The difference between oregano and marjoram
The kerbs keeps growing. The oregano and marjoram have tangled up with each other and…fused. And, honestly, I just can’t tell the…
Read moreMonth: January 2011
Beautiful sentences
Included in this week’s links for writers post over at Sterling Editing, is an article by Adam Haslett about beautiful sentences. Sentences…
Read moreMethod writing and Hild tidbits
I spent yesterday afternoon in the seventh century with a teenaged Hild who has just been spurned by her first love, who…
Read moreAud #4?
I got this (and several others like it) last week: hi my name is Lindsay and love love your books and i…
Read moreReaders are customers, not the enemy
From Pat Holt, on Holt Uncensored, comes a blog post which begins with the tale of a rather boorish couple who act…
Read moreSingle malt whiskey chocolates–in honour of Robert Burns
Today is the 252nd anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns. People all over the world will be reciting his poetry, eating…
Read moreAnonymous was a woman
Fred Shapiro, editor of the Yale Book of Quotations, explains why Virginia Woolf is right: I would venture to guess that Anon,who…
Read moreKerbian explosion
The kerbs have been feeding us for three weeks now. As you can see, harvesting them just encourages their insane growth. The…
Read moreMy ‘risk intelligence’ is high, baby. How about yours?
Via Cassandra, I learnt about the Point Project. According to their website, the Point Project: is a project to gather information about…
Read moreDon’t interrupt when I’m reading a book
Today is for linkage: Malinda Lo and Cindy Pon have had a fabulous idea: Diversity in YA, or DIYA, a website and…
Read moreUpdating science fiction for republication
I read something over at Dear Author that got me thinking: I was reading the Jennifer Greene books which are being re-released…
Read moreThe malevolence of inanimate objects
It’s been an odd few days at the Eskridge-Griffith household. It began with Kelley getting kicked in the head at her gym….
Read moreI lied! Look at this…
http://www.hbo.com/bin/hboPlayerV2u.swf?vid=1154893 I think I might have to pony up for HBO after all. Gaaargh!!
Read moreChewed on by monsters
Interesting new movie trailer: Love
http://media2.firstshowing.net/firstshowing/flv-embed/flvplayer.swf (thanks, Dianne) From FirstShowing.net: After losing contact with Earth, astronaut Lee Miller (Gunner Wright) becomes stranded in orbit aboard the Space…
Read moreThe cat who yelled, again
Chow Mane is back. She’s learnt to show up at lunchtime, rain or shine, and yell. I can hear her through the…
Read moreMy life as the tagline to a torrid potboiler
I got a commercial email the other day advertising some epical weretiger (I think) romance novel called The Tiger’s Curse. The tagline…
Read moreBreakage
Yesterday was a day of breakage. We woke up to snow, and a ravaged curly willow. The tree had survived the Great…
Read moreSF/F Translation Award draw — great prizes
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Translation Awards are for works of speculative fiction translated into English from other languages. It’s a small…
Read moreKelley’s beautiful novel, Solitaire, available now
Kelley’s novel, Solitaire, has just been reissued by Small Beer Press. The cover is gorgeous. In fact, the whole package is supremely…
Read morePW: ‘lame’ shouldn’t be an insult
This headline from Publishers Weekly is not acceptable: Using ‘lame’ as a derogatory term is, to me, as insulting as saying it’s…
Read moreDolphins and snow in Puget Sound
NASA image via Wikipedia I woke up this morning to snow. Just a pretty dusting but, still: snow. Yet last week the…
Read moreKerb explosion
It was just five weeks ago that we started our kitchen bio experiment of growing herbs hydroponically: the kitchen herbs a/k/a the…
Read moreHow ammonites changed the world
Interesting paper in Science: The Role of Ammonites in the Mesozoic Marine Food Web Revealed by Jaw Preservation, subtitled: “How they revolutionized…
Read moreSolitaire, Sterling, and YA/MG Hugo?
Three snippets of linkage for you today. A lovely review by John Mesjack up at My 3 Books of Kelley’s Solitaire. “I…
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