Birthday morning
Today is my birthday. Astonishingly, it’s sunny. Proof: Yep, we’ve rearranged the furniture–all the good things about moving with none of the…
Read moreMonth: September 2011
Fabulous LGBT books: the Green Carnation longlist
The Green Carnation Prize 2011 longlist has just been announced (hat tip to Cheryl Morgan). It’s a delicious-looking set of queer books:…
Read moreLuscious autumnal melancholy
So here’s a book I think would be lovely for autumn, The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation, ed. Greg Delanty and…
Read moreNew video interview with Ursula K. Le Guin
My friend Mark Tiedemann recently interviewed Ursula K. Le Guin for ReadMOre, Missouri’s annual statewide reading celebration. The technical quality isn’t brilliant…
Read moreApocalyptic money talk
It’s all over, apparently. At least according to independent trader Alessio Rastani: It was pretty astonishing to see a BBC presenter utterly…
Read moreAud’s woodworking
From: Jennifer Schwarz I just read Always, the first of your books that I have found. Thank you. I love your writing…
Read moreBlue Peter annual is no more
Peter Purves, Lesley Judd and John Noakes, 1977 The very first literary prize I ever won was in 1971. It was a…
Read moreMore Hild info
I told you it was epic. Totting up spellcheck results, it appears Light of the World has at least 188 named characters….
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These are the flowers that a neighbour brought round yesterday for Kelley’s birthday. Nothing to do with this post. I just thought…
Read moreHappy Birthday to The Most Fabulous Being on the Planet!
Today is Kelley’s birthday. Last year we did a marathon ten-day jubilee celebration. This year will be saner. Today there’s a movie,…
Read moreRIP DADT
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is dead. It is no more. It has ceased to be. It has passed on, expired, gone to…
Read moreI really am very, very close
I’m really very close to finishing this draft of Hild: 90% through. So I won’t be around much in the next day…
Read moreFull bore autumn today
yeah, crapcam again, sorry about that Raining, windy, leaves blowing. Neighbour cat huddling against the wall looking pathetic. (Yes, I’m talking about…
Read moreBrief note about comments
Okay, I’ve been remiss about combing my spam box. I just took a look and found half a dozen genuine comments from…
Read moreBritain After Rome
Thanks to a generous reader, I now have a copy of Robin Fleming’s Britain After Rome: The Fall and Rise, 400 to…
Read moreHow facts get distorted, but prejudice is still out there
A couple of days ago, I wrote here about a story in PW in which two children’s authors claimed their agent wouldn’t…
Read moreDon’t want my queer characters? I don’t want you!
Over at Publisher’s Weekly, Rose Fox has lent the soapbox to two YA authors who were “offered representation… on the condition that…
Read moreThe future of publishing: retail?
Today for your delectation and delight, here’s a selection of publishing news for you. According to Publishers Weekly, ebook sales in June…
Read moreHild update
I’m now just over halfway through the third draft of Hild. I’ve squeezed out a paragraph here, a sentence there–but then wrote…
Read moreCOBALT
Launching today: COBALT, a new quarterly literary magazine published online: Each issue will feature fiction, non-fiction and poetry of the highest caliber,…
Read moreHappy Birthday to us!
Hild is eating my life. (And I’m okay with that. Writers like to write.) But it means I have no brain to…
Read moreWood and stone
Via The Medieval Review (a listserv) I came across two books I want. The Landscape Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England, ed. Nicholas Higham…
Read moreWe’ve, ah, come a long way, baby
I’m sure many of you have by now read about the latest foolishness from an f/sf bigot who I won’t bother to…
Read moreEpisode 2 of Cat Women of the Moon
The second part of “Cat Women of the Moon,” the BBC Radio 4 documentary about sex, gender, and science fiction, is up…
Read moreFallen trees and setting sun
Yesterday was our wedding anniversary. Crapcam got a workout. First we were in the park. I spotted this fallen and naturally split…
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