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February 12, 2020

R. B. Lemberg’s THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES is a story to treasure and share

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Though still months away from publication, R. B. Lemberg’s THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES garners excitement.

Cover by Elizabeth Story based on initial concepts by Francesca Myman

Maria Haskins, on her eponymous site, praises the novella.

THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES is woven of beauty and words, pain and hope. It is a story to treasure and share.

BOOKENDS AND BAGENDS feels much the same.

From beginning to end and on every conceivable level I loved this novella. I loved the writing, the thought-provoking themes, the concepts that are so removed from the type of fantasy I usually read and a story that is told by a voice that I have never heard before.

ASIANA CIRCUS includes the book in 16 Best Fantasy books that will give you serious wanderlust.

As the nameless man travels through the desert and visits mysterious cities while accepting and discovering himself and others will inspire and motivate you to do the same.

January 17, 2020

Meet Hugo Award winner Kameron Hurley and Nebula Award finalist R. B. Lemberg at ConFusion

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Join Guest of Honor Kameron Hurley and the acclaimed R. B. Lemberg at Confusion, January 16-19 in Detroit, MI.

In addition to being the longest-running fan-run SF/F convention in Michigan, ConFusion is a premier event for publishing professionals and fans alike. It is hailed as a place to experience programming and guests on the caliber you find at a WorldCon, while located in a convenient and affordable setting.
What is ConFusion?

Pro Guest of Honor: Kameron Hurley
Creative Guest of Honor: Brandon O’Brien
Fan Guest of Honor: Bogi Takács
Science Guest of Honor: Dr. Julie Lesnik

Hurley and Lemberg are participating in several events at the convention.

Managing and Overcoming Professional Burnout	Fri, 1pm	Panelists: Marissa Lingen (M), Pablo Defendini, Ken Schrader, Kameron Hurley

Reading	Fri, 2pm	Bogi Takács and R.B. Lemberg

Avoiding Muddled Messes in World-Building	Fri, 6pm	Panelists: Sarah E Gibbons (M), Cherie Melinda Priest, Tracy Townsend, J. Zachary Pike, R.B. Lemberg

Ready, Steady, Flash!	Fri, 6pm	Panelists: Lee Harris (M), Brandon Crilly, Seanan McGuire, Stephanie Malia Morris, Kameron Hurley

Opening Ceremonies	Fri, 7PM	Panelists: Lithie Dubois (M), Seanan McGuire, Gwenda Bond, Kameron Hurley, Bogi Takács, Brandon O’Brien, Dr. Julie Lesnik

Evolving Visions of Toxic Masculinity	Sat, 10am	Panelists: Jason Sanford (M), Marsalis, Jim C. Hines, Kameron Hurley, Brandon O’Brien

Emotional Non-Violence In Fiction	Sat, 11am	Panelists: E.D.E. Bell (M), Jason Sanford, R.B. Lemberg, Brandon O’Brien

Kaffeeklatsch	Sat, 11am	Kameron Hurley

Don’t Fridge The Messenger	Sat, 1pm	Panelists: Nora E. Derrington (M), E. Jade Lomax, K. Lynne O’Connor, Kameron Hurley

Masculinity and Trauma Recovery in Genre Fiction	Sat, 2pm	Panelists: Brandon O’Brien (M), Adam R. Shannon, dave ring, John Wiswell, R.B. Lemberg

The Art of Writing Non-Linear Narratives	Sat, 4pm	Panelists: E.D.E. Bell (M), Jason Sanford, Gwenda Bond, Kameron Hurley

Black Gate Interview with Author GoH	Sun, 10am	Panelists: Brandon Crilly, Kameron Hurley

Closing Ceremonies	Sun, 3pm	Panelists: Lithie Dubois (M), Seanan McGuire, Gwenda Bond, Kameron Hurley, Bogi Takács, Brandon O’Brien, Dr. Julie Lesnik

Cover by Carl Sutton
Design by Elizabeth Story

Confusion
January 16-19
Sheraton Detroit Novi
Detroit, MI

January 14, 2020

R. B. Lemberg’s THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES sounds incredible

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Excitement grows for R. B. Lemberg and their forthcoming THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES.

Jo Ladzinski on their JO WRITES FANTASY (listed without comment) and EVERY BOOK A DOORWAY are excited about the book.

I don’t recall how exactly I discovered this one, but I’m so thankful that I did because it sounds incredible.
EVERY BOOK A DOORWAY

In an interview with PEN AMERICA, Rivers Solomon mentioned Lemberg and THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES when asked “Which writers working today are you most excited by?”

I love R.B Lemberg, whose novella THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES is forthcoming from Tachyon in 2020. Lyrical and unflinching.

On METAFILTER, Lemberg is mentioned several times in the conversations titled “3 months drinking from the firehose of trans literature/art/poetry/music.” In the beginning post, user protondonor list works by trans people in the order that they finished reading them. Interestingly enough the list begins with Lemberg’s “Grandmother-nai-Leylit’s Cloth of Winds” and finishes with Lemberg’s “The Desert Glassmaker and the Jeweler of Berevyar.”

In the ensuing comments, user thesmallmachine (aka Isaac R. Fellman) further elaborates on Lemberg.

