This year’s Balticon will nothing if not exciting. I’m scheduled for fifteen (fifteen!) panels. Gulp. Friday 4:00 pm (Salon B) Symbology of Animals in Folk and Fairy Tales (Readers Track) Are certain animals used to …
Neil Gaiman Interview
If you ever needed proof that I’m a total fan girl, here it is: my Nebula Awards Banquet interview with Neil Gaiman. Enjoy!
To quote Mark Twain
“Wagner’s music isn’t as bad as it sounds.” 😀 Just got home from the Metropolitan Opera Live in HD production of Siegfried. Greg is the Wagner fan. I confess, I’m meh on opera, but from …
“Burning Down the House” for Fun and Promo
I missed the posting deadline for Six Sentence Sunday for the second week in a row. Bad blogger, that’s me. By way of apology, I thought I’d offer a slightly longer excerpt from “Burning Down …
We’ve got reviews! And award nods!
While I’ve been groveling–er, adjusting to The New Management, things have been popping on the news front. Hellebore and Rue has been named as a Goldie Award Finalist in Speculative Fiction, along with a collaboration …
Six Sentence Sunday: “Burning Down the House”
Balticon is less than four weeks away, and I’ll be participating in two (count ’em, two!) launch parties for two amazing anthologies, The Modern Fae’s Guide to Surviving Humanity and Hellfire Lounge 3: Jinn Rummy. …
Under New Management
Squirrel Terrace has been acquired by Basement Cat–or Ninja Cat, as he prefers to be called. Later on, he may add Pirate Cat to his list of titles. His collar boasts tiny skulls and crossbones, …
RavenCon Schedule
RavenCon is this weekend! I can’t wait, and when you see the schedule they’ve given me, you’ll know why. And this is only the tip of their programming iceberg. Glen Cook and Matthew Stewart are …
Duzell, we hardly knew ye
The iconic Duzell, born we don’t know, entered our lives in September 2006 and left as considerately as he did everything sometime around eleven this morning. He got me through some of the worst times …
Six Sentence Sunday: “Stealth Guest, or How to Succeed at Cons with a Cunning Plan”
Our beloved Feline Overlord is ailing, and last weekend was devoted to him. But I’m back this week, with a little nonfiction in honor of RavenCon, where I’ll be next weekend–the story of my first …