{"id":1297,"date":"2014-11-14T10:12:48","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T15:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2015.penguicon.org\/?p=1297"},"modified":"2014-11-19T10:11:09","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T15:11:09","slug":"charlie-jane-anders-is-a-guest-of-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2015.penguicon.org\/?p=1297","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Jane Anders is a Guest of Honor!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re very excited to announce that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.io9.com\">io9<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0Managing Editor <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/charliejane.com\/\">Charlie Jane Anders<\/a><\/strong> is coming to Penguicon as a<strong> Guest of Honor<\/strong>! She\u2019s hard at work on a fantasy novel with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/\">Tor.com<\/a>, who have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/bios\/authors\/charlie-jane-anders\">picked her up for two novels<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Her novelette <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/stories\/2011\/06\/six-months-three-days\"><em>Six Months, Three Days<\/em><\/a> won the <strong>2012 Hugo<\/strong>, and her novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Choir-Boy-Charlie-Anders\/dp\/1932360816\"><em>Choir Boy<\/em><\/a> won a <strong>Lambda Literary Award<\/strong>, both receiving other big nominations.<\/p>\n<p>She organizes the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.writerswithdrinks.com\/\">Writers With Drinks<\/a> reading series in San Francisco (which sounds like a convention without all that pesky conventioning).<\/p>\n<p>She co-edited the anthology <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Shes-Such-Geek-Science-Technology\/dp\/1580051901\">She\u2019s Such a Geek<\/a><\/em>\u00a0with Annalee Newitz and published an indy magazine called <em>other<\/em>. She\u2019s also contributed to Mother Jones, the Wall Street Journal, the San Francisco Chronicle, Strange Horizons, and many other publications.<\/p>\n<p>You can find more of her work in the McSweeney\u2019s Joke Book of Book Jokes, Best Science Fiction Of The Year 2009, Sex for America, and other anthologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re very excited to announce that io9\u00a0Managing Editor Charlie Jane Anders is coming to Penguicon as a Guest of Honor! She\u2019s hard at work on a fantasy novel with Tor.com, who have picked her up for two novels. Her novelette Six Months, Three Days won the 2012 Hugo, and her novel Choir Boy won a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1301,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2015.penguicon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2015.penguicon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2015.penguicon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2015.penguicon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2015.penguicon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2015.penguicon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2015.penguicon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2015.penguicon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2015.penguicon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2015.penguicon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}