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If you're in San Francisco, Seattle, or New York City you can find signed copies of my books here:
Borderlands
866 Valencia St
San Francisco
415.824.8203
They not only have the Magic or Madness trilogy but also Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction and Daughters of Earth
Books Inc Opera Plaza
601 Van Ness
San Francisco
415-776-1111
All For Kids
2900 N.E. Blakeley Street
Seattle
206.526.2768
Books of Wonder
18 West 18th Street
New York
212-989-3270
If you're hankering for a signed copy of one of my books but don't live anywhere near those shops---they all do mail order.
And because I'm curious how many of you like to have all your favourite books signed by the author? Do any of you collect signed books even if you've not read the book in question?
Posted by Justine at 13:12, October 28th, 2007 under Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction, Daughters of Earth, Magic or Madness trilogy |
In my previous life I was an academic. Not a very successful or prolific one. I spent four and a half years researching and writing my PhD thesis, while on a scholarship and doing paid-by-the-hour teaching (what's known in the US as being a TA) as well as IT support. After that I was awarded a three-year post-doctoral fellowship that my university extended for nine months. In that time I wrote and published one book,
The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction, and edited a collection of stories and essays,
Daughters of Earth as well as writing a bunch of essays and papers (and on the sly I wrote
short stories and a ...
Posted by Justine at 11:10, August 27th, 2007 under Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction, Daughters of Earth, Excuses, How To Ditch Your Fairy, Magic or Madness trilogy |
So, um, I seem to have won three awards this year. I know! I was as shocked as you. Anyways, I thought it might be fun to have a squiz at 'em. For annoying scheduling reasons I managed not to be at any of the award ceremonies so I've only just got my hands on two of them and have yet to see the third. It's back home in Sydney being babysat by my parents (thanks Jan and John!).
Here's the Susan Koppelman (thanks for accepting it for me, Brian):
Photo by Scott Westerfeld
The Norton (thanks, Eloise):
Photo by Scott Westerfeld
And the William Atheling (thanks, Sean):
Photo by Niki Bern
Contrast in awards ...
Posted by Justine at 1:40, July 12th, 2007 under Daughters of Earth, Magic or Madness trilogy, New York City/USA, Sydney/Australia, Vainglory |
Thanks to Sean and Tole, I just found out that Daughters of Earth has won the
William Atheling Jr. Award. Woo hooo!!!! This is the award given by the Australian science fiction community for the best criticism.
I'm stoked beyond stokage.
Posted by Justine at 12:40, June 10th, 2007 under Daughters of Earth, Vainglory |
Posted by Justine at 18:31, April 27th, 2007 under Book challenges, Daughters of Earth, New York City/USA, Praising, Ranting, Reading, State of the World, Young Adult literature |
Posted by Justine at 14:23, April 2nd, 2007 under Daughters of Earth, Magic or Madness trilogy |
For the next month, there's an ad for Magic's Child up on
Locus online. Tis my very first one and I'm dead excited. Ordinarily, I can't stand ads but somehow it's different when it's an ad for one of my books. That makes me want to pat it and sing it songs. Lovely, lovely ad. Designed by the fabulous Courtney Wood who also made those beautiful screensavers which you can now download from the links in the sidebar.
There is now a cover for the Science Fiction Book Club's 3-in-1 version of my trilogy. It's called The Magic or of Reason.
In other vainglorious news, the
Hathor Legacy likes Daughters of Earth, describing it as ...
Posted by Justine at 11:35, March 22nd, 2007 under Bloggery, Cricket, Daughters of Earth, Magic or Madness trilogy, New York City/USA, Praising, Sport, Vainglory |
1. I am now officially an award-winning author. Sort of.
Daughters of Earth just won the Susan Koppelman Award for Best Anthology, Multi-Authored, or Edited book in Feminist Studies in Popular Culture which is given by the Popular Culture Association. How cool is that? No book of mine has ever won an award before.
As I didn't write Daughters---other than the introduction anyways---I'm not sure this qualifies me as an award-winning author. I guess what I am is the editor of an award-winning book. I sure did put a lot of work into it and so did all the contributors. We're very proud and thrilled that someone else likes it well enough to give it a prize. Woo hoo!
Thank you ...
Posted by Justine at 17:41, February 28th, 2007 under Daughters of Earth, Magic or Madness trilogy, New York City/USA, Praising, Vainglory |
Posted by Justine at 0:15, February 7th, 2007 under Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction, Bloggery, Daughters of Earth, Reading, Vainglory |
Posted by Justine at 16:02, February 1st, 2007 under Daughters of Earth, Magic or Madness trilogy, Scott's books, Vainglory |
This time it's
Daughters of Earth ((Which means every single one of my published books has been up for an award. Isn't that amazing? Of course, when the award noms dry up, does it mean my career is over?
