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  1. Quotidian Climate Catastrophe

    Note: I’m not on Twitter. If you wish to discuss any of these blog posts with me, leave a comment on my blog. I will respond. My sister is texting to find out how we make the niece scrambled eggs. I ask Scott how and text his response. Outside the sky is grey and the […]

  2. Australia is on Fire

    Note: I’m not on Twitter. If you wish to discuss any of these blog posts with me, leave a comment on my blog. I will respond. The front pages of newspapers worldwide are showing the catastrophic fires burning in Australia. I’ve been getting texts and emails and pings from friends overseas, wondering if I’m okay.1 […]

  3. Why I Left Twitter, or, the Last Day of 2019

    Note: I’m not on Twitter. If you wish to discuss any of these blog posts with me, leave a comment on my blog. I will respond. This has been a horrible year for me.1 Or, rather, it’s been a horrible two years–more than two years. In June 2017, I woke up feeling weird. It was […]

  4. Last Day of 2015

    This is my annual recap of the year that was as well as a squiz at what’s gunna happen in 2016.1 By which I mean what’s going to happen in my publishing life. I am not Nostradamus. (Actually neither was Nostradamus. He was not an accurate prognosticator.) Nor would I want to be. I’m convinced […]

  5. Torment and Writing

    One of the most insidious myths about writing is that of the Tormented Genius.1 I blame the Romantics: Byron, Wordsworth, Shelley, that lot. Who were all: [i]f you have not suffered, if you have not had your soul embiggened by your torment and anguish and substance abuse—preferably opium, but, hey, alcohol will totally do in […]

  6. Reviews

    “Laugh-out-loud funny, heart-wrenchingly sad and fist-pump-in-the-air triumphant, this sparkling gem proves that vampires, zombies and even teenagers . . . at heart, we’re all on Team Human.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “This smart and entertaining novel—part Nancy Drew with vampires, part thoughtful and provocative story about assumptions—fully blooms in the second half. Themes of honest friendship […]

  7. Writing Liar with Scrivener

    I’ve been promising a post about writing Liar using Scrivener for two years now. It wasn’t a fake promise. I’ve been working on the post. But given my hassles with RSI and othe injuries it’s been slow going. A friend asked about it recently and I realised that I haven’t touched the post in a […]

  8. Appearances 2010

    12:30PM-1:15PM, Saturday, 10 April, 2010 Justine Larbalestier, Bennett Madison, Scott Westerfeld, & Cecily von Ziegesar Reading and Q&A Center for Fiction 17 E. 47th Street, Second floor (between Madison & Fifth Ave.) NY NY 3PM, Wednesday, 26 May Book Expo America Zombies Versus Unicorns signing with Holly Black in the autographing area (Table #17) Javitts […]

  9. Zombies vs. Unicorns

    It’s a question as old as time itself: which is better, the zombie or the unicorn? In this anthology, edited by Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier (unicorn and zombie, respectively), strong arguments are made for both sides in the form of short stories. Half of the stories portray the strengths–for good and evil–of unicorns and half show the good (and really, really bad-ass) side of zombies. Contributors include many bestselling teen authors, including Cassandra Clare, Libba Bray, Maureen Johnson, Meg Cabot, Scott Westerfeld, and Margo Lanagan. This anthology will have everyone asking: Team Zombie or Team Unicorn?

    “Without a clunker in the bunch, this anthology more than lives up to the potential its concept suggests. Zombies or unicorns? There’s no clear winner, unless it’s readers.”

    Publishers Weekly (starred review)

  10. Guest Post: Baby Power Dyke on Ru Paul, John Mayer & Black History Month

    Due to boring circumstances beyond my control, I will not be online much in February. Fortunately I’ve been able to line up a number of stellar guests to fill in for me. Most are writers, but I also thought it would be fun to get some publishing types to explain what it is they do, […]

  11. Guest Post: Lili Wilkinson on Sex

    Due to boring circumstances beyond my control, I will not be online much in February. Fortunately I’ve been able to line up a number of stellar guests to fill in for me. Most are writers, but I also thought it would be fun to get some publishing types to explain what it is they do, […]

  12. Race & Representation

    Because there has been another whitewashed cover, I am being asked for my response.1 I have one thing to say:2 This is not about the accuracy of covers on books. It’s not about blonde when the character is brunette, it’s not about the wrong length hair, or the wrong colour dress, it’s not even about […]

  13. Appearances 2009

    Oz HTDYF tour Sunday, 22 Feb 2009, 2:00PM – 3:30PM Justine Larbalestier and Simmone Howell in conversation + cake State Library of Victoria—Conference Centre 328 Swanston Street (Entrance 3 on La Trobe Street) Melbourne, Victoria Go here to book Monday, 23 Feb, 2009, 6.00PM Talk & signing North Melbourne Library 66 Errol St North Melbourne, […]

