Hild’s eye salve kills MRSA
Anglo-saxon remedy kills MRSA. Breguswith knew a thing to two…
Read moreMonth: March 2015
Leigh Brackett’s The Long Tomorrow
I read Brackett’s The Long Tomorrow for the first time in 2005. Five pages in, I wondered why I’d never heard of this novel. Twenty pages later, I was wondering why it wasn’t universally acknowledged as the first Great American SF Novel.
Read moreTwo blog posts on Gemæcce
Two posts on Gemæcce, my research blog. The first is about the battle of Hatfield Chase. The second on the recent Nature piece in the genetic structure of the population of Britain.
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Protagonists who look like their authors
I’ve lost count of the number of readers who have suggested I look like one of the protagonists of my books, as illustrated on their covers. The first time it happened was with Slow River. I was surprised, but then came The Blue Place*, and Stay, and I became progressively less surprised. With Hild I expected it.
Read moreDoing the Work
Aud is my commitment to excellence made flesh/word and walking around; she uses whatever it takes to get the job done. She is the tension between the joy and discipline that is my art (or craft or life or bane, depending) filed to a point and stabbed into the tabletop.
Read moreGirls of lost subcultures
I’m apparently one of the “girls from lost subcultures” in Visible Girls, an exhibit by photographer Anita Corbin. Shot in 1981 (!) and now on exhibit in London.
Read moreInternational Women’s Day
Essay section of the site
A rotating list of carefully curated pieces? An encyclopaedic list? Most-popular old posts as essays (things like Who Owns SF? and Lame is So Gay and my Writer’s Manifesto)? Or some option I haven’t thought of? Tell me what you think.
Read moreA reminder: no blurbs or signal boosts for a while
A reminder: I’m not reading other people’s work right now for blurbs; I’m not signal boosting; I’m not coming to your library/school/bookclub/radio show to chat. Sorry.
Read moreNew, shiny website and blog
With any luck, this will be the first new post of my brand new site. Time and past time, I know. The…
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