There was a little delay in terms of the availability of my debut novel Terminal 3’s print version, but that’s over. Feel free to order it on Amazon or Barnes and Noble. The other update is that I will be a panelist during the very first Fiyahcon, a convention celebrating BIPOC+ persons in speculative fiction. …
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Terminal 3 is out, or why do you need some Catharsis in your life right now
That’s right, the ebook version is out. The print version is slightly delayed due to issues to Ingram Spark that may or may not be related to the pos-Covid printing market issues (short version: big printing facilities closed doors and Ingram started getting huge assignments they were not designed for, what means delays for Indy …
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Terminal 3 – Updates
My novel has now a cover! And a release date: September 25th 2020! And an article on Tor.com analyzing my book! And a paperback pre-order link with the content that will be featured in the back of the book! And an ebook Amazon pre-order page! And a press release from my publisher!
Note on Comedy #3
This is an old insight of mine, from the years I wasted writing screenplays. As it is the case now with prose, some of my screenplays were comedies, some not. As I received rejection after rejection, I noticed a certain pattern: some of the rejections recurrently suggested that the readers found the screenplay too raucous …
Note on Comedy #2
I’m writing a story that involves a space elevator and a fart. The title: The Fizzles of Paradise. My spouse hated the concept so much that he said he wouldn’t even take a look at it nor do the initial proofreading that has been an essential part of my writing being viable in the anglophone …
Note on Comedy #1
I never liked the dogma that comedy is subjective. Yes, there are things that make me laugh and wouldn’t make a child or an elderly person amused. Comedy does rely on having access to a framework of knowledge and experiences (or lack of those, what explains why slapstick works so well with children). It IS …
New release: The Serpentine City
My SF/Noir short story The Serpentine City was published today by Hybrid Fiction (July 2020)!
The Non-Linear path to become a Science Fiction aficionado when you are born in a 3rd World Country (epilogue)
I started writing these posts with the intent of talking about how my itinerary as a reader of Science Fiction was unique, but the last posts became detours, as I got distracted from my original goal and talked about writing instead of reading. But the fact is that I would not be able to summarize …
The Non-Linear path to become a Science Fiction aficionado when you are born in a 3rd World Country (part 5)
It’s December the 10th of 2016. It’s a sunny morning as I disembark from the airplane in my final destination: Pittsburgh, which is partially covered in snow. The man I was going to officially marry was waiting for me by the conveyor belts. We hugged, we kissed, we went to our home to start our …
The Non-Linear path to become a Science Fiction aficionado when you are born in a 3rd World Country (part 4)
The chapter of my life that will describe below was quite painful. It took me a while to sit down to write it for that reason, and I did so in a way that is very shallow on purpose, basically just vomiting facts and omitting emotional experiences. I’m just filling a gap in the narrative …
Illimani Ferreira 