An Auction for a Worthy Cause

In an effort to increase diversity in the sf community, Con or Bust helps people of color attend SFF conventions and is administered by Kate Nepveu under the umbrella of the Carl Brandon Society, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. Tor has donated copies of my novels Earthseed and Farseed to an auction to raise funds for Con or Bust, and you can bid on the books here. Bidding is now open and closes Sunday, February 24, 2013 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time. 

An Alternative Western

My novel Climb the Wind, a finalist for the 1998 Sidewise Award for Alternate History and with a cast of characters that includes Buffalo Bill Cody, Calamity Jane, Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, Frederick Douglass, Crazy Horse, Annie Oakley, and a number of other historical and fictional people, is now available as an audio book from Audible.com.

The Shore of Women

My 1986 novel The Shore of Women is now available in unabridged audio form from Audible.com. 

Rebranding Genre Fiction as Young Adult Fiction

The question this week at SF Signal's Mind Meld is: What genre novels would benefit from a re-branding as Young Adult? Which YA novels should not be branded as such? My answer is the last, which means you get to read some fascinating and provocative responses from Gail Carriger, E.C. Myers, R.T. Kaelin, Alethea Kontis, and others as you scroll down to what I have to say.

A Review and an Interview

Jules Sherred, a contributor to Wired's GeekMom blog, interviewed me last week for her Geeky Pleasures radio program; that interview can be heard here. Her review of Farseed is here.

Among the subjects discussed during my hour-and-a-half long interview with Jules: The evolution of YA, “adult themes” and how parenting has changed; the influence of social media on our perceptions of the world; becoming a fan of sci-fi, the subculture around it, and the evolution of the community thanks to the Internet; differences between science-fiction and fantasy; writing licensed Star Trek novels, and much more.