(re)Visions buzz, schedule whiplash, links

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Kate, my amazing and fabulous editor at Candlemark & Gleam, passed along this really lovely advance review of (re)Visions: Alice that makes me very happy indeed.

Other things that make me happy: you still have fourteen days to pre-order (re)Visions: Alice via Kickstarter. This may be one of the few opportunities folks can get an edition signed by all four of us without air travel, as well as buying the book with minimal cuts going to various intermediaries and vendors.

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Project whiplash has been followed by schedule whiplash. Some of you who know me have already heard me crowing excitedly about my gig at NecroPlanet (WARNING: site makes noies). Starting Thursday I'll be spending four nights a week scaring the pants out of people for money.

As somebody who starts humming about the Most Wonderful Time of the Year as soon as the bats and skull garlands come out at the garden center, I can't think of a more ideal way to spend October. The price, though, is giving up getting up at 4 AM in exchange for going to bed after midnight four nights a week.

Writing at the end of the day requires a different kind of discipline, and if last night is any indicator, this is going to be quite an undertaking, no pun intended.

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As promised, links!

- This is about 10 days old, but Seanan McGuire has written a thoughtful, solid reminder about the role print books play in getting words to people in poverty, and why we shouldn't be so eager to kill print.

- At Comics Alliance, a fantastic post on comics authors doing it wrong in the new 52 -- Specifically, Catwoman and Red Hood and the Outlaws -- and how this reflects a consistent problem in terms of how women are portrayed in comics. (In contrast, I'm hearing really fantastic things about Wonder Woman and Batgirl, which means I'll be picking these both up as soon as is possible.)

- The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has, at the suggestion of State Senator John Whitmire, yanked death row prisoners' right to request their last meal. I can't decide which appalls me more: the fact so many people bereft of human decency seem to be involved in criminal justice in Texas, or the fact that they're so swift to model their own behavior on those they'd see dead.

- Same topic, different angle: An Indefensible Punishment.

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