ianmcdonald (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} ianmcdonald) wrote,@ 2008-04-16 21:22:00 |
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journeys to Cyberabad
The latest (though the second written) of the Cyberabad Tales, The Dust Assassin is out NOW!!! in Jonathan Strahan's utterly covetable The Starry Rift. A YA tale, allegedly (how I would have hated to have been reduced to an ugly marketing acronym at that age), it of course has sex, violence, revenge and gender bending. Made me what I am. It's a hell of a writerly line-up and I feel a bit shoe-starey to have been included.
Just completed the copyedits on the most recent of the Cyberabad stories An Eligible Boy for Lou Anders' Fast Forward 2 , which is Jane Austenesque social comedy.
And while I'm in Cyberabaddy humour, More4 screened the marvellous Living Goddess doc about the Sajani Kumari in Bhaktapur. She was a wonderfully mundane divinity, and the access for the doc makers was astonishing. I thought the shifting political situation was done a little kack-handedly and it felt like something that cropped up halfway through filming that they pulled together in the edit. But begob, it made me want to go back to Nepal, expecially now in Interesting Times.
Well, I've decided that by hook or crook I'm going to Denvention. Membership paid.
The latest (though the second written) of the Cyberabad Tales, The Dust Assassin is out NOW!!! in Jonathan Strahan's utterly covetable The Starry Rift. A YA tale, allegedly (how I would have hated to have been reduced to an ugly marketing acronym at that age), it of course has sex, violence, revenge and gender bending. Made me what I am. It's a hell of a writerly line-up and I feel a bit shoe-starey to have been included.
Just completed the copyedits on the most recent of the Cyberabad stories An Eligible Boy for Lou Anders' Fast Forward 2 , which is Jane Austenesque social comedy.
And while I'm in Cyberabaddy humour, More4 screened the marvellous Living Goddess doc about the Sajani Kumari in Bhaktapur. She was a wonderfully mundane divinity, and the access for the doc makers was astonishing. I thought the shifting political situation was done a little kack-handedly and it felt like something that cropped up halfway through filming that they pulled together in the edit. But begob, it made me want to go back to Nepal, expecially now in Interesting Times.
Well, I've decided that by hook or crook I'm going to Denvention. Membership paid.
