Friday Chatter: Emergence
“The whole being greater than the sum of its parts” is an idea I talk to my students about every year (no joke; it’s called “emergence”; it’s relevant to the...
Autistic Book Party, Episode 75: Geometries of Belonging
Today’s book review is of RB Lemberg’s new Birdverse-themed short story collection, GEOMETRIES OF BELONGING. (A different entity from the short story of that...
Autistic Book Party, Episode 75: Geometries of Belonging
Today’s book review is of RB Lemberg’s new Birdverse-themed short story collection, GEOMETRIES OF BELONGING. (A different entity from the short story of that...
Friday Chatter: Inspiration
In this week’s post we talked about the process of inspiration - both artistic and scientific. What’s a book or film that you feel does portray this process...
Friday Chatter: Inspiration
In this week’s post we talked about the process of inspiration - both artistic and scientific. What’s a book or film that you feel does portray this process...
Bolts of Inspiration
A small aside in "Such Stuff as Dreams" made me think of one little thing that always annoys me in spec fic. It's when an author wants their protagonist to...
Bolts of Inspiration
A small aside in "Such Stuff as Dreams" made me think of one little thing that always annoys me in spec fic. It's when an author wants their protagonist to...
Friday Chatter: Chaining
Not to be all “can you think of an example from your own life” (except, well, I am teaching on campus again this month and I am *very* “can you think of an...
Friday Chatter: Chaining
Not to be all “can you think of an example from your own life” (except, well, I am teaching on campus again this month and I am *very* “can you think of an...
Forward and Backward Chaining
I've been reading Such Stuff as Dreams: The Psychology of Fiction by Keith Oatley, which is a bit dense but absolutely relevant to my interests and to the...
Forward and Backward Chaining
I've been reading Such Stuff as Dreams: The Psychology of Fiction by Keith Oatley, which is a bit dense but absolutely relevant to my interests and to the...
Friday Chatter: Pacing
Yesterday’s panel at the Argo Bookshop was a great event, and it got me thinking (again) about neurodivergent writing styles and pacing. Might be a post...
Friday Chatter: Pacing
Yesterday’s panel at the Argo Bookshop was a great event, and it got me thinking (again) about neurodivergent writing styles and pacing. Might be a post...
Autistic Book Party, Episode 74: The Luminous Dead
Today’s review is quick but glowing (no pun intended) - Caitlin Starling’s sci-fi caving horror “The Luminous Dead.” Find out why it earned a Recommended-2...
Autistic Book Party, Episode 74: The Luminous Dead
Today’s review is quick but glowing (no pun intended) - Caitlin Starling’s sci-fi caving horror “The Luminous Dead.” Find out why it earned a Recommended-2...
Autistic Book Stats
A mutual on Twitter recently shared an experience they’d had in real life: in a discussion of neurodiversity in SFF, when asked to think of autistic...
Autistic Book Stats
A mutual on Twitter recently shared an experience they’d had in real life: in a discussion of neurodiversity in SFF, when asked to think of autistic...
THE OUTSIDE's query letter
Since I’ve handed in the copy edits to THE INFINITE - and since there’s been talk about the querying process going around on Twitter - I thought I’d share...
THE OUTSIDE's query letter
Since I’ve handed in the copy edits to THE INFINITE - and since there’s been talk about the querying process going around on Twitter - I thought I’d share...
Friday Chatter: Connections
In this week’s post we talked about how to tell the difference between a person or group that fulfils you and one where you’re just putting the time in...
