Spear updates
SPEAR won’t be out for another nine months but I have updates on images, page length, and audiobook
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Things disabled people do
For Disability Pride Month a post about what disabled do—or, rather, about one crip’s fabulous life. Flaunt it, baby!
Read moreÇaturday with Charlie and George
In which I experiment with Procreate brushes—with limited success—to make portraits of Charlie and George
Read moreHistoric, dangerous, prolonged, and unprecedented
Historic, dangerous, prolonged, and unprecedented: so statistically rare it’s expected ‘once every several thousand years.’ Yeah, no. This is a warning shot across our bows.
Read moreIndivisible—except by 3 and 11
Indivisible—except by 3 and 11. Thirty-three years ago today I met Kelley. It was a scorching hot today—just like today…
Read moreKitten Report #18: Two-and-a-bit years old
Charlie and George are two years old—no longer kittens but full-grown cats. Maybe. Their personalities have grown more distinct.
Read moreMe and Laurie Frankel in conversation: Friday 11th June, 4pm Pacific, on Zoom
On Friday 11th at 4pm Pacific, on Zoom: me and Laurie Frankel in conversation about her latest novel, which does something amazing and unusual. Free. ASL interpreted.
Read moreHild’s bynames #3: Little Prickle
Little Prickle, referring to the hedgehog, is as much a pet name for Hild as a byname.
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Hild’s bynames: Butcherbird
Over on Gemæcce, another in my occasional series of posts about the bynames Hild acquires in both Hild and Menewood. Plus a picture of one of the stabby birds I’ve ben working on, a shrike.
Read moreÇaturday with Charlie
A couple of weeks late for his second birthday, here’s a sketch I made of Charlie.
Read moreHappy Çaturday!
Here, on the occasion of his second birthday, is a drawing I made of George
Read moreMore on the Spear cover
Spear (out April 19, 2022) has a lovely cover. But like all covers it took some time to come together.
Read moreSpear cover reveal!
pear has a cover! It’s luscious, exactly what I wanted, and perfect for the book. The illustration is by Rovina Cai and the design by Christine Foltzer.
Read moreBeer yesterday, Spear cover reveal tomorrow!
Yesterday Kelley and I went out for a beer and talked to other human beings! My first pint of Guinness for 16…
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Pfizer vaccines well over 90% effective against variants
From the New England Journal of Medicine, a very encouraging analysis of the real-world effectiveness of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against variants of concern.
Read moreHild’s bynames: an occasional series
Over on Gemæcce, my research blog, I’m starting an occasional series of posts about Hild’s bynames—the additional names she is known by…
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New Books to Look For
Here are 4 books to look for: three coming out very soon (next week! next month!) and one that was published late last year just as Covid was surging and election-related horrors were gearing up…
Read moreHappy Lesbian Visibility Day!
Lesbian Visibility Day began in the UK. This photo of me and Carol was taken at the first UK Lesbian Conference, April 1981, almost exactly 40 years ago.
Read moreHild art
I’m experimenting with making my own Hild-related art. So far it’s mainly animals…
https://gemaecce.com/2021/04/20/making-my-own-hild-art/
Read moreVaccinated: Now What?
Team Vaccine has Team Virus—even with its superstar variants waiting on the bench—comprehensively beaten
Read moreFuck 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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