The 2012 VIDA count has been out for more than a month now, and now Strange Horizons has released their 2012 count for science fiction and fantasy. The numbers do not look good, kids. More here. I’ll be helping with CWILA’s 2012 count this year. I’ve just received my instructions. I’ll keep you posted as to when […]
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Google Reader is disappearing as of July 1st, 2013. Which marks the death of one of the very few Google products I use these days. Slate.com has created a graveyard of dead Google products. I’d long since forgotten about most of these, and there were more than a few I hadn’t heard of. But the Reader? That
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I’m trying to put together my first poetry collection, which is turning out to be way more complicated than I thought. I have all these poems, some of which have been published, but trying to gather them into something resembling a reasonably coherent book is challenging. I’ve never done this before, and I have no idea, really,
Organized books, superheroines, toys and badass mice Read more »
Though it can seem like it sometimes, the world’s not all bad. Apparently whales are learning to speak human, or at least trying, and that’s pretty awesome. Maybe once they get the hang of it they can advise us how to live better. Canadian publishing is about to get smaller with Douglas & McIntyre filing for bankruptcy
The death of literature (yes, again…), poetic dendrophiliacs, and other bookish stuff Read more »
After going to St Jacob’s Market last Thursday, I spent the next few days canning up a storm. I made several dozen jars of spicy dill spears, bread and butter pickles, pickled jalapeños, blueberry jam, strawberry vanilla jam, plain strawberry jam, peach plum ginger jam, brandied peaches, and on Wednesday I had another, more successful, go at
Writing advice, reviewing advice, and a new pic of Emily Dickinson Read more »
