I love, love, love this review of my debut collection Slipping: Stories, Essays and Other Writing, from Metaphysical Circus Press’ lit review blog, See The Elephant: Here’s a snip: “Lauren Beukes, judging from these tales, is one of the best fictional chroniclers of modern life per se. If many of the stories use science fiction tropes, it’s with a […]
Sometimes reviews tell you things you hadn’t realized about your book, that you can later nod sagely and claim, “Oh yeah, that’s totally what I was doing. Planned it all along. Glad you picked up on that.” Sometimes reviews teach you cool new words, like uchronia, which was casually bust out in this write-up by […]
There was some awesome coverage on The Shining Girls on the weekend, just in time for the UK release (It’s out now! You can buy it!) and for the official launch at Forbidden Planet tonight. Here’s the interview I did with Leigh-Anne Williams on Expresso Show last week: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEOXS0m3l3g&feature=youtu.be Sarah Hughes at The Observer said: “It should […]
The Shining Girls hit the shelves in the UK today! Which makes today crazy happy and crazy stressful. Eeek! It’s lovely to see the response on Twitter and blogs so far. You can pick it up from all major bookstores, some major supermarkets or order online by clicking here. Here’s the trailer by the evil […]