Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar

Dec
15

Bewitching Bios in THE BESTIARY

So I have a story in Ann VanderMeer’sBestiary anthology [http://storybundle.com/fiction], about invisible grief-eating leeches called Weialalaleia.
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Dec
15

Lightspeed Column: RADIANCE, THE BURIED GIANT, BONE SWANS

My Lightspeed column for the December issue [http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/book-reviews-december-2015/] is now online! I take a look
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Dec
08

NPR Books Concierge: Best Books of 2015

Behold this magnificent enterprise! [http://apps.npr.org/best-books-2015/] This is NPR’s guide to the Best Books of 2015
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Dec
07

The Starlit Wood Anthology

Just about a year ago, my now-husband, then-fiancé’s niece asked me to tell her a fairy tale. I made
2 min read
Dec
02

End-of-Year Reviews, SF Mind Meld and a Beast of a StoryBundle

Art by Oliver HunterWe made it to December. I get a bit breathless thinking of how much work there’s
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Nov
19

VIDEO: Uncanny Duel with Max Gladstone

We bit our thumbs. We bit them at each other. We put up our swords, and today, we put up
1 min read
Nov
19

NPR Review - LUNGDON by Edward Carey

First there wasHeap House [http://www.npr.org/2014/10/17/356989525/heap-house-is-a-treasure-of-a-trash-tale] . Then there wasFoulsham [http://www.npr.org/
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Nov
13

WFC 2015 - Revisiting

Photo by Stephen Segal, November 2007In 2007, I took my first solo road trip: a five-hour jaunt from Ottawa to
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Nov
13

NPR Review - WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor

Travel, travel and yet more travel have delayed my writing a bunch of neat things up — many of which happened
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Oct
06

NPR Review: CARRY ON by Rainbow Rowell

My review of Rainbow Rowell’s first fantasy novel,Carry On, is up at NPR Books [http://www.npr.org/
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