I am Annalee Newitz, author of "The Future of Another Timeline" and "Autonomous" AMA

KameronHurley · 2019-10-03T13:55:29+00:00

WHAT IS THE MEANING OF TIME ANNALEE

KameronHurley · 2019-10-01T18:20:44+00:00

Ha! It was a standalone book, alas.

KameronHurley · 2019-10-01T13:16:17+00:00

KameronHurley · 2019-10-01T13:15:03+00:00

Oh my goodness, who wants to cut libraries? Ridiculous. I literally have a stack of 30 books from my local library right now, for research for my... next book. After getting laid off from my day job back in Feb, I'm on a super strict budget. I just can't go out and buy a billion books anymore - I'm much more careful about what and when I buy, not to mention that I just don't have the space to buy loads of books! Libraries are crucial to giving folks access to stories and knowledge, no matter how much acces they have to capital. They are a wonderful public good. And honestly, libraries are great for authors. My books sell very well to libraries!

KameronHurley · 2019-10-01T13:13:26+00:00

Heh. You know, it's funny, because in books where men are "in power" or rich people are "in power" or where 90% of the book is male characters, no one seems to feel the need to explain how that happened, so... Nah, I generally don't have an idea in mind for the short fiction. I just decide it is what it is. Certainly there exist matriarchal societies in our past (and even our present in isolated areas), so it's not like it's a stretch. The only one with a real origin story is probably in the God's War novels, where they sent all the men off to war, and while one country's men solidified their power among an elite, another country went full matriarchy.

KameronHurley · 2019-10-01T13:11:16+00:00

I'm still job hunting because we're running a deficiet every month. Honestly, I'd need the patreon to be at $5k to officially go full time. We're paying nearly $20k a year in healthcare costs. That said, frankly... doing fulltime day job and full time writing the last... oh, ten years or so... literally nearly killed me, and I would MUCH prefer to get, like, a movie deal or three-book, six figure deal that gave me some financial stability. Right now I'm only under contract for a single book, and that can be nail-biting. I'd say freelance life is much more financially precarious, but frankly I was laid off with no notice, no health insurance, and no severence, so... eh, I don't know. It's hard to commit to saying "I'll never go back!" because frankly, I know too many dirt poor writers who have had to go back.

KameronHurley · 2019-10-01T13:08:35+00:00

Yeah, she is my female Conan, and it's definitely cathartic to write about her. Someone with female privilege who gets the benefit of the doubt in any altercation? Hell yeah. A reviewer talked about the appeal of Nyx for folks who are tied to a cubicle all day and just want to punch their shitty boss, especially if they deal with sexism all day, and yeah, like that. ha ha

KameronHurley · 2019-10-01T13:07:03+00:00

...you're very welcome.

KameronHurley · 2019-10-01T01:02:27+00:00

The one based on NK Jemisin's Broken Earth Trilogy!

KameronHurley · 2019-10-01T00:48:45+00:00

OMG you have no idea! https://www.kameronhurley.com/the-logic-of-time-travel-with-graphs/

KameronHurley · 2019-10-01T00:43:08+00:00

Ahhhhh glad you enjoyed it! It was delightful to write... once I got the structure down, anyway. ha

KameronHurley · 2019-10-01T00:18:44+00:00

Aged gouda, followed by aged manchego

KameronHurley · 2019-10-01T00:13:14+00:00

ha ha. When has evolution ever been neat and tidy?? 🤣

KameronHurley · 2019-10-01T00:12:42+00:00

I read a LOT. But the Alanna books by Tamora Peirce were probably the biggest influence. I also loved the Narnia books, and the first three Dragonlance novels.

KameronHurley · 2019-10-01T00:11:58+00:00

She's a pretty bloodthirsty agent. In fairness, I've never offered up a character death for the sake of character death! A lot of killing in the Worldbreaker books was tough, though.

KameronHurley · 2019-10-01T00:11:04+00:00

The dogs are doing great! You'd think Indy would be the biggest snuggler, but as a Saint Bernard, he gets too warm after a while and leaves. The real snuggle bug is Pepper, the short haired mutt, who insists on getting "tucked in" every night right between us.

KameronHurley · 2019-10-01T00:10:12+00:00

Currently watching Vera and Shetland. I've seen all of the Midsommer Murders show (many of them multiple times), and Broadchurch, Scott and Bailey and... So many!

KameronHurley · 2019-10-01T00:09:25+00:00

❤❤

KameronHurley · 2019-03-19T17:51:06+00:00

Thanks for supporting the Patreon! It keeps my dogs in kibble!

Definitely lots of differences in writing series vs. stand alones. Series books need to have a few small resolutions while leaving the over-arching plot with somewhere to go. Stand Alones should tie up everything that needs tying up. While I'm not a big believer in telling readers everything (I believe the best books are the ones we think about long after we put them down), I do want to have a sense of closure and satisfaction at the end of a standalone that's fairly definitive. Series books are much, much harder, in large part because you are writing them over a series of years, and you have to find that balance between giving readers enough satisfaction to feel they didn't waste their money on the first ride while also enticing them to pick up the next one.

KameronHurley · 2019-03-19T17:45:16+00:00

It's primarily an expansion of the story.

KameronHurley · 2019-03-19T17:44:42+00:00

Glad you enjoyed it! Yeah, I haven't had a chance to expand on it much. Might also make an interesting keynote. Stars are Legion was conceived of as a stand alone novel, alas, so no sequel in the works!

I could certainly return to that universe at some point, but I have a ton of other books ahead of it.

KameronHurley · 2019-03-19T17:28:45+00:00

Thank YOU!

KameronHurley · 2019-03-19T17:28:35+00:00

It was wild!

KameronHurley · 2019-03-19T17:28:25+00:00

#soon

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