If you were actually sitting in a friend’s home and having a really intense conversation into the night and stuff like that – it felt more like that space. We were bringing the selves to it that you would bring to a friend. That catalyzed a process – we were still talking in other media, like we’d communicate on Twitter and stuff, but it felt like we’d begun a conversation in letters, and that was happening with a different texture and a different quality. We wanted to talk more, but Amal’s in Ottawa, and I was in the States, so letters felt like a good choice.Īmal El-Mohtar: I wrote a note to Max and his partner Steph after having a really nice time at a con. It’s the water cooler, and you end up behaving as you behave at the company water cooler. It’s hard to be vulnerable and available and personal there.
We had talked at conventions, enjoyed hanging out with one another, and found there’s a difficulty in connecting online. Max Gladstone: Amal and I started writing letters to one another. Gladstone lives in Somerville MA with his wife, Stephanie Neely.Įl-Mohtar & Gladstone collaborated on the epistolary SF novella This Is How You Lose the Time War (2019).
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He also writes games, notably interactive fiction Choice of the Deathless, and created serial collaborative fictions Bookburners (four seasons, 2015-18) and The Witch Who Came In From the Cold (2017, co-created with Lindsay Smith) for Serial Box. Gladstone was a finalist for the Campbell Award for best new writer in 20. His standalone The Empress of Forever appeared in 2019.
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Debut novel Three Parts Dead (2012) began the Craft sequence, which continues in Two Serpents Rise (2013), Full Fathom Five (2014), Last First Snow (2015), Four Roads Cross (2016), and The Ruin of Angels (2017). He has been to China several times, and lived there from 2006-8 as a Yale-China Fellow, teaching in a rural school. He graduated from Yale University, where he studied Chinese. Max Walker Gladstone was born in Concord MA, and grew up mostly in Ohio and Tennessee. El-Mohtar lives in Ottawa (and occasionally Glasgow) with husband Stuart West, married in 2015. She has taught at Carleton University (where she is currently pursuing a doctorate in English) and the University of Ottawa. Wick in 2006, and in 2018 began writing the Otherworldly SF/fantasy column for the New York Times Book Review. She started editing poetry magazine Goblin Fruit with Jessica P. Some of her short fiction is collected in The Honey Month (2010). She began publishing short fiction with “The Crow’s Caw” (2006) and has published scores of stories and poems, notably Hugo, Locus, and Nebula Award winner “Seasons of Glass and Iron” (2016, also a World Fantasy, Sturgeon Memorial, and Aurora Award finalist), Nebula Award finalists “The Green Book” (2010) and “Madeleine” (2015), World Fantasy Award finalist “Pockets” (2015), Locus Award winner “The Truth About Owls” (2014), and Rhysling Award winners “Song for An Ancient City” (2008), “Peach-Creamed Honey” (2010), and “Turning the Leaves” (2013). Amal El-Mohtar was born Decemin Ottawa, Canada, and grew up there, apart from two years spent in Lebanon, where her family is from.
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