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Elizabeth Bear’s newest novel, Range of Ghosts, debuted yesterday.  It is awesome.

How do I know that?   Well, first of all, I had the distinct pleasure of a sneak peek at this novel at Leprecon almost a year ago, where Bear read an excerpt.  It knocked my socks off.  (Also, I have an ARC.  But I’m not going to brag about that (much).)  But don’t take my word for it.  Here’s what Brit Mandelo has to say about it, and SF Signal gave it a glowing 5 stars.

If you’re still not convinced that it’s worth a look, you can read an excerpt here.

Wow.  I let another 2 weeks pass without updating the blog.  Gosh, you’d never know I have books coming out this year given the AWESOME job I’m doing with the self-promotion.  I am setting the internet on fire with my mind-blowing promotion skills…

Luckily for me, I have extremely kind and diligent readers willing to take up the slack on my behalf!  (I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: it’s better to be lucky than good.)   Which leads to the coolest interview I’ve done online, at the French website Unwalkers.com.

A few weeks ago, I posted about current (heh) research into tDCS, transcranial direct current stimulation.  Soon after that, while at Boskone, I had a nice chat with my friends Tom and Linda Porter  (Hi Tom, Hi Linda!)  We got to talking about tDCS, which, not surprisingly, is a topic I find rather interesting.  They had seen a writeup in the Washington Post, a version of the New Scientist article I’d linked to.

Tom and Linda were kind enough to provide me with the newspaper clipping (“Trying a 9-volt shortcut to expertise”, pg E4, Tuesday, February 14, 2012).  And am I grateful for their generosity—while reading the newspaper article I ran across a fantastic detail that I’d completely missed in the New Scientist article.

It turns out that on Wednesday, the same day the Palencar Project was unveiled, I found a package on my doorstep when I arrived home.

I’d been expecting the package.  But I definitely wasn’t expecting what I found inside.