Çaturday with Charlie
A couple of weeks late for his second birthday, here’s a sketch I made of Charlie.
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Happy 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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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.
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