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e i should have done an mfa instead but hey another piece of paper after that my mom and i flew out to belgium it was a weird trip because at first we were a bit nervous to go to brussels because of the lockdown we even tried to see if we could cancel and just stay in scotland instead but we sort of had to go when the airline wouldn t change i m glad we went in the end as it was if anything probably safer there than anywhere else at the moment we spent most of our time in ghent and brugges with only a day in brussels i ll do a travel roundup at some point goals for next month i have some admin to do catch up on my tax spreadsheet and it s long overdue that i rejig my website and make it a little slicker i ll also play around with drafting betwixt book shiny project and memory book i m someone who can split my attention between drafting and i m not really sure which one to focus on the most so i ll dip my toes into all of them as i ve turned in my last book that s under a deadline i m in that strange sort of limbo when i want to work but am aware i can t approach my publisher for another contract until my first book is out and they have sales figures yet i m also not someone to rest on my laurels next year will have a lot of promo and a few edits to tackle so i might as well take advantage of my weeks at home in my wee flat as winter grows stronger outside posted in general miscellaneous writing tagged books read education life reading travel writing leave a comment pantomime shadowplay are back in ebook posted on december 3 2015 december 3 2015 by laura lam yay after 11 months pantomime shadowplay the first two books in the micah grey series are back in ebook through their new publisher uk tor pantomime s 2 99 or basically the price of a latte if you ve read pantomime but not shadowplay here s a roundup of the plot of book 1 if you want to refresh your memory please consider spreading the word about these books it d mean the world to me strong e book sales would really help in terms of print runs for the paperbacks out in the uk next year in november december or maybe help other publishers come on board and all that good stuff reviews on sites like amazon goodreads shelfari barnes noble all also worth their weight in gold there s only so much i can yell about my own books without feeling like a shill so word of mouth from readers who liked these books is so very greatly appreciated about the books pantomime gaslight fantasy set in the circus e book re release december 3 2015 paperback re release late 2016 originally published in 2013 by strange chemistry books in a land of lost wonders the past is stirring once more gene s life resembles a debutante s dream yet she hides a secret that would see her shunned by the nobility gene is both male and female then she displays unwanted magical abilities last seen in mysterious beings from an almost forgotten age matters escalate further when her parents plan a devastating betrayal so she flees home dressed as a boy the city beyond contains glowing glass relics from a lost civilization they call to her but she wants freedom not mysteries so reinvented as micah grey gene joins the circus as an aerialist she discovers the joy of flight but the circus has a dark side she s also plagued by visions foretelling danger a storm is howling in from the past but will she heed its roar purchase amazon uk amazon us barnes noble booksamillion waterstones fishpond ibooks praise for pantomime pantomime by laura lam took me into a detailed and exotic world peopled by characters that i d love to be friends with and some i d never want to cross paths with robin hobb author of the farseer trilogy pantomime is a fantastical richly drawn poignant take on a classic coming of age story a vibrant tale told with surety and grace leigh bardugo author of the grisha trilogy six of crows set in a vividly imagined world with wonderful steampunk touches pantomime is a fable like story as beautifully unique as its main character malinda lo author of ash huntress and adaption shadowplay gaslight fantasy set on the magician s stage the sequel to pantomime ya fantasy this book will be re released by tor uk december 3 2015 in e book with paperbacks to follow starting late 2016 originally released in 2014 by strange chemistry don t quite remember all the plot points of pantomime i wrote a previously on pantomime summary old magics are waking but will the world survive their return micah grey almost died when he fled the circus with drystan now he and the ex clown seek to outrun disaster drystan persuades his old friend jasper maske a once renowned magician to take them in but when he agrees to teach them his trade maske is challenged to the ultimate high stakes duel by his embittered arch nemesis micah must perfect his skills of illusion while navigating a tender new love an investigator is also hunting the person he once seemed to be a noble family s runaway daughter as the duel draws near micah increasingly suffers from visions showing him real magic and future terrors events that broke the ancient world are being replayed but can micah s latent powers influence this deadly pattern purchase amazon uk amazon us barnes noble booksamillion waterstones fishpond ibooks posted in uncategorized 1 comment my favourite authors robin hobb posted on november 30 2015 by laura lam all of this read hobb if you haven t already thank me later panoply i ve been trying to figure out how to write this post ever since i started this blog series i m not sure i can convey what robin hobb means to me as an author she s my all time favourite writer she s my greatest influence her stories pull me in and shake me up like no others i have a circle of wonderful friends i wouldn t have without her books i ve met her twice and have five of her books signed her stories are magic beyond compare in scope depth and intricacy and nothing about that paragraph does justice to how i feel about her work the only way i know to share that feeling is to get people to read her books but i started this blog series knowing she was top of the list so here goes i received assassin s apprentice from my best friend for my 18th birthday i d never view original post 550 more words posted in uncategorized leave a comment the grey of gender posted on november 30 2015 november 29 2015 by laura lam in the build up to the ebook re release of pantomime shadowplay on december 3rd they are available for pre order i am reposting some of the articles i wrote in 2012 2013 for the initial blog tours content note genital surgery before writing pantomime shadowpla y i was interested in gender but now i m passionate about it i grew up in the san francisco bay area so i was always surrounded by different sexualities races abilities and gender presentation but for all of that when i decided to write about a character who fell between genders i knew i needed to learn more i am always consciously aware that as a cis gendered woman i am very much an outsider looking in and my goal is to tread carefully and with respect i m not sure i always succeed but i do always try i read a few books on gender theory and then started researching intersex especially what i found made me cry i had no idea that babies a few days old were operated upon to make their genitals look more normal even though that can take away a lot of sensation and of course the doctors half a 50 50 chance of choosing the sex that the child