{"id":14264,"date":"2021-02-15T14:23:45","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T19:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=14264"},"modified":"2021-02-15T15:49:41","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T20:49:41","slug":"episode-421-kate-maruyama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-421-kate-maruyama","title":{"rendered":"Episode 421 – Kate Maruyama"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 421:
\nKate Maruyama<\/a><\/p>\n

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“We’re all dealing with this, but I think we’re all processing what this new reality means, how it’s changing everything.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Author, editor and activist Kate Maruyama<\/a> rejoins the show to celebrate the publication of her wonderfully creepy new novella, Family Solstice<\/a> (Omnium Gatherum). We get into why she wrote a haunted house story at a time when everyone’s stuck in their homes, how she pushed herself to finish the book during the early months of the pandemic, and how Family Solstice<\/em> celebrates the great (and maybe a little haunted) home she grew up in. We get into what Kate’s mother, the late, great Kit Reed<\/a>, might have made of This Whole Situation we’re in, the positives of holding a virtual book tour (including the launch in a virtual version of her childhood home<\/a>), what her and her students’ pandemic-era fiction looks like, the joy of getting her first Asimov’s<\/a> publication last year, and more! Give it a listen!<\/a> And go read Family Solstice<\/a>!<\/p>\n

(And go listen to my 2019 conversation<\/a> with Kate and our COVID Check-In<\/a> podcast from May 2020)<\/em><\/p>\n