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THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR: OUT TODAY!

Posted on July 16, 2019 by Amal El-Mohtar

Friends! Today’s the day! You’ve waited. You’ve suffered agonies of time. But now you can suffer its pleasures too. This Is How You Lose the Time War is my novella collaboration with Max Gladstone, and it launches in North America … Continue reading →

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This Is How You Lose the Time War Reviews and Interviews

Posted on June 6, 2019 by Amal El-Mohtar

Praise! Interviews! GIVEAWAYS! Continue reading →

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Drip Launch!

Posted on March 22, 2018 by Amal El-Mohtar

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 October Appearances: Can*Con, Surrey International Writers’ Conference

Posted on October 12, 2017 by Amal El-Mohtar

It’s all gone a bit autumn at last, and part of me breathes easier for it, even as deadlines and imminent travel loom on the horizon. Here’s a sketch of where I’ll be and what I’ll be doing for the … Continue reading →

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Bookburners: FIRE & ICE

Posted on August 3, 2016 by Amal El-Mohtar

Guys I did a thing! Backstory: there is this thing called Serial Box, which is kind of like HBO for ebooks: it runs serial fiction in novelette-length “episodes” to which you can subscribe, and have them turn up on your … Continue reading →

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The Starlit Wood Anthology

Posted on December 7, 2015 by Amal El-Mohtar

Just about a year ago, my now-husband, then-fiancé’s niece asked me to tell her a fairy tale. I made one up, liberally mashing “The Black Bull of Norroway” with “The Glass Mountain” in order to tell her a story about girls … Continue reading →

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Writing the Margins from the Centre and Other Moral Geometries

Posted on August 14, 2015 by Amal El-Mohtar

This blog post is written in fulfilment of a Kickstarter reward claimed during Uncanny Magazine‘s Year One Kickstarter (with apologies for the delay, as the Year Two Kickstarter is presently underway, about which more later!) I was asked to write about the following: How can … Continue reading →

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“Madeleine” up at Lightspeed

Posted on June 23, 2015 by Amal El-Mohtar

Today my story “Madeleine” was released online from the Queers Destroy Science Fiction issue of Lightspeed magazine. It’s accompanied by a gorgeous illustration by Orion Zangara (whose work has also graced a past issue of Goblin Fruit!), and a wonderful reading by Paul Boehmer … Continue reading →

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“The Truth About Owls” Reprinted at Strange Horizons

Posted on January 26, 2015 by Amal El-Mohtar

I’ve been bursting with this for a while: “The Truth About Owls,” my story in Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy, has been reprinted in Strange Horizons. There’s also an interview with Kaleidoscope editors Alisa Krasnostein and Julia Rios, and you can also listen … Continue reading →

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Rich and Strange: “No Vera There” by Dominica Phetteplace

Posted on December 10, 2014 by Amal El-Mohtar

This week I look at a story from the ever-excellent Clarkesworld. “No Vera There” is one of those stories that simultaneously engages parts of my brain that appreciate very different things: in this case narrative and structure. There’s something supremely … Continue reading →

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