Connie Willis News tidbits

Doomsday Book is 2008's One Book, One Batavia selection.
Batavia, Illinois, has chosen Doomsday Book as the One Book, One Batavia 2008 selection. As part of this selection, Connie Willis will be making two appearances in Batavia on March 20th. One at noon at the Batavia Public Library for the Books Between Bites lunch session and that night at the Batavia High School at 7 pm. Full details on on the One Book, One Batavia page.

Starship Sofa Podcast
The works of Connie Willis are featured on the new edition of the Starshp Sofa podcast, #80
This week the StarShipSofa smacks into on of the brightest stars in SF and that is Connie Willis. Join Tony C Smith on his own personal voyage of discovery into all things Connie Willis.

Connie Willis.net Update

I've made some updates to the Connie Willis.net website with more to come soon.

Recent interviews include the following:

Rocky Mountain News

Finding Wonderland blog

Subterranean Press is doing a second printing of The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories and is now shipping the limited edition (mine looks very nice). Note that some copies of the first edition are still available on Amazon and likely still at Camelot Books (who also have the limited edition available as well as the other Subterranean Press books). All Seated on the Ground is now at the printers and should be shipping soon.

Marble Arch collection named one of the Best Books of 2007 by Publisher's Weekly in the Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror category. The full list consists of the following books:

Inferno, edited by Ellen Datlow

Acacia, by David Anthony Durham

Llario: The Lion's Eye, by Mary Gentle

In War Times, by Kathleen Ann Goonan

Bright of the Sky: Book One of Entire and the Rose, by Kay Kenyon

The Name of the Wind: Book One, by Patrick Rothfuss

The Winds of Marble Arch, by Connie Willis

There's lots of bloggers reviewing the Marble Arch collection including these that I've spotted via Google Alerts:

Polymath At Large, who reviews Marble Arch in segments - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5

The Daily Camera review of Marble Arch

Other bloggers mentioning Connie include:

Read Write Believe - On Tell an author you care day.

VCMW's Livejournal

The Winds of Marble Arch Collection Blogs

With the impending release of The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories by Connie Willis from Subterranean Press, there's a lot of blog entries and other notices online about it. I'll try to keep note of a lot of them here in the entry.

Subterranean Press has indicated that they ended up ordering short on the trade hardback edition and they expect it to sell out soon of their copies. They do have the limited and letter editions as well.

Locus Magazine Review by Gary K. Wolfe

Colleen Mondor review at Chasingray.com

Katie Knapp Review at Rambles.net

More to come...

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