FYI: Next week Meorot SFF conference will take place virtually via live streaming, and there are three live events with authors (in English) that might interest some of you (full disclosure - I am usually part of the organizing committee when the con is happening in the outside world, but this year I haven't done much because my role is to be in touch with the compound supervisors when the conference is taking place in a physical place).
There will a conversation between Seanan McGuire and Keren Landsman on plagues (Thursday, 17/12, 6:00pm Israel time), and a conversation and a Q&A with Karin Lowachee (Thursday, 17/12, 7:00pm and 9:00pm Israel time, respectively).
The website is mostly in Hebrew, but I can help interested parties to buy tickets and access the live stream. A ticket to access everything is minimum 1.55$ (it's a pay-as-you-like system), including access to the conversations in the next 6 months. Let me know if you'd like to watch these events and I'll help.
:: waves at shir :: do you know folks from Nova Press? I met a few people in the past few years we might have in common?
Gary just got me the first two Murderbot novellas for Hanukkah. (I had mentioned to him that I put the first one on hold at the library as an ebook)
That is a very true statement. I'm wondering who else you met there - the ones I know are Didi at Nova, Rani at Graff, and Gili at Utz.
I picked up the first couple of Murderbot novellas on some $1.99 deal ages ago and then promptly went off and read other things. I finally started the first on in November and proved the efficacy of daily deal prices within a couple of weeks as I snapped up and plowed through all of them within weeks. It was rather nice to get caught up in a new world—I had a lot of trouble getting into anything new over the summer and into fall.
I also have The Goblin Emperor in my TBR pile. It sounds like a good thing to unearth over the holidays.
Shir - yes, I know Rani also! (ETA darnit autocarrot)