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Author Introduction: Laura Anne Gilman
Feb. 16th, 2011 07:46 amAs part of the promo for the After Hours: Tales From the Ur-bar release, I figured I’d highlight all of the contributors to the anthology individually. And while we’re at it, run a contest as well! So here’s the deal, to enter the contest you have to either friend the ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
afterhoursurbar community here on LiveJournal OR you have to like the After Hours: Tales From the Ur-bar Facebook page (search for the title of the anthology to find the page). If you do both, you’re entered into the contest twice! The contest will end March 31st, 2011. Prizes will include copies of the contributors books (sometimes entire trilogies), After Hours: Tales From the Ur-bar M&Ms, and perhaps other prizes. They will be awarded by random drawing from those who’ve liked or friended the appropriate pages. If you’ve already friended or liked the pages, then you’re already entered into the contest! Find out more about the anthology at its website!
And now for the eleventh contributor: Laura Anne Gilman (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
suricattus)! Laura Anne’s contribution to the anthology is the short story Paris 24, which refers to the Olympics, set in Paris in 1924. Some of the U.S. fencers take a night off before the competition to visit one of Paris’ finer bars . . . the Ur-bar of course. Here’s the official description:
"Paris 24" by Laura Anne Gilman: A team of fencers arrives in Paris for the 1924 Olympics and during a night out on the town one of the athletes discovers there’s more to life than fame and glory.
I honestly can’t be certain when I met Laura Anne . . . my guess would be at Lunacon, during the "disaster" hotel (when it wasn’t at the Escher hotel). I think Jennifer Dunne introduced us over some discussion over jewelry. Since then, we’ve been to numerous cons together, had many signings, and held a few rather successful parties. Here’s her author bio from the anthology:
Laura Anne Gilman has a history of writing short stories that aren’t quite as-expected. This is nothing new: she wrote her first original novel, Staying Dead, when everyone said that urban fantasy was dead, and, in 2008 she wrote The Vineart War, an alternate-historical fantasy, when everyone was looking for urban fantasy. She thinks being contrary’s a pretty good way to build a career. It should be noted that, despite The Vineart War being about wine-magic, and despite the story being set in France, the story for this anthology does not reference wine, but rather a specifically evil sort of cocktail popular at the time . . . the author does not encourage consumption of more than three in an evening!
We’ll be giving away the first three books in her Retrievers series as part of the contest!
afterhoursurbar community here on LiveJournal OR you have to like the After Hours: Tales From the Ur-bar Facebook page (search for the title of the anthology to find the page). If you do both, you’re entered into the contest twice! The contest will end March 31st, 2011. Prizes will include copies of the contributors books (sometimes entire trilogies), After Hours: Tales From the Ur-bar M&Ms, and perhaps other prizes. They will be awarded by random drawing from those who’ve liked or friended the appropriate pages. If you’ve already friended or liked the pages, then you’re already entered into the contest! Find out more about the anthology at its website!And now for the eleventh contributor: Laura Anne Gilman (
suricattus)! Laura Anne’s contribution to the anthology is the short story Paris 24, which refers to the Olympics, set in Paris in 1924. Some of the U.S. fencers take a night off before the competition to visit one of Paris’ finer bars . . . the Ur-bar of course. Here’s the official description:"Paris 24" by Laura Anne Gilman: A team of fencers arrives in Paris for the 1924 Olympics and during a night out on the town one of the athletes discovers there’s more to life than fame and glory.
I honestly can’t be certain when I met Laura Anne . . . my guess would be at Lunacon, during the "disaster" hotel (when it wasn’t at the Escher hotel). I think Jennifer Dunne introduced us over some discussion over jewelry. Since then, we’ve been to numerous cons together, had many signings, and held a few rather successful parties. Here’s her author bio from the anthology:
Laura Anne Gilman has a history of writing short stories that aren’t quite as-expected. This is nothing new: she wrote her first original novel, Staying Dead, when everyone said that urban fantasy was dead, and, in 2008 she wrote The Vineart War, an alternate-historical fantasy, when everyone was looking for urban fantasy. She thinks being contrary’s a pretty good way to build a career. It should be noted that, despite The Vineart War being about wine-magic, and despite the story being set in France, the story for this anthology does not reference wine, but rather a specifically evil sort of cocktail popular at the time . . . the author does not encourage consumption of more than three in an evening!
We’ll be giving away the first three books in her Retrievers series as part of the contest!
