2015, In Writing
Honestly, I can’t believe I’m writing this year-end post, because I genuinely don’t know how we got to December already. It’s been a year.
This year in fiction:
NOVEL:
PERSONA, my near-future political thriller. It’s so hard for me to talk about my own work that I tend to just avoid it, particularly with this book, in which the plot actually matters enough that I try not to just spoil it all instantly. (Obviously to some extent that’s true for all books, but I can talk concretely about a lot more things in, say, THE GIRLS AT THE KINGFISHER CLUB than I can in this book, because those girls were neglected and kept in close quarters for years and still ended up immeasurably better adjusted than literally anyone in PERSONA, and none of them is conspiring to murder any of the others. For example.) It has diplomacy, ecopolitical precipice, and celebrity culture; beyond that, who knows.
Maybe we’ll just do the three-things approach to the rest of the year.
NOVELETTE:
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