Category Endurance
Author Interview: Me Chatting about Endurance
Ha! Looks like I drafted this but never published it. So not “Last month” but actually in December, for I Heart SapphFic’s Reading Challenge week of Sci-Fi, I was interviewed about my novel Endurance. If you need a break from current events and would like to get away to another star system, check it out. […]
What’s in a Name?
Naming my last book Endurance was easy. I had been inspired by Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic adventure (misadventure) aboard his own Endurance. I even made the story time match the length of time he and his crew were stranded. I decided, however, not to destroy the ship. Honestly, his real story was so improbable that I […]
Endurance Is a Winner!
In my first draft I buried the “lede,” so I’ll get it right out there: Endurance won a very nice Science Fiction/Fantasy award from the Golden Crown Literary Society. It comes with a very nice cash prize, too. I am, of course, thrilled. Endurance was also a finalist for the Ann Bannon Popular Choice award, […]
Endurance Is a Finalist!
I found out last night that Endurance is a finalist for the Golden Crown Literary Society’s Ann Bannon Popular Choice Award. This may not be a “big” award, but it’s one of the few groups devoted to promoting sapphic and women-loving-women literature, especially by small presses and indie authors. The big outfits, like Lambda Literary, […]
Works in Progress
I’ve been MIA on the blogging front. Ironically because I’ve been busy promoting Endurance but also distracted by life as well as crunching out a draft of Book 2, which follows Endurance and is now safely out for critique. With that off my desk, I launched into Book 3, which is incredibly exciting. I love […]
My First Solo Author Reading
Last week I gave my first solo reading. And it was in person. I hadn’t done any public reading since my short story collection came out, but that hardly mattered. There’s a huge difference between being given five to ten minutes with a bunch of other authors and having to fill an entire hour by […]
Q&A Part 3
More of my updated Q&A with the wonderful Women and Words (sadly “on hiatus”). A lot of the answers are still good, and I’ve updated others. Here’s the rest of me. Is there a book by another author that you wish you had written? I don’t know that there’s another book that I would like […]
Q&A Part 2
Several years ago, I did a Q&A with the wonderful Women and Words (sadly “on hiatus”). A lot of the answers are still good, and I’ve updated some others. Here’s Elaine! Part 2 Tell us about your biggest guilty pleasure. For example, do you sit naked in your pantry in the middle of the night […]
Setting: A Sense of Place
Have you ever been on a cruise? I’ve only done it once, a small-ship cruise in Alaska’s Inside Passage. The ship had about a hundred tourists and we were able to go into smaller coves and closer to the glaciers than the big Princess ship we saw a few times along the route. The contrast […]
Elaine Burnes 