My friends, I am still on vacation. So your post this week will be delayed until my return. See you then!
Feminist YA SFF by Melissa Eastlake
Greetings! By the time you read this, I will probably be in Canada enjoying some maple-syrup-covered delights. That's what people eat in Canada, right? In all seriousness, I'm told the bagels use maple syrup somehow and it makes them extra delicious. This week, we have a lovely post by Melissa on her favorite feminist speculative... Continue Reading →
The Mabinogi: A guest post by Rachel Fletcher
Hey, friends! As you are reading this, I am engaging in nuptial activities. Hooray! Today I leave you with Rachel, who's going to tell us a little bit about a formative text that has inspired her work. Check out her bio at the end if you'd like to know more about her! For some time... Continue Reading →
Upcoming movies and some guest posts
We are so close to Wedding Day! And given that, my general ability to think thoughts is pretty depleted. Please instead enjoy this pulpy post. But first, some housekeeping for all you lovely readers. I'm featuring a few guest bloggers over the next few weeks while I'm away getting married and traveling and such. I'm... Continue Reading →
A few recent reads
I've been reading a lot lately, because I've been super stressed, which means that I read every spare minute. Don't ask me why this is. I can't tell you. You would think that, being stressed, I would engage directly with my stressors and then take my time to enjoy books, but not. I've just been... Continue Reading →
Saiunkoku Monogatari: a review
So I watch a lot of anime, I've mentioned, though not as much as some people. I found this anime, which originally aired through 2006 to 2008, while looking for something that would feed my insatiable hunger for more Akatsuki no Yona (which is still up there on my top three along with Ouran High School... Continue Reading →
Howl’s Moving Castle: Reimaginings in anime
I read the novel Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynn Jones recently, and it sparked in me some thoughts about adaptations and reimaginings in anime. We've had a lot of controversy about some of those recently. Take Ghost in the Shell, for example, one of the most widely adapted of the anime franchises. I am sure everyone... Continue Reading →
“Dark Warm Heart”: my grief over womanhood
This is not a light-hearted meditation. This is about a lot of things, congealing as they sometimes do for me, because of story. This is not the first time such things have solidified in this way, just the most recent. This is about my grief. It is an old grief. It comes from the child who... Continue Reading →
Roanoke Author Invasion 2017
What a weekend. So I want to start off with some background, here, before I talk about selling books and such. I came into this weekend a bit like a jetplane making an emergency aquatic landing. That is to say, I belly-flopped right into RAI because I was straight up out of fuel and had... Continue Reading →
Depictions of AI
Hey, friends. This weekend is Roanoke Author Invasion! I'm bringing a bunch of books and oddments, so I hope to see you there! I promise to take more pictures this time and post them for you next week, but until then please enjoy this discussion of robots and artificial intelligence. A few weeks ago I... Continue Reading →
Amanda J. McGee, Author 
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