  14. NaNo Tip No. 24: Writing While White

    Lately many white writers have been asking me about writing characters who aren’t white. Quite a few are doing NaNoWriMo, so I decided I’d put my responses into the NaNo tips. I’ve been asked the following questions: Why should I have non-white characters in my books? How do I write about non-white people if I’ve […]

  15. What I’m Doing This Friday

    I’ll be here: Friday, 16 October, 7:00 pm: Voracious Reader 1997 Palmer Ave 
Larchmont, NY It’s a very short train ride from Grand Central so if you’re in NYC and wish to hear me be witty and wise you can do so! It’s even closer if you’re in Westchester County and thereabouts, (which you would […]

  16. Is it 4PM yet?

    I have a mountain of work to get through before I head out on tour. But all I can think about is the third game of the WNBA finals, which takes place in Indianapolis today at 4PM (US Eastern time). So far this has been the best WNBA finals series I’ve ever seen and I’ve […]

  17. Reviews, Awards, and Lists

    “Dark, gripping . . . an engrossing story of teenage life on the margins.” —Kirkus (starred review) “Readers will get chills paging through Larbalestier’s suspenseful novel . . . with a masterfully constructed unreliable narrator [they] will be guessing and theorizing long after they’ve finished this gripping story.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “The chilling story […]

  18. Why Being a Writer is Better Than Being a Pro Sportsperson

    At BEA there was much speculation about the end of publishing as we know it. How fewer books will be published and less money spent on them thus it will be harder for writers to make a living. I’m not actually convinced things are as bad as all that. Besides I don’t think it matters […]

  19. That’s Just How Things are . . .

  20. Much Yay

  21. Today is L-H day

    I have booked five lindy hop lessons with one of the studios Frankie Manning once taught at. Today at 4pm I have my first lesson. I am afraid. Very afraid. If you don’t hear from me by tomorrow, you’ll know what happened. Remember me fondly! And now I am off to hear many eleven year […]

  22. Many things

    I have many many many posts in various states of undress, which I cannot get to because of other pressing matters. But I do not want to leave you with nothing so here is a sample of some links which have amused me: Which monkey is cuter? Go to Jennifer Lynn Barnes’ blog and vote […]

  23. Off to Melbourne

  24. JWAM reader request no. 27: Voice

  25. HTDYF in Australia

    How To Ditch Your Fairy will be published in its shiny new paperback Australian edition next month. So. Very. Soon. If you go over to the Allen & Unwin Alien Onion blog you’ll see what it looks like. And guess what? I’ll be doing a wee bit of a mini Oz book tour. I’m dead […]

  26. Appearances 2008

  27. I don’t want to skite

  28. Signed books

    I’ve had a few folks write to me to ask where they can buy signed copies of my books. The answer is there are many many places. I was just on tour, see, and wherever I went I signed books. Even if you have zero interest in whether a book is signed or not these […]

  29. Why getting out the vote is so bloody important

    Voter suppression has a long history in the United States. I am reading The Race Beat: the Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff. The book is at once gripping, appalling, and casts a clear light over the current election. All indications are that on […]

  30. Another reason I love my job

    This made my day: Get it? E. Kristin Anderson, who works at the fabulous Book People in Austin, is a parking fairy. Just like the one Charlie has in How To Ditch Your Fairy. Only, you know, not invisible. Isn’t that superb? Coincidently, me and Scott will be hanging out at Book People on 19 […]

  31. Lots and lots of fairies

  32. Tallying Olympic Medals

    The official method of figuring out who “won” the Lymps is to count who won the most gold, in which case China comes first with 51, and the USA comes second with 36. The USA, however, reckons the combined total is a better method on account of they won 110 medals altogether, while China only […]

  33. Editions

    In addition to the US edition, the adventures of Reason, Tom and Jay-Tee (listed in order of their first appearance, not of how much I like them) were also available in the countries listed below. All sales (except the Australian) were made by the fabulous Whitney Lee of The Fielding Agency. If you have rights […]

  34. Editions

    Rights inquiries about How To Ditch Your Fairy should go to my agent: Jill Grinberg of Jill Grinberg Literary Management jill AT grinbergliterary DOT com How To Ditch Your Fairy is published by Allen & Unwin in Australia. How To Ditch Your Fairy was published by Bertelsmann Jugendbuch Verlag in Germany. They also publish the […]

  35. More HTDYF reviews

    I may have mentioned that Leilani Mitchell of the New York Liberty looks pretty much exactly how I imagined Charlie, the protag of How To Ditch Your Fairy, looking. And she’s a point guard—just like Charlie! How perfect is that? So here is a Leilani photo taken by Bruce Yeung to adorn the most recent […]

