Category Archives: Books

How to suppress women’s writing – the latest go-around

Posted on November 2, 2012 by Cora

It’s really that time of the year. Not only are we having our annual literary versus genre fiction debate and the annual “science fiction is dying” debate – no, it’s time for the annual misogyny in publishing and the doublestandard … Continue reading →

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Genre versus Literary Fiction, Round 715

Posted on October 30, 2012 by Cora

Apparently, it’s that time of the year again, for we’re having our semi-annual genre versus literary fiction debate. Oh yes, and science fiction is still dying of exhaustion as well, though that’s material for another post. This time around, the … Continue reading →

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Traffic Gridlock Linkdump

Posted on October 12, 2012 by Cora

Tonight I had to go into town for the monthly translators’ meet-up and wanted to pick up some books from an acquaintance from university beforehand. However, there was a big problem, because seven trucks crashed into each other on the … Continue reading →

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The German Book Award or Let’s all praise middle class mediocrity

Posted on October 10, 2012 by Cora

The 2012 German Book Award has been awarded to Ursula Krechel for her novel Landgericht (District Court) and it turns out that I am psychic. Yes, it’s true. I predicted last month that Ms. Krechel would win the award. But … Continue reading →

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Another German short story available – noch eine Kurzgeschichte auf Deutsch erhältlich

Posted on October 9, 2012 by Cora

In the next few days, I will go deeper into this over at Pegasus Pulp. But in short, the launch of my line of German language e-books has been surprisingly successful. Particularly the German translation of The Kiss of the … Continue reading →

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Double Awards Analysis

Posted on October 7, 2012 by Cora

The winners of the 2012 British Fantasy Awards were announced last weekend. Jo Walton’s Among Others won in the best novel category, beating out George R.R. Martin’s and Stephen King’s latest offerings among others (yes, this is a pun). The … Continue reading →

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Tarzan, Sherlock Holmes, Harry Potter, Shreck and The Persuaders and adapting globalized pop culture to local tastes

Posted on September 29, 2012 by Cora

The Jewish interest webzine The algemeiner (The spelling is theirs) has an interesting article about the Israeli obsession with Tarzan (found via Charles Tan). Apparently, the Tarzan obsession in Israel was so great once upon a time that plenty of … Continue reading →

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Stories from “Murder in the Family” now available as standalones

Posted on September 27, 2012 by Cora

A few weeks ago, I announced Murder in the Family, a collection of short crime fiction. Sales haven’t been all that great, so I decided to offer four of the stories in the collection in standalone editions for 99 cents … Continue reading →

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George R.R. Martin interviewed on German TV – and a bit about Fifty Shades of Grey and its influence on the romance genre

Posted on September 25, 2012 by Cora

This made my day yesterday. German literary critic Dennis Scheck interviews George R.R. Martin. Watch out for Martin talking about readers complaining about sex scenes, but not about graphic violence. Dennis Scheck also points out that A Song of Ice … Continue reading →

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Oktoberfest Linkdump

Posted on September 23, 2012 by Cora

Even though it’s still September, the original Munich Oktoberfest started today with the traditional tapping of the first beer keg by the mayor of Munich and also kicked off the autumn fair season in Germany. Personally, I prefer our own … Continue reading →

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