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Resurrection Code, by Lyda Morehouse

I’m so excited about this book! Is it March 15 yet? Lyda’s also posting vignettes to her livejournal. The first one opens: You know how everyone asks “do you remember where you were when the Aswan dams broke?” I remember very well, indeed....

Yes, I’ve been AWOL.

I work too much. I need to cut that out. Anyway, I’m back from Dragoncon and have a possible short story idea or two, which is good because I’ve sold almost all of my short stories and only have two in circulation! I also attended a steampunk panel, which...

Want to be part of an experiment?

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...

You know you want it!

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...

Cherie Priest’s Dreadful Skin

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...

Lyda Morehouse’s AngeLINK series

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...

Four and Twenty Blackbirds, by Cherie Priest

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...

I raked it in!

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....

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