"Cheesewire bikini exposed"
“Cheesewire bikini exposed.” Nope, I don’t know what that means, either, but it’s one of the search terms people used this month…
Read moreMonth: October 2010
Gorgeous autumn–colours colour colours!
Wednesday and Friday were eye-poppingly vibrant days here in Seattle. My friend, professional photographer Jennifer Durham, took some pictures of Green Lake…
Read moreMe with an updo, and it wasn’t even Halloween
I’ve been thinking about clothes lately, and was prompted the other day to search for a particular photograph. I found it, eventually…
Read moreGet yourself an education, for free
Wow, I’ve just read over on Lisa Gold‘s blog that the Paris Review has just made available 57 years-worth of author interviews….
Read moreIf plots had smartphones…
Yesterday, I was thinking about the Aud novels, about what it would take to republish them. (They’re all in print in some…
Read moreUpdate: Hild, health, happiness
I’m still very tired, but that’s about what I expected at this stage. The best thing I can report is that nothing…
Read moreWhat we talk about when we talk about books
Growing up, my family never talked about books. I’m guessing my first book discussions were with a librarian when I was eight…
Read moreDefining genres
@Literaticat has posted a list of genre definitions. Perhaps the most useful paragraph for beginners is this one (emphasis/shouting hers): PLEASE NOTE:…
Read moreA beautiful painting
Alisha Baker (we have four of her paintings) has just posted her latest work, a gorgeous moment-as-stained-glass-window painting that captures the glow…
Read moreThe niftiest font eva
I just made my own font, ngbyhand, the niftiest font eva: Only it doesn’t have much in the way of punctuation, just…
Read moreSex, again
In the Guardian, they’re talking about literary sex. Most of the writers in the article seem to agree with Martin Amis that:…
Read moreSmart people drink more
From Psychology Today, data to suggest that smart people drink more: The following graph shows the association between childhood intelligence (grouped into…
Read moreEditor, stat!
Editor, stat! (Definitely not stet.) Yesterday afternoon, too tired to do anything else, I dragged a pile of magazines over to the…
Read moreLow key ‘r’ us
The last couple of weeks have been…interesting. Good in many ways–the weather, the company, some publishing stuff I’ll talk about when I…
Read moreWinter is coming…
Morning, Friday 15th October. Hard blue sky, a nip in the air, sun on the top of the trees. A fine day…
Read moreDon’t mention the money
Babbage has an interesting post about the recent New York Tech Meetup and how it has its own “peculiar etiquette, which is…
Read moreThoughtful discussion of women and SF–add your voice
Over at Torque Control there’s a thoughtful post on gender and SF, including–yay!–A Plan. Go play, take part. Help stamp out Girl…
Read moreWriters: if you can’t give money, give a story
Yesterday, I talked about the challenge grant to the Lambda Literary Foundation by Emerging Voices fiction fellow Chuck Forester. If you have…
Read moreHelp save queer lives. Give, and it will be doubled.
If you give $25 or more to the Lambda Literary Foundation right now, your gift will be matched, dollar for dollar, by…
Read moreMy coming out story
Today is Coming Out day (in the US, tomorrow in the UK). I’ve been out, very out, since I was sixteen. I…
Read moreFarewell to the colours of summer
A melancholy, rainy day here in Seattle. But briefly this afternoon the clouds thinned to gauze and the garden blazed. I took…
Read moreWee pictures by…me
I was running a search for something on old Ask Nicola Q&As and came across this partial answer to something, including a…
Read moreBooks are journeys
I love books. I love my Kindle–I’ve read more novels per month in the last two years than I did before I…
Read moreLiving in a Fahrenheit 451 world
Pearls Before Swine is never dumb. And its brand of humour appeals to me. Cartman, Jayne, Rat: role models!
Read moreHammer House of Horror and…Jeanette Winterson!
Kelley just pointed this out to me. As she says, “Wow, this is all kinds of…well, you’ll see!” From Deadline Hollywood: The…
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