Horse Stories 7
Summer is here with a vengeance, quite suddenly. It was 40 degrees last weekend. Today, it is over 90. The horse is in his barn, and my exercise for today...
What we've been doing around here...
Dinner is cooking. It's chicken and rice with root vegetables and a Greekish dill yogurt sauce. I have spent most of the day working on White Space #3, The...
Horse Stories 6
Last Thursday, when we had our riding lesson, we did a very ridiculous thing, which involved trotting around poles, moving traffic cones from one pole to...
May Book Club
I finished The Stand. Honestly, I kind of feel like that’s enough for one month. But! I also reread (re-listened?) Stephen Brusatte’s podcast-ish The Rise...
Horse Stories 5
I'm writing this on Thursday, May 20th and will send it out next week. Ormr is on a diet, and he's not too pleased about it. You will notice that there are...
THE RED MOTHER cover
Art by Greg Manchess. Edited by Jonathan Strahan. Coming next month from Tor.com.
The Red Mother cover reveal tomorrow
If you like: -Sarcastic queer disaster Vikings -dubious ponies -riddles -kinship duty -poor life choices This one's for you. Cover reveal tomorrow! Story...
Protagonist syndrome: what it means to you.
Hey, folks, So we’re still working our way through Breaking Bad and also Life. (Scott has watched Breaking Bad before and liked it; I watched Life before and...
Lilac Syrup (and) short fiction print publication news.
Hey, folks, I made a duck for my Mom’s birthday, so the cats got braised duck innards for lunch, and they think this is a very fine thing and should possibly...
Machine Paperbacks (and) Horse Stories 4
Hey folks, Just wanted to let you know that the UK paperback of Machine will be out on Thursday, May 27th. I just got my author copies this week and it looks...
Horse Stories 3
Hey folks, So yesterday, I rode Ormr, which was actually the first time I've ridden him since LAST Thursday, though I was over at the barn Saturday, Sunday,...
Adventures with cats
Molly: I am on the armoire! Pet me, pet me, pet me! Me: **Pets, dutifully.** Molly: **Purrs and wiggles and purrs until she accidentally steps off into thin...
un/conscious in/competence
What if you don't even know what you need to learn in order to improve?
Horse Stories 2
I'm writing this on April 29; I'm going to send it out Monday May 3, but when I say "today" and "yesterday," I mean Thursday and Wednesday, respectively....
What to expect when you're coping with the unexpected
Congratulations, everybody. We’ve gotten to a point where we can maybe see the first tickle of the end of the crisis. Or maybe, to be more precise, the...
Horse Stories 1
So my friend Sarah Monette, who is also Katherine Addison, posts dressage stuff and horse stories over on her Patreon, and I figured, you know what, Ormr and...
Gatekeepers.
Hey folks, I’ve been thinking a lot about the idea of “gatekeepers” and traditional publishing in the sense of agents and editors and publishers, and the...
Does what it says on the tin!
Hey, on Tuesday I'm giving a free talk at ARU's Creative Showcase on how to survive the creative life with your emotional health mostly intact!...
April Book Club Post
Hey folks, Spring is busting out all over the place, and I spent about twenty-five woman-hours mulching the yard in the past two weeks. I'm drowning in...
I'll be at Virtual Eastercon this weekend!
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