Margo Lanagan's Blog

This week the Zeroes Authors Traveling Show rolls through:


Fort Collins, CO
St Paul, MN
Lansing, MI
Nashville, TN


Details in this earlier post.

Here's Jennie Gyllblad's portrait of Ethan, code name Scam, plus a run-down of his power, an excerpt about him, a work-in-progress pic and many links to where you can buy Zeroes.

Here's where West Coasters can catch up with the Zeroes tour in its first week. Come along and say hi to ScoZZ, DebZ and Zmarg (renamed in honour of our not-heroes).



LOS ANGELES, CA

Tuesday, September 29

7:00 PM PST

BARNES
& NOBLE

1201 3rd St. Promenade

Santa Monica, CA 90401



SAN DIEGO, CA

Wednesday, September 30

7:30 PM PST

MYSTERIOUS
GALAXY BOOKS

75943 Balboa Ave

Ste 100

San

Yesterday, Thursday 24 September, was Zeroes publication day in the UK.



To celebrate, Scott and Deb and I are on a blog tour around the Ould Country's spiffiest blogs, talking about the book, and the writing of the book, and who we'd invite to a fantasy barbecue, and our own fabulous superpowers, and heaps else besides. You can find us at the following places from the following dates.

Hey, look at this! Scott commissioned Jennie Gyllblad, comic-book artist, to produce portraits of all the Zeroes, and here's the first, Riley, a.k.a. Flicker—along with a little excerpt about Flicker's power, and some words on how Jennie created the illustration. 

Scott Westerfeld, Deborah Biancotti and I will be travelling about promoting Zeroes, the first book of the Zeroes trilogy, when it comes out in Australia and the US at the end of September/beginning of October. Below are our tour places and dates.

I'm excited to be going to all these places for first and return visits, to meet readers and booksellers! 


Here's Scott talking about the book—and a

The press releases went out on (US) Friday from Simon & Schuster US and UK, and today Allen & Unwin in Australia will make a similar announcement, about their acquisition of Zeroes, a YA fantasy trilogy that I've been working on for a while in collaboration with Scott Westerfeld and Deborah Biancotti.
     What's it all about, you ask? It's about Zeroes, who are teens who've developed new kinds

On 2 February 2015, Eat the Sky, Drink the Ocean, the "ground-breaking intercontinental collection of speculative stories" from India and Australia, will be published. 

A collection of sci-fi and fantasy writing, including 6 graphic stories, showcasing 20 stellar writers and artists from India and Australia: Isobelle Carmody, Penni Russon, Justine Larbalestier, Margo Lanagan, Lily Mae Martin,

Remember our Prime Minister being applauded for promising a new national Book Council at his Awards ceremony last week? Looks as if it’s going to be funded by a cut to the Australia Council of $2 million a year for three years. 

To make clear what this means: Ozco’s literature funding has been steady at around $4 million per annum for a ridiculous number of years, apart from a short-lived

I'm really pleased to announce that Sea Hearts is joint winner, with Fiona McFarlane's The Night Guest, of the Barbara Jefferis Award for "the best novel written by an Australian Author that depicts women and girls in a positive way or otherwise empowers the status of women and girls in society".
     The award was given at a lovely event last night hosted by the Australian Society of Authors in