tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-311450632024-03-19T18:29:26.098+11:00Text DashA blog by Sara CreasySara Creasyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09398837332152581447noreply@blogger.comBlogger246125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31145063.post-12354922492037790282021-04-29T13:37:00.004+10:002021-05-01T13:45:21.070+10:00New blog<p>I've set up a new Wordpress site and transferred this blog over there (in the process, every apostrophe had a slash inserted before it - so now I have to manually remove them all!). </p><p>The new website is for my contemporary family drama - the Wynter Wild series - and I'll leave this one up for posterity as I wrote it while my science fiction books were in the works and in print.</p><p>The website is <a href="https://saracreasy.com">saracreasy.com</a>, and the new blog is at <a href="https://saracreasy.com/blog">saracreasy.com/blog</a>. You can follow the blog by submitting your email right there on the page, to receive notifications of new posts.</p><p>Don't forget to subscribe to my newsletter - now powered by Revue, which so far has made things a whole lot easier. Click the logo below to get to the subscribe page:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.getrevue.co/profile/saracreasy" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_HZ8tsmU61H39zM0tNIk0Ey8aaphQ-BHtD_tFmUtoJMFQ4G7_YOciLGadnv14fFxBr6RNwM_8RIdnlH5C1tcnfFHn2r4ReEcRfRYcJoOActChCMGeQnbFXy7EBBdKVK0QtWkGDA/w200-h200/WildWord+Logo+sm.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Sara Creasyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09398837332152581447noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31145063.post-1309090424174929742019-03-23T14:30:00.000+11:002019-03-23T14:30:03.869+11:00Sunburnt Stars: A Conversation That Happened #11<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Sara Creasyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09398837332152581447noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31145063.post-75196364970388586632019-03-16T14:30:00.000+11:002019-03-16T14:30:04.057+11:00Sunburnt Stars: A Conversation That Happened #22<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Sara Creasyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09398837332152581447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31145063.post-30873963481995018122019-03-09T14:30:00.000+11:002019-03-09T14:30:00.279+11:00Sunburnt Stars: A Conversation That Happened #13<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Sara Creasyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09398837332152581447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31145063.post-11769513071303792402019-03-02T14:30:00.000+11:002019-03-02T14:30:09.893+11:00Sunburnt Stars: A Conversation That Happened #10<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Sara Creasyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09398837332152581447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31145063.post-69105774697444130002019-02-23T14:30:00.000+11:002019-02-23T14:30:00.345+11:00Sunburnt Stars: A Conversation That Happened #3<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Sara Creasyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09398837332152581447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31145063.post-54668537374372043952019-02-18T14:30:00.000+11:002019-02-18T14:30:01.778+11:00Sunburnt Stars: A Conversation That Happened #2This is my nephew, Tom.<br />
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<br />Sara Creasyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09398837332152581447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31145063.post-14200670489648328282019-02-09T14:30:00.000+11:002019-02-09T14:30:00.941+11:00Sunburnt Stars: A Conversation That Happened #1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
It's true, I'm biased against semi-colons.</div>
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<br />Sara Creasyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09398837332152581447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31145063.post-88044237882714234322019-02-02T14:30:00.000+11:002019-02-02T14:30:01.184+11:00Sunburnt Stars: A Conversation That Happened #23<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Sara Creasyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09398837332152581447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31145063.post-58788264061498192462019-01-26T14:30:00.000+11:002019-01-26T14:30:01.240+11:00Sunburnt Stars: A Conversation That Happened #16<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Sara Creasyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09398837332152581447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31145063.post-52881187046309724942019-01-19T14:30:00.000+11:002019-01-19T14:30:07.876+11:00Sunburnt Stars: A Conversation That Happened #4<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Sara Creasyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09398837332152581447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31145063.post-63594670691657027302019-01-10T14:30:00.000+11:002019-01-10T14:30:05.441+11:00Sunburnt Stars: A Conversation That Happened #15<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Sara Creasyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09398837332152581447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31145063.post-34104679218054839782019-01-05T14:30:00.000+11:002019-01-05T14:30:04.016+11:00Sunburnt Stars: A Conversation That Happened #12<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Sara Creasyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09398837332152581447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31145063.post-60384853857583210952018-12-29T14:30:00.000+11:002018-12-29T14:30:10.518+11:00Sunburnt Stars: A Conversation That Happened #21When we watch Netflix together...<br />
