Monthly Archives: March 2021
Two Tweet Threads About Copyright
Posted on March 7, 2021 132 Comments
Presented here for archival purposes, and also because I know not all of you go to the Twitters. Background: Writer Matthew Yglesias, who should have known better but I guess needed the clicks, offered up the opinion that the term of copyright should be shortened to 30 years (currently in the US it’s Life+70 years). […]
An Early March 2021 Status Check on Scalzi
Posted on March 5, 2021 38 Comments
As I’m deep in the throes of novel writing at the moment, I’ve been pretty scarce here and on other social media, so I thought I’d give you a quick update on me, you know, just in case you were worried or anything. So: I’m fine! After a long long period in which novel writing […]
I Was Going To Title This “Mlem Monday” But Then I Remembered It’s Friday
Posted on March 5, 2021 13 Comments
Sugar wants you to know she is offering up the highest quality of mlem’s, just for you! So you should feel special. And give her catnip. In other non-mlem related news, I was going to write about Fruits Basket today and talk about how incredible and amazing it is, but then it pissed me off right […]
Jane Yolen on 400 Books
Posted on March 5, 2021 8 Comments
In my professional writing career, I’ve had over 30 books published. That seems a reasonably impressive number — until you compare it to Jane Yolen’s output. In a decades-long publishing career, Yolen has written literally hundreds of books, with her 400th — !!!! — arriving this very week: Bear Outside, written by her and illustrated […]
A Short Wolf For Your Delight
Posted on March 5, 2021 11 Comments
My mother-in-law’s pups come over to the house on a regular basis to run around in our yard, and to poop on it, hopefully not exactly at the same time. Here, Roxy is running only. Just thought you might enjoy a pup-filled moment before going on with the rest of your day. — JS
The Big Idea: Jillian Boehme
Posted on March 4, 2021 1 Comment
First drafts are made to be edited. Author Jillian Boehme talks about the process of rewriting in her Big Idea for The Stolen Kingdom. Read on to see how a fresh take on an old work could end up being your next big thing. JILLIAN BOEHME: The first thing that needs to be perfectly clear is that […]
The Big Idea: Kali Wallace
Posted on March 3, 2021 3 Comments
Science fiction often holds up a mirror to the present day when it imagines what happens in the future. For Deep Space, author Kali Wallace has imagined a scenario that, while specifically impossible in the here in now, involves personal and social dynamics which might feel very familiar to us anyway. KALI WALLACE: This book […]
Making It Up As I Go Along
Posted on March 2, 2021 108 Comments
Like most twenty-somethings (if not all), I’m trying to figure out what to do with my life. And it’s hard as shit. I was supposed to do this when I was eighteen, but I’m a bit of a procrastinator, so I’m still trying to decide what it is that I want to spend my one and […]
The Big Idea: E. J. Beaton
Posted on March 2, 2021 3 Comments
The pen is mightier than the sword. At least it is in E. J. Beaton’s newest fantasy novel, The Councillor, where one clever girl is capable of changing society entirely. That is, if she even wants to change it. E. J. BEATON: When you hear the term “Machiavellian fantasy”, perhaps you think of a courtier […]
Krissy and Smudge Have a Moment
Posted on March 2, 2021 7 Comments
Sometimes you boop the cat’s nose, sometimes the cat boops your nose. That’s it, that’s the post. Enjoy the boopage. — JS
The Big Idea: Emily R. King
Posted on March 1, 2021 2 Comments
Many of us grew up with the stories and myths of ancient Greece, but as Emily R. King muses in this Big Idea, there are the stories and myths we’ve been told… and the ones that have been left untold. Her new novel Wings of Fury considers the latter. EMILY R. KING: “In the Golden […]
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