{"id":407,"date":"2009-04-17T11:21:10","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T19:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=407"},"modified":"2009-04-17T11:45:22","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T19:45:22","slug":"dont-mention-the-war-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=407","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Mention the War."},"content":{"rendered":"

I mentioned the past couple of weeks have been kinda crappy, right?\u00a0\u00a0 Got sick.\u00a0 Discovered I had to redo a bunch of duck stats, because I dumbly omitted a chunk of data from the analysis.\u00a0 Some Korean publisher is interested in Blindsight<\/em>, but the advance they’re offering seems to get cut almost in half by assorted taxes and commissions\u2014 and I can’t reach my former agent for clarification because Barracuda Reputation has decided that everything anybody sends from my ISP is spam.\u00a0 Oh, and I spent over two days with neither phone nor internet because some crack-addled doofus chewed through a wire in an open switchbox on the fourth floor.<\/p>\n

So in deference to the philosophy that no problem is so big or so complicated that it can’t be run away from, I’ve packed it off to the boons for the weekend with a bunch of other writers.\u00a0 I’ll be working on a story that’s due to Jon Strahan a month from now:\u00a0 this story<\/a>, in fact.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, the Heyne edition of Blindsight<\/em> (Blindflug<\/em>) seems to have made the final ballot<\/a> for some kind of German award called the “Kurd La\u00dfwitz Prize<\/a>“, in the “Best Foreign SF Novel” category (I’m up against Charlie Stross and a fellow named Dmitry Glukhovsky, who I’m just going to take a wild stab at guessing does not write in English).\u00a0 Also Sara Riffel, who translated Blindsight<\/em> into German, is on the list of finalists for Best Translation (and let’s face it, given all the jargon anyone who even tries<\/em> to translate that book should probably get an award).<\/p>\n

That’s all I can glean from Google Translate, except that they announce the winners in June and there’s no money involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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