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<br />Sara Creasyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09398837332152581447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31145063.post-72124719378730618752018-12-22T14:30:00.000+11:002018-12-21T00:16:00.204+11:00Sunburnt Stars: A Conversation That Happened #20When I was a kid, I used to draw comic strips about girls in boarding school (I mean, what else is there?!). More recently I've tried my (digital) hand at comic strips about writing, living with another writer, and motherhood. The series is called Sunburnt Stars for no good reason.<br />
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So, stand by for the occasional randomized little bit of nonsense. (Click to enlarage.)<br />
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Here's a seasonal one:<br />
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<br />Sara Creasyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09398837332152581447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31145063.post-20456617994495159392013-04-18T12:30:00.002+10:002013-04-18T12:33:26.971+10:00Blogging about worldbuildingI'm talking worldbuilding at <b><a href="http://ivybookbindings.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/just-anotherbook-crush-3-song-of.html">Ivy Book Bindings</a></b> today. While I do get flashes of character and plot in the early stages of storywriting, it's the worldbuilding that I love designing the most, along with the impact it has on human relationships.<br />
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This is part of a Book Crush series so I've also listed three of my favourite books - a classic, a recent fantasy (yes, I occasionally read one), and this year's standout (ahem) from my other half.Sara Creasyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09398837332152581447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31145063.post-40855297641076978172013-04-12T21:43:00.002+10:002013-04-18T12:33:51.735+10:00Computers as movie directors?<b><a href="http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/oh-what-we-could-do-with-a-mac-thats-1000-times-faster">Here's a nice reference</a></b> to <i>Song of Scarabaeus</i> on the Mac Observer. Think about it: what if computers were powerful enough to make a digital movie from a book with no human input necessary?<br />
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The computing power of the biocyph in SoS is fast enough to terraform entire ecosystems. I think biocyph could probably handle animating a novel. Whether an Apple Mac could ever do it is up for debate. I'd love to see how a computer handled the musical analogy I used for Edie jacking into the datastream. It's not visual concept, and movies need to be pretty to look at.Sara Creasyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09398837332152581447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31145063.post-4035773827261533752013-04-11T00:24:00.000+10:002013-04-11T00:24:42.274+10:00Talk about SongIf you're on Goodreads, <i>Song of Scarabaeus</i> has been picked as one of the two reads this month at the Vaginal Fantasy Hangout, which is a segment on the Geek & Sundry YouTube channel from Felicia Day (et al). The YouTube discussion comes in a few weeks but meanwhile you can talk about the book on Goodreads <b><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/group/show_book/62938-vaginal-fantasy-hangout?group_book_id=543660">here</a></b>.<br />
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In last month's YouTube episode, Felicia introduced the two books at the end (the other is <i>Ghost Planet</i> by Sharon Lynn Fisher) and not only said both my names correctly but succeeded with her second attempt in pronouncing Scarabaeus (check out 1:07:44 so that you, too, can achieve this rare feat). In my experience that's about three attempts fewer than most people, and I don't blame them. It's a silly word. (Don't even ask what it means.)<br />
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I don't actually know how it's pronounced, by the way. It's just how I say it.<br />
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As for spelling it... good luck with that. Even my own publisher misspelled it in a promotional flyer (fortunately I caught it in the draft).<br />
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This month MCP is interviewed in Clarkesworld Magazine, and has some interesting things to say about The Kassa Gambit, shoes, Jack Vance, and dogs:</div>
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Sara Creasyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09398837332152581447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31145063.post-90247929695129684532013-01-09T17:36:00.000+11:002013-01-17T16:44:16.452+11:00Release day! The Kassa GambitPretty much the first thing MCP and I did when we met was exchange manuscripts - mine was an early version of <i>Song of Scarabaeus</i>, his was the first novel in a fantasy trilogy. While I fell in love with his writing, I admit that fantasy is not really my thing. (At least it wasn't until <i>Game of Thrones</i> (the TV show), which really isn't that fantastical anyway.)<br />
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Evidently this discrepancy didn't hinder our relationship, especially as MCP is also a huge sci-fi fan. So he wrote me an adventure sci-fi book "where everything blows up on the first page", as he put it. The book was called <i>Prudence Falling</i>, which is the protagonist's name and I think a lovely evocative title, but Tor disagreed and it became<i> The Kassa Gambit</i>.<br />
