February 2022 Book Club
Hey folks, A day late, but not a dollar short, I hope. The world is a scary place right now, and I spent yesterday in post-cancer doctor appointments. All...
Cheap Ebooks!
Well, it’s not horse_ebooks, but they are on sale! For US readers, my award-winning first novel, Hammered, is on sale for $1.99 in ebook. For the UK readers,...
Quiet out there. Too quiet.
Hey, folks, So my radiation burns have nearly healed (just a couple of small scabs left, three and a half weeks after finishing treatment, and no oozy...
So we're watching this TV show called "TRAPPED."
Hey, folks, Well, I’m healing, slowly. There is some skin or scar tissue that wasn’t there before, and I’m kind of hoping that by Friday or Monday I might...
"A Blessing of Unicorns" available online now.
Hey folks. Asimov's has made its Locus-Award-Nominated short fiction for 2021 available online, including my story "A Blessing of Unicorns." Enjoy!
Big UK discount on MACHINE
Hey, folks! Just a quick note to let UK readers know that MACHINE is a Kindle Monthly Deal for 99p at Amazon UK! Remember to always take Mantis Cop's advice!...
Book Club, January 2022
So I mentioned over in the discord that I was reading a book that made me really angry. And in fact, it made me so angry that I wound up posting a goodreads...
I don't believe that everything happens for a reason. (CW, cancer stuff)
Well, I’m done with the radiation treatments. They gave me a certificate and a cute pink superheroine pen and let me pin a pink ribbon to a corkboard. (It...
Peter Pan Vs. Jenny Waynest
Actually I bet they'd get along famously.
Five More Fire Hydrants
CW: cancer stuff and one more piece of practical advice. Well, I am scabrous, rugose, and desquamating. I've got blisters in my underboob and peeling,...
Thirty Thousand Pounds of Bananas
(If you don't know the reference, you're one of today's lucky ten thousand: ) So the Great Minnesota Potato Spill drama has been a source of much joy in many...
Tomorrow, and then the next day, and then the day after that.
(CW: cancer stuff) One of the worst things about modern social media is the damn algorithms that ensure that people will posts out of order and out of...
Pro tips for surviving radiotherapy.
So you've got a hot date with Medusa. 1) I'm really sorry about that. 2) Here's a few things that make the process more endurable. (This is flat-out advice,...
The gifts that cancer gave me.
It turns out being suddenly, dangerously ill isn’t all bad. Especially if it’s the kind of illness I have, which would kill me if left untreated but other...
Karhu on sisukas nainen.
Karhu on sisukas nainen. My friend Chelsea, who is learning Finnish, told me that today. It means, they said, Bear is a woman with sisu. Sisu, per Chelsea,...
Medusa and me
A couple of people have asked for details of how the radiation treatments work, so I wrote this out for one of them, and figured I would copy it here in case...
I'm doing science and I'm still alive.
Well, not me. I’m not doing science. But I have been reading some science, and I’m realizing that one of the amazing things about the Current Unpleasantness...
December Book Club
Well, the long drive is good for podcasts and audiobooks! I'm still on the mystery kick. I finished the second Helene Tursten, An Elderly Lady Must Not Be...
Cancer stuff update, also rambling about life (CW, cancer stuff, obvs.)
Well, as I was sitting down to write this, I heard the news that Betty White had died. So as I compose these lines, I'm listening to Andrew Gold's "Thank You...
I'm a bad person and you deserve better but this is what you get.
Ensemble: Haul out the hellhoundsString up the sigils before a spirit gnaws on usI hear it stalkingI may be rushing things, but ward the walls, don't make a...