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how did you and Max divi up the writing for "This is How you Lose the Time War"? My Sci Fi book group read it this month, and we are discussing it. Thanks. BTW, we love it!
Amal El-Mohtar Hi Ruth! So glad you're enjoying the book!

In brief, Max wrote all of Red and I wrote all of Blue.

At medium length, we described the process in depth…moreHi Ruth! So glad you're enjoying the book!

In brief, Max wrote all of Red and I wrote all of Blue.

At medium length, we described the process in depth here: http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/el-mo...

At longest length, we described the process here: https://vector-bsfa.com/2020/03/11/th...

& this is super short notice, but Max and I are going to be in conversation this evening (8PM EST) about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpG0L...

Thanks so much for reading!

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Hello! I absolutely enjoyed This is how you lose the time war. I was wondering, how hard was it to conceptualize the kind of story you and Mr Gladstone wanted to write? And if we can expect anything more set in the same universe?
Amal El-Mohtar Hello! The only stuff we have planned for the same universe at the moment is a TV show (it's very early days -- the book got optioned, we got hired to…moreHello! The only stuff we have planned for the same universe at the moment is a TV show (it's very early days -- the book got optioned, we got hired to write the screenplay, we did that, next steps are pending) -- but as for conceptualizing it, I think we had the flavour, the project, the general sense of it before we had any of its particulars. We've written about the process in a few places if you're interested! This one's the longest / most in-depth, I think: https://vector-bsfa.com/2020/03/11/th...(less)
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I'm writing from a dear friend's dining room table in St Louis, where I'm listening to sparrows, petting a perfect orange cat, and catching my breath. From March 4 to March 8 I was in a different city every day: New York, Portland (Maine), Chapel Hill, Cincinnati, and finally here, meeting booksellers and readers, reconnecting with friends and colleagues, some o

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“I love you. I love you. I love you. I'll write it in waves. In skies. In my heart. You'll never see, but you will know. I'll be all the poets, I'll kill them all and take each one's place in turn, and every time love's written in all the strands it will be to you.”
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“I want to meet you in every place I ever loved. Listen to me. I am your echo. I would rather break the world than lose you.”
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“Books are letters in bottles, cast into the waves of time, from one person trying to save the world to another.”
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Beyond Reality: April 2011 Nebula Nominee - THE GREEN BOOK by Amal El-Mohtar 5 29 Apr 05, 2011 03:58PM  
Beyond Reality: NEBULA NOMINEES: Spring 2011 Short Story Reading Schedule 26 76 May 07, 2011 01:53AM  
Sci-fi and Heroic...: "The Truth About Owls" by Amal El-Mohtar 4 16 Aug 10, 2015 06:46PM  
Sci-fi and Heroic...: The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, #9 (2014) 13 80 Aug 20, 2015 07:12AM  
The Sword and Laser: TTBC: October 2015 Pick: The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson 145 589 Oct 21, 2015 10:32AM  
Sci-fi and Heroic...: 2015 Nebula Award short story & novella nominees 11 51 Apr 22, 2016 01:39AM  
Sci-fi and Heroic...: "Madeleine” by Amal El-Mohtar 4 11 Apr 28, 2016 02:04AM  
SciFi and Fantasy...: 2017 Hugo Awards 39 272 Aug 13, 2017 12:03PM  
Ciencia Ficción e...: Seguimiento de premios 2017 47 145 Nov 21, 2017 01:46PM  

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message 3: by Dan
Mar 11, 2011 06:20AM

Dan Welcome to GoodReads!! :-)


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Mar 10, 2011 03:47PM

Shveta Thakrar C.s.e. wrote: "My leeetle LUVCUFF! Thou'rt on Goodreads now! Velcomeen!"

What she said, hee, hee!


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C.S.E. Cooney My leeetle LUVCUFF! Thou'rt on Goodreads now! Velcomeen!


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