Bargains!

Just sayin', people, but from now through to July 6th, all my books are 50% off at the Book View Cafe bookstore, just to celebrate my winning the Lambda with Bitter Waters. Which is of course not a BVC book, but hey. Go me.

The code is Chaz-50, but actually the discount is just being applied automatically to everybody sans need of it. Buy early, buy often. Tell your friends.

Reviewed! In Locus! Again!

Rich Horton has reviewed the latest issue of Lightspeed, the "Queers Destroy SF!" special, in Locus. Unlike Lois Tilton's recent review of the same issue, Rich's is not apparently available to read free online; and it's rude to quote the entirety of what he said about my story, "The Astrakhan, the Homburg and the Red Red Coal", besides being self-serving; but a money-quote is quite legit. So try this:

This is a very well-told story, using the old ‘‘bar tale’’ format nicely, with some really effective SFnal ideas

That last bit is my actual favourite. Sometimes I have to remind myself quite forcefully that the Mars Imperial project totally counts as SF; sometimes other people notice for me.

[Oh, and if you want to read the story itself, it's online for free, here; and Rahul Kanakia interviewed me about the project here.]