Author Archives: Ruth Nestvold

About Ruth Nestvold

Ruth Nestvold's short fiction has appeared in numerous markets, including Asimov's, F&SF, Baen's Universe, Strange Horizons, Scifiction, and Gardner Dozois's Year's Best Science Fiction. Her fiction has been nominated for the Nebula, Tiptree, and Sturgeon Awards. In 2007, the Italian translation of her novella "Looking Through Lace" won the "Premio Italia" award for best international work. Her novel Flamme und Harfe appeared in translation with the German imprint of Random House, Penhaligon, in 2009 and has since been translated into Dutch and Italian. She maintains a web site at www.ruthnestvold.com.

“Story Hunger” up on Amazon, a new mini collection – and various other updates

Posted on May 19, 2013

After getting my story collection with Jay Lake, Almost All the Way Home From the Stars, up on Draft2Digital, I decided to get one more big thing off my to-do list, and finished another collection of my own stories, Story … Continue reading →

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The Canadian Who Won’t be Returning From the Stars

Posted on May 16, 2013

Ooof. I finally got the first collection of SF stories I’ve written with Jay Lake up to Draft2Digital tonight, Almost All the Way Home From the Stars. Here’s the blurb: “Almost All the Way Home From the Stars” contains seven … Continue reading →

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Slowly but surely getting there on the paperback version of Yseult

Posted on May 11, 2013

This is what I spent most of the day on today: I’m not very Photoshop savvy, and my daughter was out and about today, so I decided to tackle it myself. Of course, I had the front cover of Yseult … Continue reading →

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On losing work (and other frustrations)

Posted on May 8, 2013

I spent several hours on Monday doing revisions of Island of Glass: addressing critique comments, filling holes, researching some things I’d left out. It felt really good to have a nice block of time for serious writing again, after all … Continue reading →

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Progress on various books and an interview with me

Posted on May 6, 2013

The weather was finally nice again for a change yesterday, so I took the day off and spent it in the garden. Everything’s a bit late this year, since winter went on forever, but right now, the tulips are blooming … Continue reading →

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Feature of Shadow of Stone today on the Kindle Boards blog

Posted on May 4, 2013

I don’t have much to add, other than I think it’s cool: http://www.kboards.blogspot.de/2013/05/shadow-of-stone-by-ruth-nestvold.html Will have more soon on the progress creating the first paper book. PDF has been created and is now being inspected by significant other.

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Announcing a new anthology with one of my stories – and a reminder of free ebooks

Posted on May 3, 2013

I just got the news this week that an anthology I sold a story to some time ago has finally come out in ebook, with print to follow: The theme of the book, Times of Trouble, is the much-maligned genre … Continue reading →

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A new story collection and upcoming freebies

Posted on April 28, 2013

Most of my time lately has been spent working on the new collection of stories I wrote with Jay Lake. A few years back, we collaborated on a number of stories together, both science fiction and fantasy. When I started … Continue reading →

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Trudging along in the ebook jungles

Posted on April 21, 2013

In the spirit of ROW80, I’ll try to emphasize what I did get done this week, rather than what I didn’t. Once I sent Chameleon in a Mirror sent off to my critique partner, I’ve mostly been working on writing … Continue reading →

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A new book trailer, and a request for help in making books free

Posted on April 17, 2013

As I mentioned in my last post, I got my Aphra Behn time travel, Chameleon in a Mirror, off to my critique partner on Monday, so that’s a big chunk out of my to-do list. Now that CIAM’s off, I’ve … Continue reading →

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