By the Numbers
It’s always interesting to look back and see how the year went — isn’t it? (Isn’t it?! Well, okay, in some respects. Not counting: how many pints of gelato consumed, or friends lost to cancer.) But writingwise: sales, rejections, submissions, # markets to sale, published, pending, words written in total. Stories I trunked? New stories […]
Gifted
Long ago and far away, there were remarkable things called bookplates. They seem to have fallen out of fashion in the present age, which I find disappointing, as I always liked them (which is to say I was absolutely addicted). A bookplate is a small and gorgeous sticker that you can put in a book; […]
2014, In Review
It’s somewhat ridiculous that the very idea of this post is making me melancholy around the edges. 2014 has been a strange year. Apparently I wrote about the end of the world a lot — but sometimes the end isn’t always the end. Here’s what I published: Original Short Stories: Once, Upon a Lime, Strange […]
Ticker
I am super excited to welcome Lisa Mantchev to the site today to tell us about her new book, TICKER. Ticker contains (squee!) a steampunk bakery — hello, my one true love! Lisa was awesome enough to answer some questions, too — and if you’re bright eyed enough, you might spy a clue in her […]
Why It Matters
The November/December 2014 issue of F&SF contains fiction by men and men alone. I brought this up on Twitter. According to Tangent Online: The issue reacts to Internet intolerance of difference by gathering what the editor describes as “stories that deal with touchy themes or go beyond the bounds of Political Correctness.” In other words, […]
A Map to the Fairy Lands
When preparing to embark upon a journey through fairy woods and lakes, it’s important to remember who you are and where you are going. One little distraction can lead you astray, and what then? What should you do when you encounter the fairy hordes? (Running and screaming might effective, but then again they may just […]
ArcheAge
ArcheAge is my first MMO, which strikes me as very strange, but it’s true! A friend talked it up enough that I was eager to check it out, and the early verdict is “I’m addicted, but!” We’re not going to debate paying players versus F2P (I’m F2P right now, fyi); we’re not going to debate […]
Fairy Tracks
One of the most important things any author does is make a playlist. It must be second only to making a Pinboard (though back in MY day when we walked up hill to school both ways in the snow and fought the fairy hordes, we glued magazine photos in composition notebooks)… A playlist is one […]
Fairy Places
I can’t remember the first speculative fiction I read; Narnia, Middle Earth, Oz, and Wonderland were all places I frequently visited in my childhood. I seemed to like stories best when a normal person fell into an extraordinary place populated with extraordinary people and found they were extraordinary in their own right. This holds true […]
Bubbly, Melty Goodness
I haven’t fed you in a while, so here’s the latest recipe I’ve been playing around with. Quinoa enchilada casserole hails from Damn Delicious, but… Guys? I have changed this up, because I found their recipe a little strange. It wasn’t even the quinoa I found strange — the quinoa works perfectly as a tortilla […]