Category Archives: Books

Yet another e-book announcement

Posted on July 16, 2011 by Cora

In addition to Amazon.com, Amazon UK and Amazon Germany, Pegasus Pulp e-books are now also available at XinXii. What is XinXii? XinXii is a European e-book retailer based in Germany. They’re still fairly new, but growing. Unlike the various Amazons, … Continue reading →

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More on the avalanche, science fictional childhood, dark YA and unfair e-book pricing

Posted on July 14, 2011 by Cora

The Strunk and White avalanche is slowly ebbing, though I still get about ten times as many viewers as on a good day. Interestingly, the regional distribution of website visitors hasn’t changed all that much, only that there are a … Continue reading →

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The Strunk and White Aftermath – and a linkdump

Posted on July 13, 2011 by Cora

The Strunk and White avalanche is still continuing. July 12 got only 19 views less than July 11. Links are popping up in various places as well, including one in a Making Light open thread in this comment. Meanwhile, absolutely … Continue reading →

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Point of view, the T-V distinction and the Ingeborg Bachmann prize

Posted on July 12, 2011 by Cora

This is the post I had drafted and intended to post yesterday, before that Strunk and White business diverted my attention. It is long and full of technical details regarding linguistics, narrative perspective and contemporary German literature: The 2011 Ingeborg … Continue reading →

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Whatever happened to… – and the magic of cartoons

Posted on July 11, 2011 by Cora

First of all, I’d like to point to Shape No. 8, the newest Pegasus Pulp e-book again. Steph Swainston is one of those authors where I sometimes wonder “Whatever happened to her?” When The Year of Our War came out, … Continue reading →

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Another story available in e-book form

Posted on July 10, 2011 by Cora

I’ve got another short story available in e-book form. Courier duty is not really one of spy extraordinaire Carrie Ragnarok’s top ten assignments. Ferrying an object from point A to point B – that’s stressful, but not very exciting. Not … Continue reading →

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A Plagalanche, toxic Westeros, responses to romance bashing, rape in fantasy, redneck bashing and Dallas remade

Posted on July 10, 2011 by Cora

Yesterday’s plagiarism post has broken the visitor record for this blog, largely due to a link from the VroniPlag press review. The VroniPlag press review also offers a link to this Spiegel Online article about the Althusmann case. Turns out … Continue reading →

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Nazis on the Bookshelf

Posted on July 9, 2011 by Cora

I really seem to be determined to violate Godwin’s Law today, because after the garden fascism in my last post, I now tackle unexpected Nazis on the bookshelf. Over at the Pegasus Pulp site, I have a post explaining the … Continue reading →

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Romances are bad for women – again

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Cora

There seems to be another go-around in the eternal debate of “romance fiction is bad for women, because it might lead them to have unrealistic expectations of real life relationships”. Unrealistic expectations in this context often means “expecting to be … Continue reading →

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No blog today – well, almost

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Cora

Even though this is the first week of my summer holidays, it is turning out to be unusually busy with the newleaf reading yesterday, the monthly translators’ meet-up today (I met the guy who does the voice-over translation of important … Continue reading →

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