This was a hell of a long year for me; much of it felt like grinding through some hellish video game where every time you leveled up on one skill – say, your ability with a mace – you somehow actually *lost* stats on another skill, like your skill with an ax. And then you […]
Rollicking 2013 Roundup: My Life as a Grimdark Video Game Read More »
My body has always been a place of battle. When I was younger, it was personal, self-inflicted strife encouraged by schoolyard taunts of “water buffalo!” and “pig!” supplemented by family matriarchs who were permanently obsessed with the width of their own asses (and, very often, mine and that of my siblings), despite advanced degrees, working
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My article, “Making Excuses for Science Fiction” is in the December edition of Locus Magazine, now available for your reading pleasure (for those who haven’t bought a digital copy yet). “Telling people who don’t read science fiction and fantasy that I write it is still awkward. My mom used to tell people I wrote “novels
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As of tonight I’ll be ducking offline until January, primarily because I have a big social media blitz planned that month (I’ll be spending December writing 22 guest posts that will come out in January. Really). I’ve also got a few things I’m juggling right now, and some work to do regarding my day job
I’ve been dutifully churning through episodes of Leverage, a sort of modern-day Mission Impossible where a bunch of thieves go about righting wrongs caused to individuals by The Man (big corporations). But though I enjoyed the concept, I just wasn’t getting into the show. I just didn’t care enough about the people involved in it.
Who cares? On the importance of banter and character-driven narrative Read More »
The Golden Key is a lush, stand-alone epic fantasy novel I picked up back in the hazy 90’s because it was co-written by some of my favorite fantasy authors in my teens: Kate Elliott, Jennifer Roberson, and Melanie Rawn. This summary from TV Tropes is pretty good, though it forgets some key characters, which I’ll
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Covers! Covers! Covers! I’ve been getting a lot of questions about release dates for the second two books in the Bel Dame Apocrypha over in the UK. INFIDEL is set for May 1st, 2014 (with ebook possibly before then), and RAPTURE scheduled for the year after (sorry!). The good news is I have a cover
INFIDEL UK Cover Reveal, and GOD’S WAR Mass Market Cover Read More »
The upside to a nine-hour flight is that I got to catch up on a lot of movies on the way back. Here’s a round-up of what I saw, with rec’s as necessary: Good Fun Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters I wasn’t going to touch this movie with a ten foot pole, but a lot
Movie Roundup: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly Read More »
I hadn’t been to Europe in over ten years, so I was about due. Trips of this length have their drawbacks – costs being one, and exhaustion over the sheer logistics to get there being another. I’m pretty introverted, so navigating the astonishing mob of people en route to other places can be a nightmare.
Surviving an Extroverted World, Pondering the Soft Apocalypse Read More »
Last night I stayed up late to finish Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie. It’s been a long time since I stayed up late to finish a book. Way too long. If you follow SF/F book blogs or are active in SF/F circles on Twitter, you’ve probably already heard of Ancillary Justice. If you STILL have
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