GOOOOAAL!! Team Vaccine wins the Covid Cup
Team Vaccine has Team Virus—even with its superstar variants waiting on the bench—comprehensively beaten
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Fuck off into the sun: I’m done with being excluded
Disabled people are the demographic most abused at home; the most murdered by caregivers; the most badly paid; the most discriminated against by employers; the most laughed at in public; the poorest; the most refused transport on buses, trains, and planes; and the most killed by law enforcement. We are 25% of the fucking population and I am DONE with being excluded from the DEI conversation.
Read moreHelena + Nicola = A Whole Psychopath
My little sister Helena would have been 57 today; we were tight; between us we made a whole psychopath
Read moreHild through others’ eyes
Here’s the latest in a line of Hild-related art created by readers—only this time its based not on the novel itself but on my blog posts about the novel
Read moreCatching up
What have I been up to in the last month? Many things! And not much.
Read moreA 3-minute video reading from Spear
In which I read the first 3 minutes of Spear, my forthcoming Arthurian fantasy
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Workshop: Character through setting, Monday March 15
I’m teaching a 2-hr Zoom workshop for Clarion West, Monday, 15 March, on using setting to explore character—and character to explore setting. Sign up now.
Read moreMenewood progress
When is Menewood coming out? I discuss timing and talk about a juicy post going up on Gemæcce
Read moreQueer Early Medieval: LGBTQ+ History Month
To celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month I’ll be talking to Cheryl Morgan about gender and sexuality in 7th-C Britain, and why I chose to write Hild as bisexual.
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A Good Feeling
It’s a good feeling to be able to follow @POTUS again on Twitter and know sudden, shocking blood pressure spikes will not…
Read moreKitten Report #17: Songbird Fever
In which George spends a couple of days in kitty hospital on IV antibiotics and resolves never to eat a bird again.
Read moreA is for Abattoir: Five words for 2021 so far
For me and Kelley the first half of January has been a rollercoaster of events clustered around five different words.
Read more2020 Adieu
Charlie and George bid farewell to 2020. The photo is from last year because the beasties are too busy murdering small things…
Read more2021: A Look Ahead
I’m wary of making predictions but here are my two sincere hopes for us all in 2021
Read more2020: An unusual year
I considered titling this post 2020: The Fuckening. A lot sucked—but it was also a profoundly liberating year for my work.
Read moreHoliday Greetings From Various Beasties
Holiday greetings from Charlie and George, plus some reindeer
Read moreChristmas Eve and flowers are still flowering
Here in Seattle we’ve had sleet and snow and frost and rain—so much rain. But astonishingly the flowers in pots on our decks are still valiantly flowering. An omen for 2021?
Read moreNew interview just up
A new interview just went up on The Fantasy Hive, in which I talk like a machine gun to Jonathan Thornton about my entire fiction career.
Read moreSolstice story
In honour of the Solstice I’ve created an illustrated PDF of a short story. A woman walks into a Seattle bar during a snowstorm and finds just what she’s looking for—or does she? Read by the fire with a glass of Armagnac, and dream of snow…
Read moreSpear—my short fantasy novel
I’ve written a new book: a short fantasy novel (my first!): Spear. It’s like Hild but with magic—the wild magic of the landscape, yes, the magic of love and the human heart, absolutely, but also the sword-swinging, monster-killing magic of myth and demigods…
Read moreLove and isolation: 31 years ago
I moved to the US to be with Kelley exactly 31 years ago. Life then felt weirdly similar to pandemic life today.
Read moreSigned personalised books for the holidays
I’m teaming up again with Phinney Books, on Greenwood Avenue, Seattle, to bring you signed, personalised books for the holidays.
Read moreManatee mind
Pain meds turn my mind grey and floaty, like a manatee. No wonder manatees are not renowned for their writing.
Read moreMENEWOOD!!
I have finished the first draft of MENEWOOD and it is huge! Huge and awesome! Awesome and exciting!
Read moreKitten report #16: 18 months old
Charlie and George are 18 months old They’re still escaping, still growing, still killing things, but now also getting wounded, and beaming love and comfort into the world
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