Fantasy and horror books and blogposts
Continuing into our World Fantasy inspired posts, this week we have a meditation on a trope that came up in the panel "Beards and Intrigue: Queering the Historical Fantastic" which I took to calling "Queering Beards" at some point. Sorry, everyone I've communicated with verbally about this panel. My verbal communication powers are generally negligible.... Continue Reading →
What a panel, friends. I am not kidding. I was so honored to share space with my co-panelists, Gary K. Wolfe, Kathleen Jennings, and David D. Levine. They were very passionate about the subject, and came to the panel ready to drop some serious knowledge. I'm not going to get everything we talked about in... Continue Reading →
So, World Fantasy Convention. What a whirlwind. This year’s convention theme was Secret Histories, and I’m sorry to say I missed a good chunk of the programming because of my flight schedule. What I did manage to catch was, with one exception, amazing. My next few weeks of blogposts will recap some of my favorite... Continue Reading →
Hey friends! This weekend I am in San Antonio for World Fantasy Convention 2017. The theme is "Secret Histories" and I am moderating a panel all about cities as palimpsests! The panel is called "The Role of Cities in Fantasy Settings" and it will be tomorrow morning at 10 am if anyone is in town.... Continue Reading →
Happy Halloween (almost)! This post is about zombies, and it's uncomfortable, but I hope that you will read it and enjoy on this weekend where the veil between life and death is thin. It seems particularly apt to reflect on zombies on this weekend of all weekends. Enjoy! I was sitting in the memorial garden... Continue Reading →
You may remember that we bought a house recently, which was pretty awesome and all, and now I have a house and I must mow the lawn. Mowing the lawn is actually pretty nice because it's an achievable goal that you finish, for better or worse, within about an hour usually. It's also a great... Continue Reading →
I went and saw Blade Runner last weekend and it was really, really good. Very loud, very bleak, but good. I definitely recommend watching the bridging shortfilms, though, for greater appreciation of some of the plot points. This movie gave me a lot of thoughts. I debated on what to focus on in my analysis... Continue Reading →
...to announce that I have started a Patreon! If you would like to support my work, please consider stopping by. Don't know what Patreon is? It's a service that lets you gain income for your work, and it's geared towards all types of creators. If you have been thinking of signing up, please consider using... Continue Reading →
My life has been on hold this week following a drastic and explosive vomiting episode on the part of my cat, Fidel, which led to him not eating or drinking for almost two days. I am using this as an excuse to postpone blogging about writerly stuff, since I honestly haven't had a moment to... Continue Reading →
After a rather fluffy and upbeat couple of posts last week, we're going down into the dark today. Trigger warning for sexual assault and spoilers for James Treadwell's Advent and Anarchy. Also I'm going to slightly spoil my own book, Mother of Creation, because I can and because I feel like I can't have this conversation without thinking about... Continue Reading →
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