Good news struck yesterday! A Sinister Quartet has made the 2020 Locus Recommended Reading List in the Anthologies category. You can vote to support our anthology, along with a bunch of really great books, novellas, stories, and collections, via the Locus poll. "The Twice-Drowned Saint," which is Claire's contribution to the Quartet, was also included... Continue Reading →
Reading Round-up: January 2021
Hello, hello! It's time for a Reading Round-up. I read a lot of books over the months of December and January, as might be expected, though most of December was taken up with a Kate Daniels re-read for reasons that will become apparent below. My TBR is huge right now because I also purchased a... Continue Reading →
Finding joy
I can't remember the first time I felt the total rightness of writing a scene, but I remember the first time I realized what I felt. I was nineteen, working on Child of Brii, and I cackled to myself when finishing out a paragraph. In that moment, the elation I felt was one of the... Continue Reading →
#seashantytok and The Joys of Collaboration
2021 is starting off in full dumpster-fire fashion, but it has also given rise to one of the best things I've ever seen on the internet. Let's talk about #seashantytok. https://twitter.com/BloodyDeath11/status/1348759448337186816 I've been watching the evolution of the Wellerman arrangements on TikTok with glee over the past few weeks. As you can see from the... Continue Reading →
Looking forward in 2021
Hello folks, and welcome to 2021. If you're like me you're not really feeling those resolutions this year. We're still in the middle of a pandemic, though vaccinations are dispersing somewhat, and we've got a few months more at best of our new, strange reality. And of course there is a lot of uncertainty right... Continue Reading →
The year in review
So hey, it's the end of December! I know it doesn't feel like it because this year has simultaneously gone on forever and passed in the blink of an eye. What is time? Does it have any meaning anymore? (That's rhetorical, we all know the answer is "no".) This year I did what feels like... Continue Reading →
My favorite books of 2020
Book ideas for your last minute holiday gifts!
My favorite short stories of 2020
I talk about some of my favorite short stories I've read this year.
The unplanned end of POP FIZZ, some blogpost fodder
Hey folks. This is 2020, and we're all on the struggle bus. Accordingly, I've been trying to cut back on my commitments, and one of the things I decided had to go, even though I've greatly enjoyed it, is POP FIZZ. The episodes are still out there in the world, so you can still listen... Continue Reading →
Reading Round-up: November edition
Happy Thanksgiving. If you, like me, have a virtual Thanksgiving this year then I wish you the best of luck with your wifi connection. In the meantime, here are the books I've been reading in order to get through my Covid-generated quarantine and general sense of weirdness this month. My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady... Continue Reading →
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