Author Archives: Amal El-Mohtar

AMA on Twitter with Drip! April 4 at Noon EST

Posted on March 27, 2018

What it says on the tin! So last week I launched a Drip account, a subscription service affiliated with Kickstarter. Now Drip’s invited me to do an AMA with them on Twitter next week! (If you’ve never taken part in … Continue reading →

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Drip Launch!

Posted on March 22, 2018

So today’s the first day of 2018’s first Mercurial Retrograde. Let’s skip the part where you’re an eminently sensible person who doesn’t believe in such nonsense; Mercury’s Retrograde believes in YOU. It believes in your capacity to miss deadlines, travel poorly, succumb to accidents, and drastically miscommunicate with your fellows, and it is here to support you in all these endeavours.

In other words, it’s the perfect day to launch a subscription service!  Continue reading →

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Upcoming Appearances: Penguicon, Blue Met Festival, Wakefield Writers Festival, CONvergence

Posted on March 21, 2018

Happy day after the Vernal Equinox (in the Northern Hemisphere), friends! I hope you all felt empowered to Skip Leg Day. I’ve got a ton of academic work to get through between now and June, so I’m very sad to … Continue reading →

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First OTHERWORLDLY column at the NYT Book Review

Posted on February 22, 2018

My first column for the NYTBR is here! The print version will be in this week’s Sunday edition. In it I review Del and Sofia Samatar’s Monster Portraits, Subterranean Press’ Weight of Words anthology, and Jo Walton’s Starlings. Here’s a taste: More than any … Continue reading →

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Appearances: Washington DC Fly-by Visit!

Posted on February 13, 2018

Oyez! I’m going to be in DC tomorrow through Friday doing some really neat public events that it’d be great if you could come to! Canadian Authors: S.K. Ali, Amal El-Mohtar and Canisia Lubrin Wednesday, Feb 14 4:30 PM – … Continue reading →

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NPR Reviews: Nnedi Okorafor’s THE NIGHT MASQUERADE and Kim Purcell’s THIS IS NOT A LOVE LETTER

Posted on February 7, 2018

A couple of reviews I wrote went up on NPR these last couple of weeks! Here are samplings of them: Binti: The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor The Night Masquerade picks up where Home left off, with Binti learning, through her newly enhanced … Continue reading →

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LeVar Burton Reads “The Truth About Owls”

Posted on January 23, 2018

I’ve been waiting since October to talk about this. S2 ep2 is a wonder filled story, “The Truth About Owls” by @tithenai aka, the seriously talented, Amal El-Mohtar.#bydhttmwfi #getyousomehttps://t.co/XxZcDFsdEE — LeVar Burton (@levarburton) January 23, 2018 Back in October, on … Continue reading →

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ConFusion Schedule!

Posted on January 8, 2018

Come hear Max Gladstone and I read on Saturday at 3PM! We’ll read from our epistolary spy vs spy time war novella! Continue reading →

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2017 in Creative Work

Posted on January 5, 2018

Happy New Year! Term doesn’t start up again until next week — when I’ll be teaching Creative Writing at the University of Ottawa while continuing my doctoral dissertation at Carleton — so this week’s been a combination of gearing up … Continue reading →

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2017 Winter Solstice: Hermitage & Candles

Posted on December 21, 2017

The last of the shortest day’s light is dimming. Across from me is Rima Staines’ “The Storyteller” Advent Calendar, with 21 days’ worth of folk and fairy tales opened up so far. Outside my window is a lot of snow, … Continue reading →

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