Hello, all! The newsletter I’d planned for today will have to wait for another day, since my trusty laptop is, for all intents and purposes, dead. It’s been faltering for a while now, but this morning it just wouldn’t turn on at all. I spent an hour on the phone with an Apple specialist this morning and am taking it to an authorized service center when they open, but things don’t look good. It’s a 2016 model which means it has had a fairly good run, but damn— terrible timing. I’ll hopefully be back next week with thoughts on Author’s Equity, the new publishing startup that promises to ~fix publishing.
WHAT I’M READING
I finished Cixin Liu’s The Three Body Problem and immediately dove into its sequel, The Dark Forest. The Dark Forest is a little denser than the first in the series, but still fascinating and propulsive. I know I’m about ten years late to this series but I’m so glad I picked them up, finally. In one of the roundups about the Hugos disaster someone recommended Megan Walsh’s book The Subplot: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters, which I devoured on the way to a PWHL game (Go New York! Why don’t we have team names yet?) Walsh deftly dissects trends in Chinese literature, examining the ways in which authors engage with and resist the pressures put on them by the CCP. I came out of it with a very long reading list.
HOUSEKEEPING
As I said above, hopefully we’ll return to our regularly scheduled programming next week. In the meantime ,My first novel, Marrying In, is available for purchase on Kindle, Nook, and Kobo, and is coming soon to iBooks. If you’ve read it, consider leaving a review—that helps me and the book in the long run!
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