truly, I wish more science fiction imagined technologies and infrastructures more like Minority Report does: Completely needless, consistently implausible, delightfully Rube Goldberg-ian (well, see, there’s a really really weird woman moaning in a bathtub with her siblings…)
The audiobook for WRONG WAY is currently on sale for $2.99 on Audible. No idea how long this sale will go on, but I can say the performer, Jennifer Jill Araya, did an incredible job—and biased as I am—I can't recommend her work enough.
Internet! I have a virtual book event w/ Sarah Jaffe hosted by the internet Archive on leap day. It's an incredibly fun series and I'd love to see you there.
San Francisco! We have a very fun evening planned with me, Robin Sloan, Susie Cagle, and more on Feb 23rd at Et Al books (2831a Mission Street). Would love to see and meet Mastodon friends!
Los Angeles!! THIS Saturday afternoon at the Edendale branch LAPL in Echo Park I'm speaking with screenwriter Lindsey Villarreal (Tales of the Walking Dead, The Purge etc)...excited for this!!
@kissane i gave my sister toad by katherine dunn last year because the cover is so my sister
God Went Like That by Yxta Maya Murray is the book i've been recommending to everyone this year
and, if this counts as a book, (or a book-like object sold at bookstores), this is my favorite present to give friends around the holidays https://slingshotcollective.org/the-organizer/
BTW: It's been a bit tricky to find copies in bookstores but any place that I do an event will have copies available. Harvard Book Store has a bunch right now, and there are signed copies at Skylight, where I did an event last week.
Other places you can find it include Powells in Portland. In NYC there are a few at the McNally Jackson in Soho, Book Culture and the B&N at Union Square. In SF, it's in stock at the Green Apple on Clement. In Seattle, Elliott Bay Book Company has copies in stock.
@pootriarch Thank you!
I should probably make some sort of graphic but here is the list so far:
11/25 3pm Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art, Fall River, MA
11/27 7pm Harvard Bookstore Cambridge, MA
11/28 7pm Riffraff Books, Providence, RI
12/4 7pm Wonderville, Brooklyn, NY
At the moment, I'm trying to schedule events in SF, Portland, and another event in LA. That will probably be in January-February.
WRONG WAY is out in 2 weeks! 🚦 🚧🚘😳
Pre-order from Massive Bookshop and 40% of the cover price goes to MAAP, a material aid group that supports the Greater Boston unhoused community. We’ve raised $691.20 with 96 copies pre-ordered. https://massivebookshop.com/products/9780374610661
Would love get to 100. I’ve got five copies of LURKING that I’m happy to personalize and ship to anyone in the US who pre-orders from Massive—just message me here or at joanne dot mcneil at gmail
WRONG WAY, my novel on gig economy future depths of hell, is out 🔺next:tetris_z: 🔻month:tetris_l: (and the pre-pub anxiety ramps up each passing day :blobcatsurprised:).
If you pre-order a copy from an indie bookstore & have an address where I can ship US media mail, I'll send you a signed copy of LURKING in the meantime. I've got nine copies left (email me at my name at gmail). Thank you!!
WRONG WAY was also recently named one of the Best Books of Fall by Esquire (a wonderful surprise, as I spent years working on it under the assumption that it was much too weird, transgressive, and far out politically to ever find a publisher)
If you were going to read a series of let’s say four absurdly long but tightly connected posts about internet things, what kind of publication rhythm would suit you best? Publish every few days? Once a week? Something else?
(“All at once” is a fine answer and would be good to know, but would be impractical for me, fwiw.)
@kissane whether once a week or every other day—I think it helps to schedule posts at the same time of day so people who are already following along know when to look for the next one. (excited for the series, btw!)
Watching the livestream of the Berkman Center's "Now & Next: Platform Accountability and Content Governance" event and wishing there was a backchannel. Listening to a woman (who is on moderation governance on facebook!) on the all-female panel get overly-guided by the (male) panel moderator and wishing I could share some eyerolls with someone. The last Berkman event I went to had a backchannel and a wiki. This one doesn't even seem to have a hashtag?
@jessamyn@kissane yeah, imagine Berkman inviting even one $15/hour contractor who has seen some shit to present.
Sounds like a big Meta presence in the audience too? (Which makes sense since the company literally has the money to hire everyone who would RSVP for an event like this.)