the invisible library

Q&A: Genevieve Cogman (the Invisible Library series).

As you folks hopefully know, Genevieve Cogman is a British fantasy writer who has just come out with two books (The Invisible Library and The Masked City) set in her Invisible Library series. Well, actually, the books have been out for a while in Great Britain; it’s just that we’re only getting them now in the United States. I reached out to Genevieve with some questions about the books, which she was gracious enough to reply to: you’ll find her answers below. Let me note in passing, by the way, that I paid extra to get my hands on the British editions of both books, and I was very happy to do so. Make of that what you will.

So, onto the questions! Continue reading Q&A: Genevieve Cogman (the Invisible Library series).

Book of the Week: The Invisible Library (cc @GenevieveCogman).

Blipping well TOOK the Post Office long enough to get me Genevieve Cogman’s first novel The Invisible Library; mind you, I had to special-order the sucker from England. You would think that, in these halcyon days of digital inter-connectivity, we could dispense with the ridiculous notion that the British and American editions of a book cannot be published simultaneously. You would be wrong. Continue reading Book of the Week: The Invisible Library (cc @GenevieveCogman).

…This is an exercise in frustration.

So I ordered Genevieve Cogman’s The Invisible Library and The Masked City, because you can do that when you have third-party sellers who find this nonsense about different printing schedules in the USA and the UK as pointless as I do. And the books will arrived! Half of the books have arrived! …Out of order. The first book in the series is still in the mail. And I will probably get it… tomorrow. Wednesday at the latest. Meanwhile, there’s the second book in the series, and it taunts me. TAUNTS!

…What?. This is actually messing up my schedule. I fully expect that The Invisible Library will end up making Book of the Week as soon as I get to actually read it: Genevieve Cogman is one of the few people out there who I will actually admit is a better writer than I am. So I’d like the book now, please.

ZOMG Genevieve Cogman is guest-blogging for Charlie Stross!

AND she’s going to have books out in the USA in April! Excuse me: I need to go order The Invisible Library and The Masked City now.

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Annnnnd… done! Should get copies in my hands by the middle of next month – what’s that? They said ‘April?’ Yes, well, that’s for people who don’t know their way around Amazon.

Moe Lane

PS: For those wondering why I’m so excited, let me put it this way: back in the late Nineties I did a lot of fan stuff for a roleplaying game called In Nomine. It still remains my favorite RPG setting (angels and demons on modern earth), in fact. I am not going to be modest, here: I was very good.

Genevieve was better.