May 16 at 11:00 AM Pacific Time
The Curve of the World, Vonda N. McIntyre’s Last Book with Nisi Shawl, L. Timmel Duchamp, and Debbie Notkin
The Curve of the World is Vonda N. McIntyre’s final novel. When she died in 2019, the manuscript was complete. Once Aqueduct acquired the book, bringing it to publication involved a collaborative process between four people: Nisi Shawl, Debbie Notkin, Kath Wilham, and Timmi Duchamp. These four worked carefully to be as faithful as possible to Vonda’s intentions and spent months in an editing process that ensures Vonda’s voice is preserved throughout.
Join us for a virtual reading and conversation with the team that brought Vonda N. McIntyre’s last book to the world!
This is a virtual event and will begin at 11:00 A.M. Pacific Time.
About the speakers:
Nisi Shawl is a multiple-award-winning writer and editor and a 1992 graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop. Their novel Everfair was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel, and the short story collection Filter House won the James Tiptree Jr. Award. They cofounded the Carl Brandon Society to help give people of color greater visibility in the science fiction and fantasy worlds, and their “Writing the Other” workshops and accompanying book (co-created with Cynthia Ward and K. Tempest Bradford) have taught thousands of writers new ways of thinking about diversity and representation within fiction. Nisi received the Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Speculation is their first novel for young readers. Website: www.nisishawl.com
L. Timmel Duchamp is the founder and publisher of Aqueduct Press, which has been publishing a broad range of feminist speculative fiction since 2004. She is also the author of the Marq’ssan Cycle, which was awarded a Special Honor by the 2009 Otherwise jury, as well as of several other novels, three collections of short fiction, and numerous uncollected stories, for which she has been a Nebula and Sturgeon Award finalist and short-listed numerous times for the Otherwise Award. She lives in Seattle. Website: https://www.aqueductpress.com
Debbie Notkin has been a science-fiction and fantasy acquisitions editor (Tor Books), a science-fiction and fantasy bookstore owner (The Other Change of Hobbit, Berkeley, California), as well as a reviewer, essayist, and appreciator of the field. She is active in helping run WisCon, the world’s largest feminist science-fiction convention. She is the chair of the James Tiptree Award motherboard. She wrote the text for Women En Large: Images of Fat Nudes, and Familiar Men: A Book of Nudes, both with photography by Laurie Toby Edison. She blogs about body image and related topics at Body Impolitic www.laurietobyedison.com/discuss