Jo Walton

@bluejo

Writer of SF and fantasy. Superintelligent shade of the colour blue. "Even better than cold carrots." Vocateur reader. Philhellenist. Loves tea, trains, travel.

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Jo Walton@bluejo· Jul 7

Montreal people, don't forget, Everybody's Perfect book launch this evening at Argo, with masks!

Jo Walton@bluejo· Jul 7

More Everybody's Perfect mask aliens, here's a Lindassi lady (maybe Shiriel) with a little dog.

A woman holding a dog. She's wearing a mask with many flowers piled on her head where you'd expect hair, and her colours are pink and yellow. She has (it's the mask) a very serious expression.

Jo Walton@bluejo· Jul 7

Continuing my Everybody's Perfect masks theme, here's a Bauta gondolier

A person in a Bauta mask wearing black with a canal behind

Jo Walton@bluejo· Jul 7

People have asked about the mask aliens in Everybody's Perfect, so here is a Laodikan (left) and a Zanguo enjoying Venice.

Two people in black and white, with black feather manes instead of hair, one with a bird mask and one with a domino, We'd read the bird one as male and the other as female. In the background, the Marciana library and St Marks, and some Venetians.

Jo Walton@bluejo· Jul 4

Sundaes at Juliette & Chocolat this morning to celebrate the release of Everybody's Perfect. The chocolate one was mine, and tasted even better than it looks! @gretchenmcculloch.com

Everybody's Perfect book on a wooden table, and three ice-cream sundaes in glasses, one with red (strawberry) one brown (banana and fleur-de-del caramel) and one brown (chocolate and brownie bits)

Jo Walton@bluejo· Jul 3

Ten years today since @adapalmer.bsky.social's Too Like the Lightning came out! Still my favourite series of the twenty-first century so far.

Cover of Too Like the Lightning, flying cars, a city on a crag, warm pink and gold colours.

Jo Walton@bluejo· Jun 30

Today! My first novel in six years! Everybody's Perfect! Delany once titled a story "A Tale of Plagues and Carnivals." But what if more plague and more carnivals? What if Venice but less substantial? And more magical? With immigration and friendship? It's a bit weird but I hope you like it anyway.

Everybody's Perfect, artfully arranged on an antique map of Italy with part of my toy Venetian bookshelf and a cool pen that was a gift from Novacon when I was GoH in 2013. Photo, concept, and artful arrangement by my daughter Alex Walton, and the map is hers too.

Jo Walton@bluejo· Jun 28

Just four days until Everybody's Perfect comes out! My first new novel since 2020, a story in nine hands of fantasy Venice. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Venice, a bridge over a canal, with people crossing it, too far away to see any details. In the distance, a tower is dissolving into mist.

A twirly iron gate in a stone wall that opens directly onto a canal.

Jo Walton@bluejo· Jun 26

Just four days before my new Venice novel Everybody's Perfect hits the shelves, and here are my author copies arranged with some tapestry cushions! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Box full of copies of Everybody's Perfect, and a Venetian tapestry cushion and a Florentine tapestry cushion, on an Ikea chair.

Jo Walton@bluejo· Jun 24

Six days until Everybody's Perfect comes out, my first novel since 2020, and here's a picture of me with my author copies not looking weird at all... maybe this should be my author photo for this book!

So it's me in a Venetian mask belonging to my daughter, holding copies of Everybody's Perfect and wearing a blue hat and a blue t-shirt

Jo Walton@bluejo· Jun 23

One week from today, Everybody's Perfect comes out! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Two mysterious people in Venetian masks holding copies of Everybody's Perfect, against a background of bookshelves.

Jo Walton@bluejo· Jun 23

One week from today, Everybody's Perfect will be out! Two weeks from today, I'm doing a book launch event for it at Argo, on Ste Catherine near Guy metro, Montreal. There will be reading and signing.

Jo Walton@bluejo· Jun 9

Incredibly, three weeks today EVERYBODY'S PERFECT (my first new novel since 2020) will be released! Gorgeous cover by Caroline Jamhour

Cover of Everybody's Perfect in which a person with a mask under a mask is holding lots of masks, with the Rialto bridge visible behind, strongly suggesting Venice and masks. It's also in shades of purples, which is really neat.

Jo Walton@bluejo· May 25

#SomethingBeautiful Venice. This is an example of something I talk about in Everybody's Perfect. The close up stuff is clear and in focus, and the further away stuff is a bit misty and the distance is just hazed away.