Let’s talk about the fact that Amanda Berry is a hero, and that she rescued herself, her daughter, and two other women from a horrible situation. Let the record show that she did what she had to do, and if she hadn’t, those four women would still be in that house. Because the media seem to [...]
It’s finally Spring in New England (I got out of Wisconsin just in time, apparently; I beat the blizzard by a day) and I get to be home with my dog for a whole three weeks before I head back to the Midwest. With spring come the historical re-enactors. There’s a pile of them camped [...]
More photographic evidence: half-marathon finisher’s medal, propped up against two Hugos. And here’s Amanda in her race gear, looking very chic: (Do you know how hard it is to find good workout gear that’s not offensive to a Goth sensibility? Seriously, there’s a killing to be made in this area…. except it’s possible that there [...]
Amanda, Karen, and I saw the fireball last night, over Westport, CT. It was amazing and beautiful, and we actually mistook it for a firework it seemed so bright and close–green and orange and gold and shedding sparks all the way. Gorgeous: best one I have ever seen. And then Amanda and I got up [...]
Every damned time the topic of diversity in SFF comes up, somebody says something about “Well, if the story demands that the character be queer/disabled/black/trans/female/postcolonial/feminist, that’s one thing. But if you’re just putting it in to be politically correct***, then you’re bound by ideology, and that’s bad art.” … … … … … … …because [...]
So last summer, between 4th Street and ConVergence, I got fucking sick. I was at Scott’s place, far from home, and I started having lower GI pain. …it felt like gas. Bad gas. Really, really hurty, incapacitating gas. Okay, says I. I can deal with gas. Then it started to really hurt. I mean, really [...]
Shattered Pillars is out tomorrow in the US! (Probably already available today in many fine bookstores, because it’s not a hard on-sale date.) Book Two of the Eternal Sky trilogy continues the story of Re Temur, exiled heir to his grandfather’s Khaganate, and the Wizard Samarkar, Once-Princess of the Rasan Empire, as they struggle to [...]
There’s a publication date (or dates) for my dear Mr. Lynch’s Republic of Thieves, and it’s Pi Day! I’m going to tell you my favorite clean joke. It goes like this: In the rest of the world, when they say Yankee, they mean somebody from North America. In North America, when they say Yankee, they [...]
The standing desk is working out well so far. Although I ran four miles this morning, and my desire to be on my feet is… mitigated by that fact. However, there are incipient crocus emerging through the snow in the front yard, which means we’re well into Mud Season: and I got a box of [...]
Like many people in my line of work, I suffer from a few of the drawbacks of typing for a living. One of those is sedentism (a bunch of my writer friends and I tend to refer to our butts as our “street cred”–wordcount is produced by Butt In Chair) and another one is the [...]