Nah. I can think of gazillions of wonderful books that have slid under the award radar. I'm very fortunate that mine haven't. It's good to remind myself that like everying in publishing award nominations are mostly just luck.)) on the
British Science Fiction Association's non-fiction shortlist. Let there be w00ting! Here's the other nominees:
The Arthur C. Clarke Award: A Critical Anthology, ed. Paul Kincaid and Andrew M. Butler (Serendip Foundation)
Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century, ed. ...
Posted by Justine at 21:07, January 15th, 2007 under Daughters of Earth, Vainglory |
It's been another good year for me professionally and I will now skite about it: My second and third books, Magic Lessons and Daughters of Earth, were both published to some very nice
reviews and
reader responses. The whole Magic or Madness trilogy sold to
Editora Record in Brazil, Magic or Madness and Magic Lessons sold to
Mondadori in Italy, while Magic Lessons and Magic's Chld sold to
Amarin in Thailand. And then there was the recent sale of the trilogy to the
Science Fiction Book Club for a 3-in-1. Not to mention Magic Lessons being on the shortlist for the Aurealis.
It was a great year for
Scott who hit the ...
Posted by Justine at 9:50, December 31st, 2006 under Bloggery, Cricket, Daughters of Earth, How To Ditch Your Fairy, Last Day of the Year, Magic or Madness trilogy, Praising, Scott's books, Sport, State of the World, Sydney/Australia, Vainglory, Writing goals & milestones |
Posted by Justine at 14:15, October 13th, 2006 under Bloggery, Cons & Other Gatherings, Daughters of Earth, Reading |
Posted by Justine at 0:05, July 24th, 2006 under Daughters of Earth, How To Ditch Your Fairy, Liar Book, Vainglory |
Remember the anthology I published a couple of months ago?
Daughters of Earth?
Well, at long last, it's
been reviewed and the review's a lovely one.
Here's what Nancy Jane Moore at
sfrevu has to
say about Daughters:
In Daughters of Earth, eleven feminist science fiction scholars look at eleven feminist science fiction stories. Given that the field of science fiction scholarship is a small one, it is a joy to find eleven very good feminist scholars among them. Combining the microcosm of each story with the macrocosm of the Twentieth Century, these scholars provide us with a depth of experience we can't get just reading the stories themselves.
A ridiculous amount of work (tracking down ...
Posted by Justine at 10:13, July 5th, 2006 under Daughters of Earth, Vainglory |
The combination of jetlag and a cold meant that I did not get as much out of this year's WisCon as I normally do. But
everybody else seemed to be having an
amazing time. There were a great many people there that I didn't even get a chance to say hello to like Suzy McKee Charnas, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Jay Lake, Kelly Link, Sharyn November, Nisi Shawl, Helen Pilinovsky and I hardly had a conversation of any length the whole weekend long.
But I did finally get to meet
Cherie Priest and she was just as fabulous as expected. More, even. (Thank you Liz Gorinsky for arranging it---lovely to see you, too!). As well as the ...
Posted by Justine at 18:35, May 30th, 2006 under Cons & Other Gatherings, Daughters of Earth, Excuses, New York City/USA, Travelling, Whingeing |
Posted by Justine at 7:48, April 21st, 2006 under Bloggery, Cricket, Daughters of Earth, Publishing business, Sport |
Here is where you'll find me at WisCon (and just before):
"A Feminist Utopia in Madison? Global Communities, Science Fiction and Women"
Wednesday 24 May, 2006, 7:30 pm
Wisconsin Historical Society Auditorium, 816 State Street.
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Open to the public, free of charge
Panelists:
Elizabeth Bear,
Karen Joy Fowler,
Nalo Hopkinson, Justine Larbalestier (moderator),
Meghan McCarron
Food in SF&F (Reading SF&F)
Saturday, 1:00-2:15 p.m. Saturday, 1:00-2:15 p.m.
Melissa Scott, Justine Larbalestier, Janet Lafler, Mary Kay Kare, Nora Jemison
Literary History of Women in Science Fiction. (Feminism, Sex, and Gender)
Saturday, 2:30-3:45 p.m. Saturday, 2:30-3:45 p.m.
Pamela Sargent, Justine Larbalestier, Andrea D. Hairston, Janice Marie Bogstad, Brian Attebery
Banned & Challenged Books (Reading SF&F)
Saturday, 9:00-10:15 p.m. Saturday, 9:00-10:15 p.m.
