not only gave her an escape when she desperately needed it, but also gave her the strength to go back to her own writing.
I’m not crying, you’re…
Oh, yah. I’m crying.
With all the other crap going on the world, a reminder of joy! excitement! new books! And the opportunity to lovingly heckle me!
Tomorrow night at UBookstore in #Seattle!
Toooooklahoma, where every night my sweetie and I
sit alone and smoke, and watch the cops
eating donuts as they pass on by!
(spoken: mmmm, donuts)
We know we owe it to the land
and the habit, it costs us a grand
so when we say
Yeeow! Aye-yip-aye-yo-ee-ay!
We're only sayin'
You're flyin' high, Oklahoma!
Oklahoma O.K!
Thank you, Oklahoma, for being the 30th state to legalize medical marijuana, and OhNoSheTwitnt for inspiring (?) me....
TOKE-lahoma
where the smoke goes sweepin' through the room
and the craving's deep for something sweet
when the toke hits with a righteous boom…
NPR has also had some words to say about RED WATERS RISING!
"Gilman is magic in that junction point between the real and the imaginary, and she's remarkable in allowing her world to grow solely out of the observations of her main character. Isobel is not just the reader surrogate, but a rounded, living, breathing, aching, regretting, exhausted, terrified, joyous and (so, so often) terribly confused vessel through which we experience Gilman's deep and interconnected world."
The final book in the Devil's West trilogy, RED WATERS RISING is "fascinating" (Publishers Weekly") and "gripping" (Kirkus)!
And it's available today!
Have you got your copy yet?
http://www.lauraannegilman.net/whats-in-print/devils-west/red-waters-rising/
And if you find the tone or content of my previous comment objectionable, you'll probably find me objectionable, too. I am not polite in the face of bigotry, legalized or otherwise.
I am furious that the Stolen SCOTUS decided to use today to uphold racist and sexist rulings (upholding the Muslim ban, allowing clinics to lie to women about abortion options), not only because I wanted to spend all day today in a happy bliss about my new book release, but because ANY day would be a shitty day for them to pull this shit.
But I'm not going to stop fighting for things like fairness, equality, and, yes, social justice. With my vote, with my voice, and with my words.
Because I'm a) lazy and b) tired, I’m henceforth assuming that people default to bisexuality/pansexuality and it’s going to be up to them to tell me* they’re not.
*or not; if they’re not interested in getting into my panties, it’s none of my damn business.
(this comment brought to you by someone not-here insisting that non-het women should somehow 'identify' themselves so he wasn't inconvenienced. I may have facepalmed hard enough to leave a bruise.)
This was a nice thing to wake up to this morning....
http://www.lauraannegilman.net/pw-has-words-about-red-waters-rising/
Next Thursday in Seattle! I'm celebrating the launch of RED WATERS RISING at University Bookstore! Reading! Signing! Horrifying Research Stories! And Cookies!
And today I'm over at My Favorite Bit, talking about, well, My Favorite Bit from RED WATERS RISING... http://maryrobinettekowal.com/journal/my-favorite-bit-laura-anne-gilman-talks-about-red-waters-rising/
Awake, outside Boston, trying to figure out how to use my sister's coffee maker (shaddup, I've been using a French press for almost a decade now, complicated tech confuses me before coffee.)
(My nephew the tea-drinker is not going to be much help).
Heading to Boston later today, for a combination research trip (checking Stuff for the WiP) and signing-local-bookstore-stock. Internetting may be limited for the duration....
and the day ends on a happy squeak. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2413445101 "This is a worthy culmination of Gilman's Devil's West trilogy."
(disclaimer: the reviewer got an ARC because they helped me change a blown tire. However, there was no obligation on their part to enjoy the book)
Real resistance and solidarity is happening in Portland, OR right now.
As the Trump admin is kidnapping children and terrorizing families, we will do EVERYTHING we can to stop this.
Occupation of #ICE detention center in #PDX is happenimg NOW and is ongoing. SHUT. IT DOWN.
If a similar action is not beimg held near you, make it happen.
Portlanders, get tf doen to 4310 SW Macadam Ave if you can. Stat. We have ppl on the ground. We need bodies. We need support
Via Indivisible, an alert for #Philly-area folk:
Mike Pence will be in Philly at the Rittenhouse Hotel tomorrow night (6/19) for a GOP fundraiser at 6pm. They're encouraging everyone to go out to the Square & let him know how you feel about his president's policy of stealing and caging children.
