So, who’s been following the recent debacle about a Bloomsbury book with the cover image of a white girl to illustrate the story of a black girl? Liar by Justine Larbalestier was due to hit shelves in November with the cover image of a white teenage girl (left). One problem: the protagonist is black.
The news [...]
Rhi with red hair
I had my hair cut a couple of weeks ago and have now finally completed the second-half of the process. Here’s a picture that should show the detail of the cut and colour.
It’s multiple layers, with a base colour of auburn red and some streaks of vibrant red and copper in it. [...]
Borderland has been reissued by OUP with a new jacket.
If you missed it the first time around, now’s your chance. Two of the sequels, Shadowland and Outland will also be reissued later in the year.
Making friends doesn’t come easily to newcomer Zoë. She’s always been the outsider, watching the ‘in’ crowd from afar and longing [...]
The inaugural Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Children’s Book Award is for an unpublished book for eight to 12-year-olds that reflects cultural diversity either through the story content or the ethnic origins of the author. The first award went to Cristy Burne for Takeshita Demons.
Yesterday, the 29th of April, was the final judging meeting and the ceremony for the Arthur C. Clarke award. The judging meeting took all afternoon and although all details are confidential I cna confirm the chair of the judges comment that “it was a particularly intense and long shortlist meeting”. In the end the winner, [...]
Yesterday I submitted the first completed draft of my latest novel, Ghost of a Chance, to my publishers (OUP). It comes in at just over 100,000 words but this will be reduced in the edit. I am (tentatively) pleased with it.
I have been looking back through my notes and see that I was at the [...]
If there’s anyone left in the world who doesn’t know that I have the great honour to be a judge for the Arthur C. Clarke award in 2009, here’s a timely reminder. The judges (shown here and listed from left to right) are:
Pauline Morgan (for SF Crowsnest.com)
Ruth O’Reilly (for the British Science Fiction Association)
Robert [...]
If you were wondering why I haven’t updated recently, it’s not because I’ve been slacking off! I’ve been jetsetting (and train- and car-setting) around the place doing various events.
On Friday the 27th of March I was a guest at the Suffolk Schools Library Service Book Mastermind Competition where I watched local students compete to be [...]
I have been given a Blogging Sisterhood Award by Scribble City Central. Lucy Coats writes: “Rhiannon has directed me to all sorts of wonderful places I never would have discovered without her. And she really (no, I mean REALLY) knows her stuff on the book front. A goldmine of interesting information. At least it [...]
February 19, 2009 – 2:34 pm
I’ve just discovered that a category search takes you to every blog with that category, not just mine. This is rather irritating. I have a support enquiry in with wordpress but if you’re getting surprising search results, that’s why.
ETA: Apparently I needed to turn on the categories widget. Have now done this and all is [...]
