Antigone, Original Amazing Punk Bitch
All great ideas come in the shower. It is axiomatic. At least I think this is a great idea. I want to run it by you guys before I commit to it–maybe it is not a great idea! i trust you to tell me to...
View ArticleNews From Around the World
For your reading pleasure, a selection of Things I have posted at Charles Stross’s blog during my tenure there (still going for two more weeks) and absence here: You Are What You Love: A Numerical List...
View ArticleLocus, Nebulas, Deathless Paperback, and Boskone
So! A couple of things and then one more. One, the Locus Poll is up. I, er, showed rather well. I have something in all the fiction categories, and sometimes more than one thing which is BANANAS...
View ArticleOMG Nebula! OMG Philcon!
EXCITING THINGS HAVE HAPPENED! I was at Boskone all weekend, which was crazy and wonderful by turns. It’s been about eight months since I’ve been to a con and it was amazing to not be burned out on...
View ArticleShow and Tell
I’ll be finishing my run at Charlie Stross’s blog this week, so I should be back with big thought-chunk essays here in my own bed next week. I miss you guys! You are kind of the best commentariat on...
View ArticleReading Roundup
Am done with my month of guest blogging for Charles Stross, so I’ll be back here, hopefully starting tomorrow with HARDCORE TITS TO THE WALL CONTENT. In the meantime, in case you missed them over the...
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Unf**king My Relationship with Technology
Cross-posted from my tumblr, with gifs, because that’s how I roll over there, because I think it’s important enough to say twice. I gotta be honest, my relationship with technology has gotten a little...
View ArticleThings Which Are Happening
Tonight I am reading at the NYRSF event at the Soho Gallery for Digital Art! It’s an Under the Moons of Mars event, so I’ll be reading from my Barsoom story. I hope to see some of you there–I have been...
View ArticleGirl Grit: Feminism, Westerns, Sherlock, and Erasure
For reasons almost entirely irrelevant to this post, I have been mucking about with Westerns of late. I’ve seen a rather obscene number of That Sort of Film due to having grown up in California...
View ArticleThe Amazing Technicolor Localcoat: The Economics of Etsy
The Etsy blog just posted this story about a woman’s quest to completely locally source a coat. It’s presented as a great success, a doable thing (even though the coat cost $900) and a harbinger of, or...
View ArticleA Writer’s Education: My Promise to the State of Maine
Last night I went to speak at a local elementary school about The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland. It was a good event with a nice turnout, with a bunch of really eager and interested kids who don’t...
View ArticleAmerican Politics Are A Black, Morbid Circus and We’re All Crammed in...
There comes a time when you look up from your constant work and open the windows to let the spring breezes of current events in and take a deep fucking lungful only to say: What the fresh hell is going...
View ArticleI Am the Walrus
You never know what a school visit will be like. If the kids will have read your book or not, if they will be engaged and interested or bored and distant. If they will open up to you or shy away, since...
View ArticleThe Tears of Christopher Priest
The Arthur C. Clarke Award shortlist came out. Christopher Priest, who you may remember from The Prestige, does not approve of it no way no how. Now, I actually like his post. I’m not going to call it...
View ArticleOh Way Out West, They Have a Name
Last night, over a pot of coq au vin and a bottle of vodka, I sat at my table and sang songs with my husband, Laurie Penny, Peter Beagle, Peter’s agent Connor, and Connor’s partner Terri. Peter and I...
View ArticleLet Me Tell You About the Birds and the Bees: Gender and the Fallout Over...
I keep thinking about the Priest situation. You know, the one where a well known male writer took to the internets to blast the Clarke Award list, make some pointed critiques, call authors, including...
View ArticleOH MY GOD HUGO
It has been quite a pair of days on these here Internets. The post on gendered discourse is very probably going to clock in as the most popular post I’ve ever written in ten years of LJ. For sure it’s...
View ArticleGonna Go Back In Time: Wisconsin’s Legalized Sexism
It’s ok. You guys can tell me. We all secretly went back in time, right? That’s the only way I can get my head around Wisconsin’s repeal of their Equal Pay Act on the argument that “Money is more...
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Fairyland 2 Cover Joy
The ARCs arrived on my doorstep over the weekend. The illustrations are heartbreakingly amazing. The cover is…well. Just look. September has longed to return to Fairyland after her first adventure...
View ArticleHeaded Across the Pond in May (Finland Trip)
As some of you know, I’m the Guest of Honor for Acon 5 in Mariehamn, Finland. I am SUPER EXCITED ABOUT THIS. Also, my husband Dmitri is coming with me! This is awesome, as he rarely gets to accompany...
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