by Katherine Villyard | Feb 22, 2008 | geekiness, reading
Question: Do free ebooks help or hurt paper book sales? Tor is offering free ebooks if you sign up with their newsletter here. They offer a different one each week–this week is Scalzi’s Old Man’s War. (If you want it and missed it, ask a...
by Katherine Villyard | Dec 6, 2007 | reading
The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel is coming soon. I haven’t seen it yet, but it has poetry by my friend Peg Duthie in it, and she is made of awesome. Therefore, you clearly want this book. You want it, you crave it, you must have...
by Katherine Villyard | Nov 9, 2007 | novels, reading, writing mysticism
My outline for the novel codenamed Lizardfic is currently 5008 words. That’s longer than most of my short stories. This is more outlining than I’ve ever done for any project, ever. On the other hand, stalled novel, yo. Horrible feeling. Must unstall novel....
by Katherine Villyard | Aug 19, 2007 | reading
I read this ages ago, but haven’t written about it here. Well, work is keeping me crazy, and my short fiction turnarounds are insane, so… This was a very enjoyable read. I liked part one, “The Wreck of the Mary Byrd,” the best. It just appealed...
by Katherine Villyard | Aug 10, 2007 | reading
I think most of the people who regularly read this blog have already read this series, but for those of you who haven’t… I love these books to complete irrational distraction, and if you haven’t read them, you should! I should probably tell you to...
by Katherine Villyard | Sep 25, 2005 | reading
I’m not sure what led me to go to the Southern Gothic panel at Dragoncon. I suspect it was the panel description: What is it about the American South that haunts the literary psyche? Some of horror’s Southern voices will talk about what it is like to live...
by Katherine Villyard | Aug 29, 2005 | life, the universe, and everything, reading, short fiction
I made even more changes to the nightmare story, but no one’s seen them yet. The S.O. was working on his own novel, damn him! *shakes fist* That, and I’m a little too worried about Hurricane Katrina smacking New Orleans to worry about whether my changes to...
by Katherine Villyard | Dec 25, 2004 | reading
Apparently, my muttering and grumbling about the sacrilege that was Sci Fi’s Earthsea have paid off. Brian gave me Tehanu and The Other Wind for Christmas. Woohoo! And also The Lathe of Heaven. Yes, we’re having a very Ursula K. Le Guin Christmas here....
by Katherine Villyard | Dec 15, 2004 | reading
A Wizard of Earthsea was the first SF/F I ever read, and if I hadn’t enjoyed it I probably wouldn’t be here. I read and loved the entire trilogy, but was particularly fond of The Tombs of Atuan, which had a wonderfully creepy, anthropologically fascinating...
by Katherine Villyard | Apr 18, 2004 | reading, scripts, short fiction
I got several funny pages done on the movie script. Hooray! On the other hand, I read a bit of draft for the nightmare story I wrote last week, and it is the suck. Not first draft suck, either. Worse. Woe. Ah well, this is the whole reason to have multiple projects in...