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Finally switched over to my new host. Finally got all of my data over to said new host. New host restored Wordpress databases! Love new host to death so far. DNS propagation went smoothly, yay! Upgrade to Wordpress 2.5 went smoothly, yay! The WP future post function now finally woks for the first time evar, yay, yay, yay! Put in a bunch of new plugins so I can pretend to be as awesome as Mary Robinette, yay! Completely forgot that the crossposter doesn’t work with WP 2.5, boo. So no one on LJ saw this post from yesterday, boo. This will be my first test of the upgrade, yay! My comments now have avatars, yay! I decided to upload my own avatars for that, so went with people of color from SF TV shows and movies. I think I got everyone from the TV shows I watch, and I have Will Smith + some Matrix people. But I need more! Suggestions? In the comments, yay! Which can now be threaded, yay! WordPress is awesome, yay!

The Latest Thing

This weekend is full of many writerly goings on, including a reading at KGB bar that isn’t the Fantastic Fiction one. On Saturday (February 9) three members of my writing group, Altered Fluid, will read as part of a special night of speculative fiction in Duct.org’s monthly Trumpet Fiction series. Eugene Myers, Matt Kressel, and Alaya Dawn Johnson are all terrific writers and you should come hear them be terrific.

WHEN: Saturday, February 9 @ 7:00pm
WHERE: KGB Bar
85 East 4th Street (between 2nd and 3rd Avenues)
New York, NY 10003

Afterwards we’re going out for food and drinks and all in attendance are welcome to come.

Interfictions Reading October 30th

Interfictions is a one-of-a-kind anthology published by the Interstitial Arts Foundation and Small Beer Press. Between its covers, nineteen writers dig into the imaginative spaces between conventional genres — realistic and fantastical, scholarly and poetic, personal and political. This evening at McNally Robinson, three of those writers join editor Delia Sherman to read from their boundary-crossing stories. K. Tempest Bradford is a widely published author of fantastical short stories and a prolific blogger. Matt Cheney is a fiction writer and critic who maintains the blog The Mumpsimus, focused on reviews and interviews with authors in science fiction genres. Veronica Schanoes’ work has appeared in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Trunk Stories, and Jabberwocky. Join us for an evening of unclassifiable fiction.
(McNally Robinson events page)

When: Tuesday, October 30 at 7.00 PM.

Where: McNally Robinson
52 Prince St.
(between Lafayette and Mulberry)
New York, NY 10012

I’ll read from Black Feather again and see if I can’t come up with an interesting way to read it this time. If you’re going to be in NYC on the 30th, drop by!

Write-a-thon Week 1 & KGB Reading

Write-a-thon Update Week 1

I reached my Week 1 goal of revising a story! I revised Imperative, which I will now send out to some suitable publication. Excitement :)

To everyone who is sponsoring me, a big Thank You. I hope to keep up this momentum for the next five weeks.

If you’d still like to sponsor me, please see this post for details. You can also bid on a Tuckerization in one of my stories.

KGB Reading

Though I was very, very nervous, the reading at KGB went well. All of the readers and stories were awesome. And I was excited to meet Matthew Cheney for the first time.

Some pictures:

also by ellen datlow

photos by matt kressel

Check out these photosets to see more: Juliet, Ellen, Matt

Interfictions Reading @ KGB

KGB Fantastic Fiction Series, presented by Ellen Datlow and Gavin J. Grant (KGB Bar, 85 East 4th St, New York, NY) hosts a reading from Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing.

Readers: K. Tempest Bradford, Rachel Pollack, Veronica Schanoes, and Catherynne M. Valente.

Date: 20 June, 7:00 pm