My music in one easy-to-listen-to playlist
Here’s a playlist of the nine songs included in the CD inside And Now We Are Going to Have a Party.
Read moreHere’s a playlist of the nine songs included in the CD inside And Now We Are Going to Have a Party.
Read moreFrom: Gregory You once wrote “I constantly try to live up to my ideal of myself as a person and a writer (if…
Read moreFrom: Ed HallDamn. Is it my imagination, or have you wound up on the cover of another of your books? Detail from…
Read moreThis is “Dirty Old Town,” by Ewan MacColl. As Prospero, the Economist art blog, points out: “Although about Salford, it could be…
Read moreParthenon (Cornell) Parthenon (Brooklyn Museum) These two photos were taken a long time ago. But this is how the Acropolis looked when…
Read moreDead Kennedys, The Damned, The Undertones, Cocteau Twins, Killing Joke, Stiff Little Fingers, and my band, Janes Plane. What do we all…
Read moreKelley and me, 1989 Today is the 23rd anniversary of the day I met Kelley. I told the story in my multi-media…
Read moreYesterday was International Women’s Day. Which also happens to be the anniversary of the very first performance of my long-ago band, Janes…
Read moreThe Science Fiction and Fantasy Translation Awards are for works of speculative fiction translated into English from other languages. It’s a small…
Read moreToday is Coming Out day (in the US, tomorrow in the UK). I’ve been out, very out, since I was sixteen. I…
Read moreJust over a week ago it was the 22nd anniversary of my little sister Helena’s death. I forgot. I have mixed feelings…
Read more(via eBookNewser) The 3-D option is particularly nifty. I’m thinking what an amazing iPad version I could make of And Now We…
Read moreFrom: Barbara (in a comment to this post) So where did Julia’s name come from? She’s hardly a secondary character. And Victoria…
Read more“This ain’t your Mama’s memoir.”— Malinda Lo, AfterEllen.com “A reflection of the mental landscape of an extraordinary writer.”— Dorothy Allison “Brave, forthright,…
Read moreA report in Science Daily about pronouns in fiction and how readers imagine character: ScienceDaily (Feb. 19, 2009) — While reading a…
Read moreExercise kills cravings. Another duh: ScienceDaily (Feb. 16, 2009) — Research from the University of Exeter reveals for the first time, that…
Read moreillustration: The Economist In Medical News Today, I read an article that triggered a lot of thinking. It’s about how playing Tetris…
Read moreYesterday was the nineteenth anniversary of me coming to live with Kelley in this country. You’ve already heard the sappy song I…
Read moreOkay, after a day of rest and turkey I got all contemplative, so this is going to be a long one. Today’s…
Read moreI came across this review the other day by the woman (could be a man, I suppose, but I don’t think so)…
Read moreThis just in from Payseur and Schmidt: Payseur & Schmidt Mailing List Sale! Because we appreciate all of our fans out there,…
Read moreI thought this was a joke at first but apparently not: WESTMINSTER, UK, August 15, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A priest of Westminster,…
Read moreFrom: Sly An excerpt (from And Now We Are Going to Have a Party): “I imagined the officer nodding self-importantly and reporting…
Read moreMy audio for this week is a song, “Draw Me Down,” that I made up one day in England while doing the…
Read moreI was just rereading my essay, “Identity and SF: Story as Science and Fiction,” to make sure it hadn’t got scrambled in…
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