s gender identity won t identify with i didn t realise that a lot of the time those surgeries can later have complications resulting in many other surgeries read the read on the uncorked thoughts blog posted in pantomime shadowplay uncategorized tagged gender intersex pantomime shadowplay leave a comment why the circus and elladan worldbuilding posted on november 26 2015 november 24 2015 by laura lam in the build up to the ebook re release of pantomime shadowplay next month they are available for pre order i am reposting some of the articles i wrote in 2012 2013 for the initial blog tours just a note that the end of this article makes it seem like gene and micah are two people rather than the same person this was the marketing approach taken the first time around but that s not the case this time w hy the circus and elladan world building this question has come up a few times in various interviews why did i set your book in a circus and the answer is that it was a happy accident micah grey was 27 when i started his story i started a book with him in 2007 or so but i kept struggling with that book i thought a good idea would be to write about my character as a teenager and i thought it would be interesting if he had been in a circus it d give him strength flexibility and theatrics so i started a short story which then became a long short story and then a novella a novelette and then a novel with sequels read the rest on the book adoration blog posted in uncategorized leave a comment top ten settings i d like to see more of in ya fiction posted on november 24 2015 november 23 2015 by laura lam in the build up to the ebook re release of pantomime shadowplay next month they are available for pre order i am reposting some of the articles i wrote in 2012 2013 for the initial blog tours this one is a top ten tuesday from january 2013 i found this guest post very interesting to write as settings in ya are something i ve thought about but never fully articulated normally i speak more about characters but a setting brings a character to life i m enchanted by rich worldbuilding it also sparked some interesting twitter discussions when i put out a call for what other people want to see more of in ya when i was stuck on the 10th setting asian inspired fantasy i recently read shadows on the moon by zoe mariott which is a pseudo medieval japanese cinderella and count of monte cristo fantasy whew but it was absolutely wonderful and one of my favourite reads of 2012 i also recently read eon by alison goodman which features dragons and a girl disguised as a boy which i enjoyed there s stormdancer by jay kristoff and the tales of the otori books by lian hearne which i haven t read but there s not all that much and i d like to see more as there s such rich mythology in that corner of the world african inspired fantasy i realized i haven t read any except for frostfire by zoe mariott and though that had a wonderful cast of diverse characters didn t feel super african inspired perhaps because for that book the reader is in the isolated setting of the hill guard i can t believe there aren t more in adult fantasy i ve read anansi boys and there s zoo city i put out a call on twitter and had a couple of recommendations akata witch and zahrah the windseeker by nnedi okorafor so there s a gap in the market any others out there read the rest of the list on the bookworm dream blog posted in uncategorized leave a comment autumn winter holidays in ellada posted on november 20 2015 november 23 2015 by laura lam in the build up to the ebook re release of pantomime shadowplay next month i thought i would repost some of the articles i wrote for the initial blog tours onto this site this is a piece about winter holidays in ellada that originally appeared on starmetal oak s blog in late 2012 which closed down not long after the holidays are upon us in the country of ellada in the world of the archipelago the pseudo victorian world where my debut pantomime is set the winter holidays are both similar yet different to ours pantomime is set in spring and summer so these holidays don t appear until pantomime s sequel shadowplay there are two main autumn and winter holidays the night before the longest night of the year is called the night of the dead it s slightly similar to our halloween in that many feel the barrier between the living and the dead grows thinner many people hold dinner parties with séances for entertainment others who are more superstitious will stay inside windows shut tight so that the dead cannot come to haunt them the longest night of the year is known as the lady s long night or the long night of the lady elladans and most others in the archipelago worship two deities the lord of the sun and the lady of the moon the longest day of the year is coincidentally the day of the lord but it s not as largely celebrated at least not among the common people micah grey doesn t celebrate it in the circus for instance after all they already spend most of their waking hours in daylight but the lady s long night is a lavish affair when people celebrate that the worst of the winter and darkness is over a huge procession twines through downtown imachara the capital of ellada with floats topped with people dressed as the chimaera out of myth dressed all in white many go to the cathedrals to listen to choirs and pray to the lady of the moon gifts are exchanged it s a time of hope and cheer to remind them of the good in life just after they were reminded of the sinister in the night of the dead posted in pantomime shadowplay tagged fictional holidays laura lam micah grey micah grey series pantomime shadowplay leave a comment monthly roundup october 2015 posted on november 2 2015 november 2 2015 by laura lam books read ruin and rising grisha 3 leigh bardugo the capital has fallen the darkling rules ravka from his shadow throne now the nation s fate rests with a broken sun summoner a disgraced tracker and the shattered remnants of a once great magical army deep in an ancient network of tunnels and caverns a weakened alina must submit to the dubious protection of the apparat and the zealots who worship her as a saint yet her plans lie elsewhere with the hunt for the elusive firebird and the hope that an outlaw prince still survives alina will have to forge new alliances and put aside old rivalries as she and mal race to find the last of morozova s amplifiers but as she begins to unravel the darkling s secrets she reveals a past that will forever alter her understanding of the bond they share and the power she wields the firebird is the one thing that stands between ravka and destruction and claiming it could cost alina the very future she s fighting for 2 sequel to the potion diaries amy alward this was a beta read but since it ll be out next year i m counting it it s just as fun as the first 3 zer0es chuck wendig five hackers an anonymous style rabble rouser an arab spring hacktivist a black hat hacker an old school cipherpunk and an online troll are detained by the u s government forced to work as white hat hackers for uncle sam in order to avoid federal prison at a secret complex known only as the lodge where they will spend the next year working as an elite cyber espionage team these misfits dub themselves the zeroes but once the zeroes begin to work they uncover secrets that would make even the most dedicated conspiracy theorist s head spin and soon they re not just trying to 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