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  • Pernicious Childhood Influences

    I’m well aware by this point (due to the invaluable efforts of my critique group and first readers) that I have a tendency to put my British phrasing in the mouths of my American characters without realizing it. I got roundly smacked for having Andrew say that “some breakfast wouldn’t go amiss”. My mother was…

  • Dream Logic

    I had a writing anxiety dream last night–I’ve said it before on this blog, my unconscious is subtle like a brick to the head, so you’ll laugh at how blatant it was–but some of the internal logic of it interested me more than the central narrative. In the dream, I had a different publisher, and…

  • True Family

    So, if I’d ever doubted it, I got a hilarious reminder this Thanksgiving of where I got my genetics from. So on a previous visit to my maternal grandparents’ house, I noticed a brick with an interesting maker’s mark. I asked my coworker to show me where to look it up, and discovered it was…

  • Metaphor for Spoons

    It’s time, boys and girls, for another edition of Unnecessary Metaphors! For the newcomers among us, this is a game where I court inexplicable search engine hits by creating metaphors for things that don’t need them, and in fact probably shouldn’t have them. Something like nine months after my last edition, hits from “metaphor for…

  • WFC Schedule

    It’s that time again. Halloween is coming up, and World Fantasy is upon us! I’ll be out in Toronto next weekend, if anyone wants to stop by, I have a panel! Friday 1:00 p.m. GOTHIC FANTASY NOIR In the Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997) Mike Ashley writes: “The cityscape has replaced the old castle, and Urban…

  • Birthday Art

    It’s a little past my birthday, but I wanted to show off some lovely art my friend made for me! She also has lots of other cool stuff at her website.

  • Lighting

    Me: Your bathroom lightbulbs are set to “undead” Dad: What? Me: They make you look all pale and slightly blue. Unless I’m actually slightly pale and blue. Dad: You kind of are. Me: What? No, it’s the fluorescent bulbs! They mess with skin tones! Dad: Those are some of the only incandescents we have left…

  • Rocks

    Ladies and gentlemen, I give you… The saddest rock in the world. Clearly, it needs to make friends with the toast rock: (New readers: the toast rock lives in the lab cabinets at work)

  • Overlarge Vocabularies of Writers

    Worldcon Dinner Conversation Me: I wonder if they’ll think I’m a pleb if I ask for ketchup with this. Tablemate: I think if you can use the word pleb, you’re not a pleb.

  • The Next Big Thing Week 10

    I’ve been tagged by Esther and Frog Jones in a fun little game going around at the moment: The Next Big Thing. The Next Big Thing is a weekly blog post where tagged authors talk about one of their works in progress. What is the working title of your book? Cubs. It’s book 3 in…

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