Coming up next year, I’ve read ARC’s of Lemberg’s THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES, Daniel Ortberg (now Lavery)’s Something That May Shock and Discredit You, and Julian Jarboe’s Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel, and so I can say with confidence that 2020 is gonna be a GREAT year for transmasc writing.

December 26, 2019

Tachyon tidbits featuring Peter S. Beagle, Jacob Weisman, Avram Davidson, James DeMaiolo, and David Ebenbach

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The latest reviews and mentions of Tachyon titles and authors from around the web.

Jacob Weisman and Peter Beagle (photo: Jill Roberts)

Lucy Powell for SHORELINE OF INFINITY praises Peter S. Beagle and Jacob Weisman’s THE UNICORN ANTHOLOGY.

A collection of short stories all in some ways about unicorns, this anthology offers readers a variety of different fresh, exciting perspectives and engaging prose on the ages-old, and well known, mythical animal. Whilst there are a myriad of different authors chosen for this work, the collection of voices and styles edited together by Beagle and Weisman all sit seamlessly together, making an anthology that is consistently well-rounded and fresh as you flip from story to story.

Cover by Thomas Canty Design by Elizabeth Story

L.W. Currey is selling the original typed manuscript to Avram Davidson’s THE BOSS IN THE WALL.

A clean copy of a book proposal for a projected novel to be written by Avram Davidson and Grania Davis, based on an unpublished novella by Davidson (later published in a version attributed to Davidson and Davis by Tachyon in 1998) which evolved into an “enormous and unwieldy novel ms” by Davidson completed prior to 1988. The draft history of the earliest versions is a bit tangled. Davidson and Davis were represented by two different literary agents in earlier years. In his notes on the Davidson manuscript archive now in the Texas A&M library, Henry Wessells records an 87 page novella manuscript and a 563 novel manuscript (both unpublished), as well as a third version in collaboration with Grania Davis. So far, no novel version of this work has been published. In the Tachyon version, the text begins with the same line as the present manuscript, but is preceded by a three page prologue not present in this version, and ends with an entirely different line of text.

December 19, 2019

Tachyon tidbits featuring Nancy Kress, R. B. Lemberg, Joe R. Lansdale, and Carrie Vaughn

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The latest reviews and mentions of Tachyon titles and authors from around the web.

Nancy Kress (photo: Ellen Datlow), R. B. Lemberg, Joe R. Lansdale (Karen Lansdale), and Carrie Vaughn (Helen Sittig)

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY praises SEA CHANGE by Nancy Kress.

Kress wisely keeps her global catastrophe on a human scale, eschewing superheroic action for tense realism. This urgent, deeply satisfying story is as tenacious and inspiring as its heroine.

Ann Leckie recommends R. B. Lemberg’s forthcoming THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES.

This is one of R’s Birdverse stories, which I’ve recommended before. Their writing is lovely, their worldbuilding wonderful, their characters real and resonant. If you haven’t acquainted yourself with Birdverse yet, by all means do, and then be ready for this novella to come out next year.

Pamela Scott of THE BOOK LOVER’S BOUDOIR serves up the first review for Joe R. Lansdale’s OF MICE AND MINESTRONE.

I’ve read some things featuring Hap and Leonard before but wouldn’t say that I’m a massive fan. That may about to change because I thoroughly enjoyed this book.

NEW BOOK IN FANTASY AND ADVENTURE podcast selects THE IMMORTAL CONQUISTADOR by Carrie Vaughn as their March book.

Cover art by Rebecca Harp
Cover design by Elizabeth Story

December 18, 2019

Booksellers, librarians, and reviewers get R. B. Lemberg’s thoughtful and deeply moving THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES

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Review copies of R. B. Lemberg’s THE FOUR PROFOUND W EAVES are now available via EDELWEISS and NETGALLEY.

Two transgender elders must learn to weave from Death itself in order to defeat an evil ruler—in the first full length tale set in R. B. Lemberg’s award-winning queer fantasy Birdverse universe

I am staggered by the richness and intricacy of R. B. Lemberg’s imagination. The Four Profound Weaves is an intense and emotional story of a journey of change, growth, and courage.”
—Kate Elliott, New York Times bestselling author of the Court of Fives series

Wind: To match one’s body with one’s heart
Sand: To take the bearer where they wish
Song: In praise of the goddess Bird
Bone: To move unheard in the night

The Surun’ nomads do not speak of the master weaver, Benesret, who creates the cloth of bone for assassins in the Great Burri Desert. But aged Uiziya must find her aunt in order to learn the final weave, although the price for knowledge may be far too dear to pay.

Among the Khana in the springflower city of Iyar, women travel in caravans to trade, while men remain in the inner quarter, as scholars. A nameless man struggles to embody Khana masculinity, after many years of performing the life of a woman, trader, wife, and grandmother. As his past catches up, the man must choose between the life he dreamed of and Uiziya – while Uiziya must discover how to challenge the evil Ruler of Iyar, and to weave from deaths that matter.

In this breathtaking debut set in R. B. Lemberg’s beloved Birdverse, THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES hearkens to Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness, and offers a timeless chronicle of claiming one’s identity ina hostile world.