Queer 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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Trans in the military
Today President Donald Trump announced on Twitter that he is banning trans people from serving in the US military: I have no…
Read moreScience fiction awards database
Oooh, look at this: the Science Fiction Awards Database, put together by Mark Kelly for the Locus Foundation. (Thanks to Cheryl Morgan…
Read moreGalactic Suburbia Award
This morning I woke up to a lovely surprise: I’ve been awarded the first Galactic Suburbia Award for activism and/or communication that…
Read moreHappy Birthday to us!
Hild is eating my life. (And I’m okay with that. Writers like to write.) But it means I have no brain to…
Read moreHey, at least I’m "sharp-eyed"
The Guardian books podcast is up (many thanks to Cheryl for pointing it out). They include mention of the recent fuss over…
Read moreTaking the Russ pledge
The fabulous Cheryl Morgan has written a blog post, Female Invisibility Bingo, about the post I did at the weekend about how…
Read moreSolitaire, Sterling, and YA/MG Hugo?
Three snippets of linkage for you today. A lovely review by John Mesjack up at My 3 Books of Kelley’s Solitaire. “I…
Read morePodcast interview: LGBT characters in f/sf
Up on Salon Futura #2 I’m interviewed, along with Hal Duncan and Cat Valente, by Cheryl Morgan, for a podcast about the…
Read moreSalon Futura: a new mag in town
Cover illustration: “R’lyeh” by John Coulthart Friend of AN, Cheryl Morgan, has launched Salon Futura, “a new and hopefully somewhat different magazine…
Read moreTired but happy
I got back from Los Angeles on Sunday. It went well. Very well. I miss everyone already, all those brilliant, beautiful new…
Read moreWhile I was gone…
After a lovely 3-week break full of unplugged goodness, I’m back. It was delicious. I went out for lunches and dinners and…
Read moreA Story for Haiti, and other linkage
The good folks at Crossed Genres have come up with a great way to help the people of Haiti. “We wanted to…
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