Valente

Like The City & The City, its central device is a parallel place visible just out of the corner of one's eye; but where Miéville takes this concept as background, hangs a murder mystery over it, and then disappoints with the big reveal at the end, in Valente's book the parallel city practically is the narrative, as her four protagonists work their way towards it and to the eventual climax.

A Letter to Diana Wynne Jones nwhyte 2010

Born in the Pacific Northwest in 1979, Catherynne M. Valente is the author of the Orphan's Tales series, as well as The Labyrinth, Yume no Hon: The Book of Dreams, The Grass-Cutting Sword, and five books of poetry.

MIND MELD: How Does Blogging and Social Networking Affect the Publishing Industry? 2009

Award-winning author Catherynne Valente is offering her new YA novel, The Girl Who Circimnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, on the internet on a donation model.

June 15th, 2009 matociquala 2009

Cathrynne Valente is every bit as good a writer as China Mieville, but she doesn't get the ink he gets, or the publicity budget.

INTERVIEW: Elizabeth Bear 2009

Born in the Pacific Northwest in 1979, Catherynne M. Valente is the author of the Orphan's Tales series, as well as The Labyrinth, Yume no Hon: The Book of Dreams, The Grass-Cutting Sword, and five books of poetry.

MIND MELD: More Nebula-Worthy Works of Fiction...Picked By Some of This Year's Nebula Nominees 2010

My complaint about Valente is that she didn't give us enough of each nested story to make us (me) care enough about it to come back to it.

Reading Update and Writing Lessons 2008

Born in the Pacific Northwest in 1979, Catherynne M. Valente is the author of the Orphan's Tales series, as well as The Labyrinth, Yume no Hon: The Book of Dreams, The Grass-Cutting Sword, and five books of poetry.

MIND MELD: Which Authors and Books Have Most Influenced Your Writing? 2008

My complaint about Valente is that she didn't give us enough of each nested story to make us (me) care enough about it to come back to it.

SeeLight: 2008

Or that Cat Valente is a worse writer than China Mieville?

the one they came to bury was not very heavy mandolinjen 2007

Sports says Troy Ellerman, a defense attorney who had worked for Victor Conte and James Valente, is under investigation in the FBI's probe of leaked grand jury evidence.

BALCO investigation timeline 2007