food
Carrot Cake Cookies

If I had been a little more on my game, I would have done these before Easter, so that you could be all seasonal and have them on Easter if you wanted, but…it’s not like carrot cake ever goes out of fashion. It does, however, usually have one huge drawback, and I say this as […]

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books
In Praise Of: Paper Books

We can probably sum this entry up with one word: duh. But, let’s take a few more anyhow. After hearing that the Gateway books (The Heechee Saga) by Frederik Pohl were going to be turned into a television series, it made me curious to re-read the books. I read them for the first time in […]

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writing
In Praise Of: Short Stories

Apples are not mangoes, though both are fruits. Rabbits are not fish, but they’re both animals. Short stories are not novels, though both forms have things in common. Fantasy Faction, a place I was unfamiliar with until this morning, had some thoughts on Short Story Markets and Why They Are Important. Unfortunately, the piece, written […]

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photographs
Spoon Girls

Mostly, this is a post to show you some Highly Awesome Photographs from my family (mom’s side of the family). My great-grandmother (Mae; second from the left, back row), and a bunch of her friends were such good friends that they each bought twelve silver spoons engraved with their names, and traded, leaving each girl […]

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anubis
The Paper Anniversary

I suspect all authors dream of their stories and books getting reviews. Honest, even, and fair (by which I mean glowing and neon and lighting up the darkness that is the dark matter mass of an author’s heart). Friday, Ana Grilo at Kirkus (and also of The Book Smugglers) had this to say about Rings […]

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food
Arepas

I was scolded, and rightly so, for not sharing a recipe for arepas with my last post, but fear not and continue reading! These are one of the easiest things you can make; they’re so warm and comforting and just yum. I hadn’t had them in about two years because I am a slacker who […]

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food
Things You Will Always Carry

Last year, two important-to-me relationships came to their end. One of them was the kind of friendship you think you will always have — where the other person is like the sister you never biologically had. I’ve tried to write about this — fictionally and non-fictionally, and I kept hitting a wall. The right words […]

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food
Orange Blossom

Whenever anything awesome happens, Beth asks me how I’m going to celebrate, or what my reward is going to be. It can be big victories, or small, but she’s very big on rewarding oneself for a job well done, and I have come to see this is not a bad system at all. These have […]

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books
Shelfies: The Book of the Dead

Every so often, I get blind-sided by a book that I seemingly should have known about long before its publication. The Book of the Dead (from Jurassic London) is one such book. This book is so in my wheelhouse, because Egypt and history and mummies, and it’s a tremendous read. If this book were a […]

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books
Brainstorming

Off the top of my head, not meant to be exhaustive in any way, but it’s a good start: Marion Zimmer Bradley Kameron Hurley NK Jemisin Sharon Lee Anne McCaffrey Gwyneth Jones Jacqueline Harpman Andre Norton Karen Traviss Catherine Asaro CL Moore AC Crispin Sharon Shinn Kristine Kathryn Rusch Kathleen Ann Goonan Wendy Wagner Caroline […]

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