Multipass goes to Fhlostan Paradise
Mondays are hard enough, yes? Especially after weekends full of Internet drama and hijinx. So, here’s your multipass to better things. Artist Henrique Naspolini is rocking a fierce lady in some fierce armor. Is her Name Baby Cakes? Cracks me up! Editor Silvia Moreno-Garcia wants to publish an anthology of Lovecraftian fiction written entirely by women, […]
Lucky Thirteen
“Persistence wasn’t an end game. It was the name of the road.” –Kameron Hurley I started submitting my fiction seriously in 1999. The first markets I hit included Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy, Realms of Fantasy, The Silver Web, Weird Tales, Pulp Eternity, Asimov’s, and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. The last one […]
LetterMo
A few Februarys ago, Mary decided there should be a letter month, as there is also a novel-writing month. If one wrote 50,000 words on a novel, one could surely send 23 letters in February. Couldn’t they? # When I was a wee Elise, my grandfather Tobler showed me a collection of leather-bound books he […]
The Women We Don’t See
Friend and writer Christopher DeFilippis recently published his annual round up of books, a thing he has been doing for ages and aeons and will hopefully do for ages and aeons more. Like me, Chris reads a LOT and has opinions about what he reads. But his top five from 2013 struck me as curious […]
Lemonade in February
Sometimes, you just want lemonade, even it’s winter. And sometimes you think hey, lemonade cake would be great, because lemonade and cake. But that’s often where it falls apart, because most of the time, it doesn’t seem like lemonade cake recipes take into account the extra sugar you’re getting from the lemonade. They just add […]
Orange Heart
“…are we still friends?” a friend asked me after the Broncos fell (were squashed, obliterated, etc.) to the Seahawks. Said friend lives in Seahawk Country, see, and I, as anyone who knows me knows, am very much a Bronco girl. My heart is orange, orange, orange. Why in the world would we not be friends? […]
Worth Flowers
I used to buy myself flowers. Just a small bouquet of supermarket carnations, because I find them ruffly and pretty and they come in a billion different colors. It’s pleasant to have a bouquet of such on my desk or by my bed in a pretty vase — usually an old ink well, or a […]
#cakefail
Lately, I like baking the cake more than I like eating the cake, so to have a baking session turn into 90% disaster is pretty rare and pretty disappointing. I was gifted with Modern Art Desserts for Christmas (a cookbook where the sweets are inspired by modern works of art), and determined that I should […]
Big Bang Theory
Dear Big Bang Theory, There is so much I love about you, but also? We need to talk. Don’t get that look on your face. Sit down — I’ve got a hot beverage and we can sing “Soft Kitty” later if that helps. But either way, we’re talking. You do so many awesome things. You […]
Bloomin’ Yeast
I always wanted to learn how to make bread, but yeast was somehow terrifying. Maybe because it’s ALIVE and every recipe talked about how you want to be careful about feeding it and not killing it, and wow, as if unexpected caterpillar motherhood wasn’t enough! (He’s still in the fridge, still burritoed up in his […]