  36. “I don’t really understand the beastly internet”

  37. Contributors

    Brian Attebery is the author of Decoding Gender in Science Fiction and many other critical works. He co-edited, with Ursula K. Le Guin and Karen Joy Fowler, The Norton Book of Science Fiction. Some of Brian’s writing is online: “American Studies: A Not So Unscientific Method,” from American Quarterly 1996, “Metafictions: Stories of Reading” from […]

  38. A Space of Her Own: Pamela Zoline’s “The Heat Death of the Universe” by Mary E. Papke

    Pamela Zoline exploded onto the science fiction scene in 1967 with the publication of “The Heat Death of the Universe” in New Worlds, a well-known science fiction magazine then under the editorship of Michael Moorcock. An American living in London, Zoline was a twenty-six-year-old student interested in radical art and agit-prop who quickly became a […]

  39. Daughters of Earth

    Winner of the Susan Koppelman Award and the William Atheling Jr Award shortlisted for a British Science Fiction Award

    A collection of 11 key stories and set them alongside 11 new essays, written by top scholars and critics, that explore the stories’ contexts, meanings, and theoretical implications. The resulting dialogue is one of significance to critical scholarship in science fiction, and to understanding the role of feminism in its development. Organized chronologically, this anthology creates a new canon of feminist science fiction and examines the theory that addresses it.

  40. The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction

    Battle of the Sexes was shortlisted for the Peter McNamara Convenors’ Award, the William J. Atheling Award and the Hugo for Best Related Book My first book, The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction was originally my PhD thesis. It’s a look at science fiction’s engagement with sex, gender and sexuality from 1926 until the early 1970s. As we all as an examination of the early days of the James Tiptree, Jr. Award.

  41. Appearances 2003

    Every single home game of the 2003 New York Liberty Season Madison Square Garden New York, NY Description WisCon 27 The World’s Best Science Fiction Convention & the Only Feminist One 23-26 May, 2003 Madison, WI Descripton of a fabulous Wiscon moment KGB Science Fiction Reading Series 18 June, 7.00 PM Holly Black & Kelly […]

  42. Appearances 2004

    1 December 2003-29 February 2004 San Miguel de Allende Guanajuato, Mexico 14 March-14 May 2004 Sydney New South Wales, Australia 19 March 2004, 7PM Australian Brandenburg Orchestra West End Baroque City Recital Hall, Angel Place 23-26 April, 2004 Conflux The Australian National Science Fiction Convention Canberra, Australia Description 15 May-30 July 2004 New York City […]

  43. Appearances 2006

    Saturday 25 February 2006 Aurealis Awards Ceremony Brisbane, Qld Tuesday 7 March 2006, 7PM Justine Larbalestier & Scott Westerfeld Signing at Borderland Books 866 Valencia St San Francisco, California Wednesday 8 March 2006, 6PM Justine Larbalestier & Scott Westerfeld Signing at Books Inc Laurel Village 3515 California St San Francisco, California Thursday 16 March 16, […]

  44. Appearances 2007

    Saturday, 20 January 2007, 2PM Deb Abela, Michael Parker, Justine Larbalestier and Scott Westerfeld talking about their work Kinokuniya Books Galeries Victoria 500 George St, Sydney Saturday, 24 February, 2007 Humble ISD Libraries’ Teen Lit Festival 07 Guests are: Chris Crutcher, Gail Giles, Justine Larbalestier, Benjamin Alíre Sáenz, Scott Westerfeld and Chris Yambar Atascocita High […]

  45. Reviews & Awards

    Magic or Madness Winner, Andre Norton Award, 2007 Shortlisted, New South Wales Premier’s Award, Ethel Turner Prize for Young People’s Literature, 2006 “Magic or Madness . . . has everything it takes to be an instant classic for smart, curious kids who look to fantasy for more than escape—who look to fantasy literature to stretch […]

  46. Reviews

    “How to Ditch Your Fairy is more fun than popping bubble wrap.” —Steph Bowe (15 years old) “This vividly imagined story will charm readers.” —Publishers Weekly “Charlie is totally likable, smart, and sarcastic, a perfectly self-involved, insecure teen. At its core, [How To Ditch Your Fairy] is a typical coming-of-age story, but the addition of […]

  47. Bibliography

  48. Charlie haz face!

  49. New York Liberty RULE

    New York Liberty: 105 Phoenix Mercury: 72 BEST GAME EVER Without Penny Taylor the Mercury are nothing. We held them to their season low. We shut Diana Taurasi and Cappie Pondexter down. I love my team. That is all. Well, except that WE REALLY REALLY REALLY rule. Did I mention I love the New York […]

  50. Third HTDYF Review