2023: A Big Year
2023 is a year of Big Anniversaries—those ending in 0 or 5—marking significant life events for me and Kelley. Here are a round dozen of them.
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Self-portrait
A first-time self-portrait and some thoughts about the mysteries of Beginner’s Luck
Read moreSuzy McKee Charnas
Suzy McKee Charnas died yesterday. Go read one of her books.
Read moreSpear—Award Eligibility
If you want to nominate SPEAR for an award (thank you!), here’s what you need to know.
Read more2023!
2023 is off to a shining start with felines, fish, feathers, flying frozen treats and fine Fran’s chocolates.
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2022 Blog Stats
For the second year in a row the number of people visiting my blog increased—though not by much. Here are the Top 10 new posts and the Top 15 overall. Plus an explanation of why blogging beats newsletters.
Read moreHappy Hedgepig Disco Season to All!
Via Roisín Astell on Twitter (from Verdun bibliothèque municipale MS 107, f.8r)
Read moreSigned personalised books for the holidays—including my memoir!
I’m teaming up again with Phinney Books, on Greenwood Avenue, Seattle, to bring you signed, personalised books for the holidays.
And, this year only, you can BUY A COPY OF MY SIGNED, NUMBERED MEMOIR-IN-A-BOX.
I can’t wait for you to read it!
Read moreTreasure trove discovered: my memoir in a box!
Want to read my short autobiographical essays like “No-Pants Griffith,” “Whole Psychopath” and “Limb of Satan”? All true stories!
You’ll need a copy of AND NOW WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A PARTY: LINER NOTES TO A WRITER’S EARLY LIFE
Read moreGorgeous Kelley
A gorgeous new headshot of the gorgeous Kelley Eskridge
Read moreHild, Menewood, and Meanwood
MENEWOOD—out October 2023—is an epic tale of seventh-century Britain: war and devastation, victory and peace, love and loss, grief and change, power and responsibility and joy and lust and friendship and belonging and change. But above all, it’s about Hild in the wild places of the world, becoming herself.
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Holiday Bookfest—Live! In-person!—Saturday 19 November!
Live! In person! Saturday Nov 19th 2-4 pm at the Phinney Center. Come meet me and 27 other friendly local authors.
Read moreAestas horribilis
It’s been a very hard summer—though it hasn’t all been bad. Here’s my update and explanation.
Read moreThis year’s flowers
Every summer we plant a bunch of annuals alongside our surviving perennials in containers on our kitchen and back decks, where I…
Read moreMe at 62
It’s my birthday. I’m crap at selfies but here’s one of me looking a cross between bored and homicidal, plus a Zoom screencap taken this morning.
Read moreFacing the Butcherbird
Here’s how I imagine Hild looks in Butcherbird mode, along with the shield her men carry as a threat and a warning.
Read moreKelley on the planet
A very happy birthday to the queen of my world.
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Hægtes: one of Hild’s bynames
Over on my research blog, a long chewy post about how I researched one of Hild’s first bynames, hægtes. And then how…
Read moreZen and Thunderbirds
Change: are you camp Zen, Thunderbirds, or Sopranos?
Read moreSpear on sale: 50% off!
Spear is for sale at 50% off at both Barnes & Noble and Amazon.
Read moreIndivisible—except by 17
Thirty-four years ago today I met Kelley. So far they’ve been the best years of my life. My hope is that they…
Read moreR/evolution in disability lit is accelerating
There are now two serious prizes for disability literature, and the pace of change is accelerating.
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Two interviews and a review
Back from the Orcas Island LitFest to find two new podcast interviews and a wonderful long review, an examination of why SPEAR is an act of resistance, a “heady and healing draught.”
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Spear in New York Times and Beyond the Trope
Spear updates: NYTBR review, Beyond the Trope podcast, promises for the future…
Read moreHistory and historicity, historiography and legend
How can you make a realistic novel set in the past feel like magic—and a book stuffed with magic and myth feel realistic? And why can that be a problem for historical fiction writers?
Funny you should ask: I just wrote a whole essay about that for Historia Magazine. Go take a look. Oh, and there’s a clue in the image description…
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