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It's out today! - hardcover and ebook formats. MCP also has some blog interviews and posts coming up around the traps (includes updates I've made a few days later):<br />
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<li>Interview at <a href="http://www.layersofthought.net/2013/01/interview-mc-planck-author-of-kassa.html">Layers of Thought</a></li>
<li>Interview at <a href="http://qwillery.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/interview-with-mc-planck-author-of.html">The Qwillery</a></li>
<li>Guest post at <a href="http://www.2readornot2read.com/2013/01/mc-planck-answers-question-which.html">To Read or Not to Read</a> - "Which writers have influenced you the most?"</li>
<li>Guest post at <a href="http://starmetaloakreviews.com/2013/01/guest-post-m-c-planck-author-of-the-kassa-gambit/">Starmetal Oak Reviews</a> - "Books that aren't read as much as they should be"</li>
<li>Interview at <a href="http://www.book-brats.com/interview-author-mc-planck-2/#.UPFPU-TOtBk">Book Brats</a></li>
<li>Interview at <a href="http://www.prationality.com/2013/01/pr-special-edition-mc-planck.html">Poisoned Rationality</a></li>
<li>A nice review from <a href="http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/book-review-the-kassa-gambit/">Open Letters Monthly</a>, which laments the hc price and calls the book "a tasty science fiction snack".</li>
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Links to buy the book are <a href="http://mcplanck.com/Books.html">here on MC Planck's website</a>.<br />
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Congratulations to my amazing man! xxxSara Creasyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09398837332152581447noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31145063.post-17118419784788535492012-08-08T22:52:00.002+10:002012-08-08T22:52:52.344+10:00The Kassa GambitI remember the excitement of seeing my book starting to appear in online bookstores before it came out. Now it's my other half's turn, and I'm excited all over again! (He is a bit, too.) His book <i>Prudence Falling</i>, which became <i>Firaxe</i>, which became <i>The Kassa Gambit</i>, is listed at <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Kassa-Gambit-M-C-Planck/dp/076533092X">Amazon</a> - not much info yet, but the cover is there. And the cover is here, too:<div>
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Not much more to say other than this movie is heaps of fun. It's all about the characters, not the ray guns and army tanks (which there are none of either) and has a sort of Pitch Black redemptive flavour to it.</div>
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Sara Creasyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09398837332152581447noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31145063.post-29426121833036246842012-06-07T22:41:00.001+10:002012-06-07T22:41:39.057+10:002012 Snapshot of Australian SFI've been interviewed as part of the 2012 Snapshot of Australian SF, where various bloggers publish various Aussie SF interviews over the course of several days. Here's my interview <b><a href="http://mondyboy.com/?p=625">on Ian Mond's blog</a></b>.<br />
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There are loads of great interviews to check out in this series - see the link round-up here: <b><a href="http://aussiespecficinfocus.wordpress.com/snapshot-2012-links-round-up/">Snapshot 2012</a></b><br />
<br />Sara Creasyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09398837332152581447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31145063.post-41093009776469532612012-05-14T21:42:00.000+10:002012-05-18T16:50:21.583+10:00Aurealis Awards - and the winner is...Unfortunately we didn't make it to the Aurealis Awards in Sydney this year - but I did watch the tweets from the ceremony, so thanks to those who let their fingers do the talking.<br />
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<i>Children of Scarabaeus</i> didn't win, but a very interesting-sounding book did. (I say interesting-sounding because I haven't read - or at least completed - a novel in ages, so any time a recent SF novel is mentioned, you can count on me not having read it even if I've heard of it and <i>want </i>to read it.) Best SF Novel went to <i><b><a href="http://www.kimwestwood.com/courier.html">The Courier's New Bicycle</a></b></i> by Kim Westwood - it's set in Melbourne, which is yet another reason to read it, and from the blurb sounds like a cross between the <i>Dark Angel</i> TV show and Neal Stephenson's <i>Snow Crash</i>, with some love, mystery and religion thrown in.<br />
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Congratulations, Kim!Sara Creasyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09398837332152581447noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31145063.post-13411496545970811222012-04-10T09:12:00.002+10:002012-04-10T09:12:52.285+10:00Interview about SF and SFRAussie author Kylie Griffin has <a href="http://www.kyliegriffinromance.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/topic-in-galaxy-far-far-awaywith-sara.html"><b>interviewed me on her blog</b></a>, where I talk about some sci-fi influences and the slooooow (but hopefully ongoing) rise of SFR's popularity.<br />
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Check out <b><a href="http://www.kyliegriffin.com/Home.html">Kylie's new book release</a></b> Vengeance Born!<br />
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