Marly on hiatus

In the way of an apology: I am drowning and not waving, having come back from NYC ("Beastly Bride" reading, visits with writers and editors, lovely mini-Yaddo reunion with Maggie Paley and Stacey Engels) and then leaped in the busy-ness of prom weekend. Graduation is coming closer with great swiftness, and much must be done between now and weekend after next: college paperwork and so on (yes, thank you, financial donations are always appreciated by the mother with multiple children in college); various events; some work on my four upcoming books (madness); talks to polish for my stay at Hollins as writer-in-residence and for my stint at "Shared Worlds"; 16 manuscripts to comment on for Hollins; need to finish and show my current manuscript (a NYC promise--rash, rash!) and more.

So no, I am not writing you or you, not here and not anywhere else. Not for a while. If you're in Roanoke or Chapel Hill or Cullowhee or Spartanburg or Cooperstown, I might just see you...

"The Beastly Bride" NYC Reading

Reading from "The Beastly Bride," an anthology from the mythic fiction series edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling

June 7 Monday
7-8 p.m.

McNally Jackson Bookstore
52 Prince St.
(between Lafayette & Mulberry)
New York, NY 10012

Readers: Jeffrey Ford, Carol Emshwiller, Rick Bowes, Nan Fry, Gregory Frost, Steve Berman, Rick Bowes, and me

Host: editor Ellen Datlow.
She edited SCIFICTION and Omni and has won a raft of awards.

"The Beastly Bride" interview

Charles Tan is interviewing every writer with a story in Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling's The Beastly Bride anthology. Some are already up at sfsignal.com, and today is mine: here.

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Comments are off because there's a place for comments below the article.

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If you want more, slide down to the next post and then over to the new Clarkesworld interview.

Interview at "Clarkesworld"

Image: I picked this image from the Clarkesworld covers because it's a sort of foliate head, and I have a mania for foliate heads and even a book coming out called The Foliate Head. The artist is Adam Chowles of the U.K.

If you pop over to the current issue of Clarkesworld, you can find a rather long interview with me. The interviewer is Jeremy L. C. Jones, who I will be meeting when I mosey down to Spartanburg for Shared Worlds. An odd thing is that his grandparents lived in the house across the street from me, and his father grew up one door down from that house. His grandfather was a famous figure here in Cooperstown. Meanwhile, I was born in South Carolina. It strikes me that Jer ought to live where I live, and I ought to live where he lives. But life is strange, and so is Clarkesworld.

Here's the jump.

Comments are turned off because I'm sure Jer and Clarkesworld deserve them more than I do! You'll find a place to log comments at the bottom of the interview. Thanks, Mr. Jones . . .