Rosemary Kirstein

@rosemarykirstein.bsky.social

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You are so very welcome! The Steerswoman series is absolutely original and FANTASTIC! So happy to hear that you have the rights back and have them back in print! This is the best of the underground hits...it should be read everywhere! One of the great crimes of publishing. Dropping books.

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

An embroidery hoop containing a sewn landscape from above. It shows a forest on the right, a line of fire and charred ground with smoke on the left. The smoke is felted wool.

Aha! I'm 'a snatch up these books! Wait -- I already have them, and read them. Okay, your turn. What a lovely twist on magic and gods -- plus, excellent prose, strong characters, spot-on pacing. Yeah, Hugo-worthy.

Max Gladstone@maxgladstone.bsky.social · 4w ago

Want a deal on some books? In honor of the Craft Wars being up for the Hugo Award, these are $2.99 in ebook for a limited time, on all retailers: THREE PARTS DEAD (bookshop.org/p/books/thre...) TWO SERPENTS RISE (bookshop.org/p/books/two-...) DEAD COUNTRY (bookshop.org/p/books/dead...)

If you want yet another angle on the texts, I've got an ongoing free online translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight that IMO does better than most at capturing the humor and wry irony of the original while keeping the alliterative verse form. alliteration.net/poetry/sggk/

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Translating the Middle English poem into modern alliterative verse.

This ongoing translation by Paul D. Deane takes the classic Middle English poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by the anonymous Pearl Poet and sets it in modern alliterative verse.

alliteration.net

Today! My first novel in six years! Everybody's Perfect! Delany once titled a story "A Tale of Plagues and Carnivals." But what if more plague and more carnivals? What if Venice but less substantial? And more magical? With immigration and friendship? It's a bit weird but I hope you like it anyway.

Everybody's Perfect, artfully arranged on an antique map of Italy with part of my toy Venetian bookshelf and a cool pen that was a gift from Novacon when I was GoH in 2013. Photo, concept, and artful arrangement by my daughter Alex Walton, and the map is hers too.