Deborah Stone, Veronica L. Schanoes, Anne Marie Redalen ...
Posted by Justine at 17:26, April 19th, 2006 under Cons & Other Gatherings, Daughters of Earth, Feminism, Food |
Sorry for the silence. My excuses are many and covered in mucus and jetlag. Which led to my inadvertantly consigning a number of thoughtful posts to spam purgatory. My apologies. Please comment again. I hope to be non-mucus laden and competent any day now and am much less likely to nuke future comments.
While I lay sweating, coughing, swelling and dripping mucus, the wonderful
Deborah Biancotti was making additons to my website to accommodate the imminent (and in San Francisco, at least, actual) arrival of my second novel,
Magic Lessons the sequel to Magic or Madness. Feast your eyes
here and
here. You can even read the
first two chapters. She's also created a new section ...
Posted by Justine at 18:33, March 10th, 2006 under Admin, Cons & Other Gatherings, Daughters of Earth, Excuses, Magic or Madness trilogy, New York City/USA, Praising, Scott's books, Whingeing |
I'm in the middle of updating my website to accommodate the imminent arrival of my next two books,
Magic Lessons, the sequel to Magic or Madness, and
Daughters of Earth, an anthology of feminist science fiction stories and essays. The lovely
Deborah Biancotti is making it all look pretty.
Claire Light's brilliant
FAQ has reminded me that I need to update
my own. So anyone got any questions for me that aren't there already? About the books? About the writing life? About whatever. Fire away!
Posted by Justine at 6:49, February 24th, 2006 under Daughters of Earth, Magic or Madness trilogy |
Samuel R. Delany's book
About Writing will not get out of my brain. I keep thinking about his concept of the usefulness, no, the essentialness of doubt (good! I got plenty of that), about how slavishly following the rules and working hard leads to aesthetic banality (the rules of good writing, not the rules of how-to-get-an-agent/editor---
you have to follow those). And about being a hack.
Delany's book made me feel like one (in a good way). His description of his own writing process, of how to write the absolute best you can, is a recipe for books that go through many, many drafts and take a long, long time to write, books that delve down into every doubt or ...
Posted by Justine at 9:44, February 1st, 2006 under Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction, Daughters of Earth, Magic or Madness trilogy, Reading, Writing life, Writing process |
I have a question for sf/fantasy/horror etc readers. Who are the new feminist voices you're most excited about? I'm hearing great things about Sarah Monette. And I know all about
Lauren McLaughlin and
Meghan McCarron. But who am I missing out on? Who now is writing books and stories that look at questions of identity, gender, sex, race, class in cool and interesting ways? Who talks about these issues in exciting ways on their blogs? Tell me!
I just heard that,
Daughters of Earth, my feminist sf anthology will be out 1 May. Just in time for
WisCon! Most excellent!
I've been working on a post for awhile now about all the fabby blogs about the publishing industry ...
Posted by Justine at 7:38, January 27th, 2006 under Bloggery, Daughters of Earth, Feminism, Reading |
Just read and giggled all over
this post by
Diana Peterfreund in which she wittily whinges about all the work she has to do (and skewers Star Wars). It struck a chord cause I was just about to whinge about the pageproofs of
Daughters of Earth which just landed in my life with a very heavy thunk.
Aaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!
Diana (I'm taking liberties referring to her by first name, I don't actually know her, but I read her fabbie blog, so I feel like I know her) starts by referring to a
harder working writer who has family on top of it all, whereas Diana just has her sailor boy and a full-time job. I'm going to lower the ...
Posted by Justine at 13:45, October 24th, 2005 under Bloggery, Daughters of Earth, Excuses, How To Ditch Your Fairy, Magic or Madness trilogy, Ranting, Travelling, Whingeing, Writing life |
Once Daughters was banished from my life, yesterday was all basketball all the time. First up: off to Madison Square Garden to watch the Liberty
make easy work of destroying the San Antonio Silver Stars. We invited two friends of ours who've never seen the Liberty play. I believe we have a couple of converts. Yay!
And then home to watch the final quarter of the sixth game of the NBA finals where the men's San Antonio team was also beaten. Dee-troit! Bas-ket-baaall!
Now if only the cricket would start doing what I want it to!
Posted by Justine at 9:25, June 22nd, 2005 under Basketball, Cricket, Daughters of Earth, Sport |
The
Daughters of Earth manuscript was finished, packed in a box, and posted back to the tender ministrations of its publisher yesterday (only a couple of days late). Magic Lessons is also back with its publisher (on time) and about to be typeset. It should be an ARC in a few weeks. Yay!
