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Let’s begin with some links:
Hooray for Linda Addison, whose How to Recognize a Demon Has Become Your Friend received a Bram Stoker Award from the World Horror Association!
The ToC for Steampunk Revolutions!
More discussion of Hunger Games (the last link is to a review that focuses on the movie from an indigenous, social justice oriented perspective)
Here’s a link to “The Inconstant Moon” by Alaya Dawn Johnson.
Now, onto the review.
Neesha  Meminger’s Into the [...]


This update is mostly signal boosts. Next time, I’ll have a book review up for Neesha Meminger’s Into the Wise Dark!
This children’s bookstore needs a makeover!
Nnedi won a BEST NOVEL World Fantasy Award for Who Fears Death!
Andrea Hairston is WisCon Guest of Honor AND a Tiptree Award winner!
Nisi Shawl has several short stories and articles [...]


I Got Your Book: Signal Boosts

I’m still reading — and enjoying Moondancer Drake’s Ancestral Magic. Until I get the chance to do an actual review, here’s a couple of fabulous signal boosts. :)
Ahem!
Delux_Vivens linked to Inside the Favelas
Linda Addison has a new collection out, entitled How to Recognize a Demon Has Become Your Friend
Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop continues to wow 
Nisi [...]


This here is a new series designed to boost the profile of SF authors of color. First up, we have a few signal boosts:
Tobias Buckell is looking for help to fund Apocalypse Ocean, a Sly Mongoose novel.
Ephemere is nearly done with Kandila 
An excerpt from the horror collection Let’s Play White
 
A series of SF short films 
 
Lisa [...]


I meant to post this yesterday, but work things got in the way. Then the ever-wonderful Cleolinda posted the long, long post I was going to write and said everything I was going to say. So I’ll keep mine short. I suggest you click over to Cleolinda’s blog for the full story. Seriously.
A few days [...]


In the wake of the Fuck You Jim Butcher post a lot of the “It’s fantasy, don’t get offended” rhetoric is circulating again. Nothing new, but I’m a little perplexed by the argument that using real racial slurs (like Injun or Tar Baby) for fictional characters means that those real slurs are [...]


Newer readers of this blog may not be aware that, in addition to being angry and black and female, I also write fiction. Science fiction and fantasy, in particular. Several years ago I attended a 6-week intensive writing workshop called Clarion West, which is an organization that brings together promising new writers with amazing and [...]


(crossposted from my personal blog)
The Safer Space for POC at WisCon 35 is a room set aside for con attendees of color to have in-group discussions about issues surrounding speculative fiction, feminism, fandom, and convention-going. By issues I do not mean “problems” (just to be clear). There are some conversations that [...]


Brazilian fantasy action flick Besouro available to watch at this link
If you need a reminder… the story goes… As essentially an action movie set in 1920s Bahia, and based on the life of a legendary capoeirista from Bahia who uses the power of Candomble to fight the harsh conditions which, even post-abolition, the black population [...]


People often tell me that they had no idea from reading posts here on the ABW that I also write fiction and have a secret second life. And I often forget that people here may not even follow my other blog, so I don’t always cross post certain news that I really should. In an [...]