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.
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Walking away from it all, redux
From: Gregory You once wrote “I constantly try to live up to my ideal of myself as a person and a writer (if…
Read moreI am not on the cover of my novel
From: Ed HallDamn. Is it my imagination, or have you wound up on the cover of another of your books? Detail from…
Read moreDirty Old Town
This is “Dirty Old Town,” by Ewan MacColl. As Prospero, the Economist art blog, points out: “Although about Salford, it could be…
Read moreAvailable for rent: the Acropolis
Parthenon (Cornell) Parthenon (Brooklyn Museum) These two photos were taken a long time ago. But this is how the Acropolis looked when…
Read more29 years ago today: me on video
Dead Kennedys, The Damned, The Undertones, Cocteau Twins, Killing Joke, Stiff Little Fingers, and my band, Janes Plane. What do we all…
Read moreClarion romance, 23 years on
Kelley and me, 1989 Today is the 23rd anniversary of the day I met Kelley. I told the story in my multi-media…
Read moreAmmonite and Janes Plane
Yesterday was International Women’s Day. Which also happens to be the anniversary of the very first performance of my long-ago band, Janes…
Read moreSF/F Translation Award draw — great prizes
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Translation Awards are for works of speculative fiction translated into English from other languages. It’s a small…
Read moreMy coming out story
Today is Coming Out day (in the US, tomorrow in the UK). I’ve been out, very out, since I was sixteen. I…
Read moreGrief and its anniversaries
Just over a week ago it was the 22nd anniversary of my little sister Helena’s death. I forgot. I have mixed feelings…
Read moreWow: The Elements–what an iPad textbook can look like
(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 morewanting to go after my subconscious with a knife
From: Barbara (in a comment to this post) So where did Julia’s name come from? She’s hardly a secondary character. And Victoria…
Read morego spend yourself blind!
“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 morepronouns and reader engagement
A report in Science Daily about pronouns in fiction and how readers imagine character: ScienceDaily (Feb. 19, 2009) — While reading a…
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Exercise kills cravings. Another duh: ScienceDaily (Feb. 16, 2009) — Research from the University of Exeter reveals for the first time, that…
Read moreTetris + Ecstasy = no PTSD
illustration: The Economist In Medical News Today, I read an article that triggered a lot of thinking. It’s about how playing Tetris…
Read moreFriday audio: Corner for You
Yesterday was the nineteenth anniversary of me coming to live with Kelley in this country. You’ve already heard the sappy song I…
Read moreFriday audio: You Lied
Okay, after a day of rest and turkey I got all contemplative, so this is going to be a long one. Today’s…
Read moreare Mary Sue characters inevitable?
I came across this review the other day by the woman (could be a man, I suppose, but I don’t think so)…
Read moreParty for sale!
This just in from Payseur and Schmidt: Payseur & Schmidt Mailing List Sale! Because we appreciate all of our fans out there,…
Read morequeer because of demonic possession
I thought this was a joke at first but apparently not: WESTMINSTER, UK, August 15, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A priest of Westminster,…
Read moreorigins and insults
From: Sly An excerpt (from And Now We Are Going to Have a Party): “I imagined the officer nodding self-importantly and reporting…
Read moreFriday audio: Draw Me Down
My audio for this week is a song, “Draw Me Down,” that I made up one day in England while doing the…
Read moreI just realised something…
I 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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