Connie Willis Guest Blogging on Suvudu

Connie Willis will be guest blogging on Suvudu and will also be answering questions in the comments there. Follow this link to the first post. This blog entry will be updated with links to subsequent posts on Suvudu.

 

Connie Willis talks Blackout (Part 1)

Connie Willis talks Blackout (Part 2)

Connie Willis talks Blackout (Part 3)

Connie Willis talks Blackout (Part 4)

Connie Willis talks Blackout (Part 5)

Connie Willis talks Blackout (Part 6)

Connie Willis talks Blackout (Part 7)

UNC Book Reception Article and Photos

The UNC Mirror (the student paper at the Univeristy of Northern Colorado) has an article on the book signing held yesterday (Feb 9th).  Thanks to UNC photographer Barry LaPoint for the photos of Connie.

Pictures by UNC Photographer Barry LaPoint

Blackout Tour Links Roundup

Articles and Interviews

The Greeley Tribune talks to Connie about her donating her papers to the University of Northern Colorado.

The Reporter Herald - Article about Connie's donation

Tor,.com - Blackout article

Subterranean Press - Short article with cover of limited edition of Blackout

San Francisco Chronicle - Article about the book and Connie.

I09 - Article about the book's release and an article about the donation of her papers to UNC

Reviews

Val's Random Comments - Review of Blackout


Book Page.com - Review of Blackout

Seattle Times - Book review

MAVENity - Review

Lit Soup - Short Review

Journal Sentinel Online - Book Review

More posts (added on 12/13/10)
A short article about Connie and the time travel books on Okie Reads.

A report on the Borderlands Books signing from Book Love Affair.

Announcements

NW MediaArts Writers Workshop at the Seattle SF Awards Weekend: June 26th - June 27
Connie will be doing a writer's workshop at the Richard Hugo House on Sunday, June 27th.

Mysterious Galaxy Signing Pictures!

Connie stopped at Mysterious Galaxy in San Diego on Wednesday, Feb 3rd. 

Thanks to Patrick Heffernan for the pictures!

Mysterious Galaxy blacked out one of their windows for the signing.

Christine Van Such introducing Connie

Connie chatting with the audience

A view of the crowd

SOme recent News Articles, reviews and interviews

Blackout was released yesterday and with the book tour now underway, there's a lot of articles turning up online. Here's a sample of them:

Nerdvana Article

San Francisco Chronicle Interview

Reviews

January Magazine

SF Reviews.net

Io9

Connie Reads from Blackout

Blackout is Coming

We now have a full update on conniewillis.net, including the schedule for the Blackout Book Tour, some new pictures (including the one here taken by Kyle Cassidy at WorldCon in Montreal this year, and more.

Random House now has an excerpt from Blackout available online here.

And we also have the following message from Connie:


A MESSAGE FROM CONNIE WILLIS - Jan 2010

I'm finally done with my two-volume time travel to the Blitz novel, BLACKOUT-ALL CLEAR! Oh, frabjous day! Calloo, callay!

BLACKOUT comes out February second, and ALL CLEAR will be out in the autumn. And I'm done, I'm done, I'm done!

Okay, okay, I know I said I was done with the Blitz novel in the fall of 2008. And last spring. And this November. And it's still not done. I still have the copyedited manuscript and the galleys to do for the second volume, ALL CLEAR, and there are days when I think I'll never be done, that like Zeno's frog, I will just keep halving the distance to completion without ever getting there.

However, I am sort of done, and the first volume, BLACKOUT, is coming out in February. Honest. I've seen the cover, the reviewers' copies have been sent out, and assorted booksignings have been set up. (See schedule above.) And, as my daughter so aptly put it, "If you're hit by a bus now, you don't have to worry about some hack finishing your novel."

And I must be done because I A) am sleeping much better; B) am several inches taller, due to that giant albatross no longer hanging around my neck; and C) my family says I have been much nicer lately. I have also been beginning to think about other projects. Every time I've had a glimmer of a story idea over the last few years, I've had to firmly squelch it because I had no time to work on anything else, but now I can actually write other stuff, and the ideas have begun bubbling up. There's a story I've been wanting to write about a robot who wants to be a Rockette, and one about Satchel Paige, who was the greatest baseball pitcher who ever lived, but who never got to play in the Majors till he was past his prime. And I can't wait to get started on my Roswell--Area 51--alien-abduction--romantic comedy novel, tentatively titled The Road to Roswell.

But first I need to dig out from the mess I made while writing the novel, answer six years' worth of e-mails, send out my Christmas letter (I know it's already January!), catch up on six years' worth of laundry, and find out what Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin have been up to. (Surely they've gotten over their initial dislike of President Obama by now.)

I also plan to catch up on my reading. I just finished The Chimes, one of Charles Dickens' Christmas novels, and it was terrific. It was also clearly the prototype of It's a Wonderful Life, right down to the suicide attempt, which I did not know. Right now I'm reading Screwball (about the great movie comedies of the thirties) and can't wait to start UFOs and the Murder of Marilyn Monroe, which I got for Christmas, and which promises to tell me just how she was "murdered by U.S. government officials because she knew too much about the Roswell UFO coverup!" Which I also did not know.

In the meantime, I'm looking forward to seeing you--I hope--at one of my book tour stops and signings or at a convention soon.A belated Merry Christmas-Hanukkah-Solstice-Kwanzaa-Holiday Season, a Deliriously Happy New Year, and Good Reading!

Connie Willis, Jan 2010