{"id":36077,"date":"2024-12-06T09:40:11","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T14:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/?p=36077"},"modified":"2024-12-06T09:40:11","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T14:40:11","slug":"r-s-a-garcia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2024\/12\/06\/r-s-a-garcia\/","title":{"rendered":"Share scallops with R. S. A. Garcia in Episode 242 of Eating the Fantastic"},"content":{"rendered":"

The final Eating the Fantastic guest you get to join at the table during the Glasgow Worldcon<\/a> — following Jenny Rowe<\/a>, Wole Talabi<\/a>, Paul Cornell<\/a>, and Gareth L. Powell<\/a> — is R. S. A. Garcia.<\/p>\n

Garcia won both the\u00a0Nebula Award and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for her short story \u201cTantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200,\u201d published in Uncanny<\/em><\/a> , and was a Nebula\u00a0finalist the previous year as well for\u00a0her novella\u00a0 \u201cBishop’s Opening,\u201d which appeared in Clarkesworld<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0She is also the winner of the MIFRE Media Award, and a Sturgeon, Locus, Ignyte and Eugie Foster Award finalist.\u00a0Her short fiction has appeared in venues such as Escape Pod<\/em>, Strange Horizons<\/em>, and Internazionale Magazine<\/em>, as well as\u00a0a number of anthologies, including the The Best of World SF<\/em>, The Best Science Fiction of the Year<\/em>, and The Apex Book of World SF<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Her Amazon bestselling science fiction mystery, Lex Talionis<\/em>, received a starred review from Publishers Weekly<\/em> and the Silver Medal for Best Scifi\/Fantasy\/Horror Ebook from the Independent Publishers Awards.\u00a0Her sci-fantasy duology, beginning with The Nightward<\/em>, was published by Harper Voyager US in October, plus The Unbearable Taste of Fruit and Wine<\/em> will be out next Valentine\u2019s Day from Android Press.<\/p>\n

We discussed how the idea for her Nebula-winning short story caused her to leap up and walk out of a writing workshop, how editor Ellen Datlow’s advice changed her life, why writing is a verb, not an adjective, the way she decides whether or not to rise to the occasion of a themed anthology invite, her convoluted journey in finding an agent to negotiate her first novel sale even though there was already an offer on the table, why there are some rejections you should be grateful for, how Sigourney Weaver’s role in Alien<\/em> inspired the sorts of stories she wanted to tell, the Easter eggs in her fiction only a Trinidadian would get, how and why she’s a complete pantser, the importance of community as well as the danger of it disappearing, her hope that readers get even more from her fiction upon rereading, \u00a0and much more.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s how you can join us for lunch at Two Fat Ladies at The Buttery<\/a> — <\/p>\n

1) Subscribe at Apple Podcasts<\/a> — or wherever<\/a> you choose to consume your podcasts — where I hope you’ll be tempted to sample a few of the 241 previous episodes.<\/p>\n

2) Listen via the RSS feed of http:\/\/eatingthefantastic.libsyn.com\/rss<\/a> on the device of your choice.<\/p>\n

3) Or simply use the embed below.<\/p>\n