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The New Decameron
So Jo Walton, Maya Chhabra, and Lauren Schiller have organized a collection of stories to be read during this time of plague. The frame story, wonderfully written by Jo, is plague-themed, but the individual stories are not. I'm a day or two behind, but everything I've read has been brilliant. I was wildly excited to read a chapter of the new Steerswoman book, and I'm eagerly awaiting a new story by Marissa Lingen. I heard Jo read the first chapter of her upcoming book Or What You Will at Minicon last year. It is the first thing inside the frame, and as amazing as it was when I heard it. I'd never read Leah Bobet's work before now, but now I have to get her new book when it comes out and look for previous work as well. Max Gladstone wrote a new story, too, whee!
And, um, well, I have included in this seriously dazzling project a short excerpt from the novel about astronomical werewolves I've been poking at when I have to take a break from Going North.
Here is the link:
https://www.patreon.com/m/4119564/posts
Please note that although the project is posted on Patreon, it is free to read. If you do subscribe, you get the chapters in email, but there's no actual need to do so. If you do, half the money goes to the contributors and the other half to Cittadini del Mondo, a charity in Rome that runs a library and clinic for refugees.
I recommend ALL of it, but since I haven't quite been reading things in order, I guess you could look at my bit first and then backtrack. It's better not, because the framing story is so excellent, and I'm going to try not to do that again.
I had some difficulty figuring out what to offer for this collection. I almost never write short stories and have none waiting about for the right place. I've read or put on Patreon or both a large percentage of the interesting, extractable bits from Going North and the beginnings of two other novels. The section in the New Decameron is the second scene rather than the opening one of what was intended as a short story but is clearly actually a novel, provisionally called The Wolf Far Hence.
I hope, if you have the time and inclination to look, that you enjoy it.
Pamela
And, um, well, I have included in this seriously dazzling project a short excerpt from the novel about astronomical werewolves I've been poking at when I have to take a break from Going North.
Here is the link:
https://www.patreon.com/m/4119564/posts
Please note that although the project is posted on Patreon, it is free to read. If you do subscribe, you get the chapters in email, but there's no actual need to do so. If you do, half the money goes to the contributors and the other half to Cittadini del Mondo, a charity in Rome that runs a library and clinic for refugees.
I recommend ALL of it, but since I haven't quite been reading things in order, I guess you could look at my bit first and then backtrack. It's better not, because the framing story is so excellent, and I'm going to try not to do that again.
I had some difficulty figuring out what to offer for this collection. I almost never write short stories and have none waiting about for the right place. I've read or put on Patreon or both a large percentage of the interesting, extractable bits from Going North and the beginnings of two other novels. The section in the New Decameron is the second scene rather than the opening one of what was intended as a short story but is clearly actually a novel, provisionally called The Wolf Far Hence.
I hope, if you have the time and inclination to look, that you enjoy it.
Pamela