Thanks to
Tim Pratt and Pauline Dickinson and the good folks of Sydney Uni library's Rare Books (why didn't I think of them in the first place? [Slaps forehead]) for coming through with the page numbers. And thanks to everyone for being kind during these last few weeks of way, way, way too much work. Now I can go back to writing the new novel. ...
Posted by Justine at 9:11, June 22nd, 2005 under Daughters of Earth, Magic or Madness trilogy, Writing goals & milestones |
I don't have the page numbers for the following stories. If anyone out there has them I'd sure appreciate your sharing said knowledge with me. And, yes, please pass this along to anyone you think might be able to help.
Your reward for helping me out? You get your name in the acknowledgments for Daughters of Earth.
Asimov, Isaac. "Profession," Astounding Science Fiction, (July 1957):
---. "The Mule," Astounding Science Fiction, (Nov-Dec 1945):
Hamilton, Edmond, "The Man Who Evolved," Wonder Stories (April 1931):
Piper, H. Beam. "Omnilingual," Astounding Science Fiction, (Feb 1957):
Reed, Kit. "To Lift a Ship," The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, (April 1962):
Sheldon, Raccoona. "The Screwfly Solution." Analog (June 1977):
Tuttle, Lisa, and George R. R. Martin. "The Storms ...
Posted by Justine at 16:30, June 20th, 2005 under Daughters of Earth, Research |
I just have to remind myself of that, cause right now, checking over this gazillion-page bibliography for Daughters of Earth, I'm starting to wish that everything was published in New York by a press I know how to spell.
Posted by Justine at 13:41, June 18th, 2005 under Daughters of Earth, Publishing business |
and I'll write about sports if I want to! So stop emailing to tell me to post about "more interesting things." The very idea!
But there won't be much posting about anything---interesting or not---over the next few days. This is my last day to fix Daughters of Earth and the copyedited Magic Lessons just arrived and has to be back with my publisher by Tuesday morning.
Bye for now.
Posted by Justine at 11:55, June 17th, 2005 under Daughters of Earth, Excuses, Magic or Madness trilogy, Sport |
Anyone in NYC know where I can buy some really good red pencils that don't break every ten seconds? I've barely been editing with these ones for half an hour and I've already gone through four of the little monsters from hell. Enough!
Posted by Justine at 15:10, June 13th, 2005 under Daughters of Earth, Whingeing |
Now there are
two manuscripts sitting on my desk glaring at me, waiting to be checked and made perfect. The pages for the Australian edition of Magic or Madness just arrived. Corrections on it and Daughters of Earth are due the same day. At least morm isn't 800 pages long and full of complicated footnotes and bibliography and other irritating scholarly apparatus. Stupid scholarly apparatus.
There go my fingernails.
Posted by Justine at 12:53, June 7th, 2005 under Daughters of Earth, Magic or Madness trilogy, Writing goals & milestones |
There's an 800 page manuscript sitting on my desk. It's so very big. The biggest ms. I've ever had anything to do with. The enormity of it is paralysing me.
Daughters of Earth, my anthology of feminist sf stories and essays, has to be checked and made as perfect as possible in a terrifyingly short amount of time if we're going to launch it at WisCon next year. I have to photocopy 11 essays to send to their authors to check. Then I have to read through and correct the whole thing.
I have four unsharpened red pencils. I have a sharpener. I have the Chicago Manual of Style. I have
Scott's moral support.
Wish me luck!
Posted by Justine at 13:13, June 3rd, 2005 under Daughters of Earth, Whingeing, Writing goals & milestones |
It's 7:30AM on Thursday morning and I've been awake for an hour, lying on the couch, watching a repeat of yesterday's cricket in New Zealand (NZ versus Sri Lanka) and reading
C. L. R. James's Beyond a Boundary. I watch Jayawardene batting beautifully, lots of lovely attacking shocks, including some quite exquisite cover drives while C. L. R. James (I love using all his initials) bitches about defensive, boring batting in the 1950s. (His theory: it was because the 1950s was boring.)
I'm having a lovely morning, ...
Posted by Justine at 1:25, April 7th, 2005 under Cricket, Daughters of Earth, Magic or Madness trilogy, Musings, Sport, Sydney/Australia |
the sequel to Magic or Madness is finished
Posted by Justine at 1:36, January 26th, 2005 under Daughters of Earth, Magic or Madness trilogy, Musings, Writing goals & milestones |
