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The Discommodious Wedding cited as Aliette de Bodard’s favorite novelette of 2015

The Discommodious Wedding, third book of The Elephant and Macaw Series, has been cited by Aliette de Bodard as her favorite novelette of 2015, in her interview at The Book Smugglers. For those unaware of her work, Aliette is a writer of speculative fiction, with stories that have appeared in Interzone, Clarkesworld Magazine and the Year’s Best Science Fiction, among others. She won the Nebula Award in 2012 and 2013. This year marked the launch of her amazing new novel, The House of Shattered Wings, published by Gollancz.

 

You can see the interview here. Be sure to check it out! There’s lots of  great recommendations there.

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Many thanks to Alliete!

The Elephant and Macaw Banner in the Whitney Plantation Museum of Slavery

I’m honored to announce the contribution that The Elephant and Macaw Banner was able to make to the Whitney Plantation Museum of Slavery.

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Last year, Dr. Ibrahima Seck, Academic Director of the museum, entered in contact with me and Leonardo Amora, asking permission to include the painting “Arrival in Salvador” as part of their permanent collection. I had commissioned this painting from Amora back in 2010, to represent Gerard’s arrival in Salvador, although it just as easily represents the tragic arrival of the slave ships from Africa. Both of us readily agreed to donate a permanent license to the museum. You can also find the image on their website, listed as “Portuguese Caravel”.

I’m honored that The Elephant and Macaw Banner was able to make this contribution, however small, to further education about the terrible past of slavery in the Americas. Education is the only way we can begin to correct the effects of these wrongs which continue on today.

If you’re ever near Wallace, Louisiana, please pay the museum a visit and see for yourself the incredible educational work they’re doing there.

Partnership with Rockhead Games

Rockhead Games Announces Partnership with Award-Winning Author Christopher Kastensmidt

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Kastensmidt to produce transmedia content for platform-adventure game Starlit Adventures

PORTO ALEGRE, October 14, 2015 – Rockhead Games, publisher of mobile hits Starlit Adventures, Master of Words and Pixel Shaper, announced today its partnership with Consultacad, company of award-winning author and game designer Christopher Kastensmidt. Under the agreement, Consultacad is developing transmedia content for Rockhead’s platform-adventure title Starlit Adventures, a title that has already attracted millions of players in Latin America and China and is set to launch worldwide in November 19th. In the first phase of this agreement, Kastensmidt has overseen expansion of the game’s universe and produced three graphic stories, to be published in digital and print formats.

“We are extremely excited to have Christopher working with us on this project,” states Christian Lykawka, president of Rockhead Games. “His work with games, prose, and comics has received notice around the world. Since our initial talks, we’ve seen that he is the perfect fit for this project. His creativity and transmedia vision is taking our storytelling to another level.”

Christopher, a former Creative Director of Ubisoft Brazil, has worked on thirty video games, totaling millions of units sold, and has stories, books, and comics published in a dozen countries. “I’m thrilled that Rockhead is providing me this opportunity to flex my transmedia muscles, working a narrative across games and comics,” says Christopher Kastensmidt. “Starlit Adventures is an amazing game with enormous world-building opportunities, the Rockhead team has created a truly unique world. This partnership is going to allow us to create something very special.”

About Rockhead Games

Rockhead Games was founded in 2010 by industry veterans Christian Lykawka and Fernando D’Andrea, who brought with them a combined 30 years of experience in video game production. Their new venture has produced mobile hits Starlit Adventures, Master of Words and Pixel Shaper and the location-based game Item Quest.

About Starlit Adventures

Starlit Adventures is an original platform-adventure game specially designed for mobile. It brings hours of fun with intuitive controls, unique characters, beautiful visuals, and a wide range of gameplay mechanics to deliver a valuable and memorable experience.

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Website: http://starlitadventures.com/

Press kit: http://www.starlitadventures.com/press/sheet.php?p=starlit_adventures

Available on Amazon, KOBO, NOOK, and Apple

The first three novelettes of The Elephant and Macaw Banner series are now available on Amazon, KOBO, NOOK, and Apple for just $0.99 each.

Back in 2011, “The Fortuitous Meeting”, the first of these titles, was a finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Novelette. The other two novelettes–“A Parlous Battle” and “The Discommodious Wedding”–are both available for the first time in English.

You can find all three novelettes on Amazon, KOBO, NOOK, and Apple.

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