Kirstie Alley died last week, and I am having some feelings about it.
I've never been somebody to pretend that the connection we feel in a parasocial relationship isn't real: of course it is, and in some ways it's both the...
Jenny Casey, Audiobook Edition
Well look at this. I'm thrilled to announce that all three Jenny Casey books are available for purchase or pre-order as audiobooks in the US... finally. :D...
Behind the times on the book club again
But I did actually manage to read a few things this month. One was How to Keep House While Drowning by K.C. Davis, which I recommend to everybody feeling...
I have a new hobby
It's stealing "No Geese Allowed" signs. Sometimes, the best way to deal with overwhelm is to be goose, do crimes. The sign beside the sidewalk sale is too...
Cancer is the gift that keeps on giving (no terrible news, don't worry.)
Well, I think I mentioned here that my last mammogram came back clear. However, I had a real fucking adventure on the way to Viable Paradise, which was that...
Book club! I got NOTHING read in October.
Nothing I can talk about anyway, it was all student manuscripts for Viable Paradise. What did you read that was amazing? I have about seven books I’m halfway...
I'm not leaving twitter just yet but I am branching out. Also, anthology!
Hey folks, just wanted to stick a flag in the fact that I have resurrected my camped but ignored counter.social account (it’s @matociquala, surprising...
New Story Day!
Not only is Tasting Light, edited by A.R. Capetta and Wade Roush, out today, featuring ten new hard SF stories for teen readers (and adult readers too!)...
Horse updates: all is chaos!
Ormr is fine, first off—but everything has been a lot lately. We’ve managed to find a new farrier, but Ormr, after 15 years barefoot, is not on board with...
An actual book club post despite my abject failure to read almost anything lately
So I have managed to finish three whole books in the last two months, which may be an all-time low. (I’ve been reading a lot of articles and news coverage,...
There's no such thing as a free lunch, and other bullshit lies we tell each other.
Trust me, I'm 9/10ths of an anthropologist
A poignant anniversary
It’s one of my personal holidays today. Long-time readers of my old livejournal and even occasionally Twitter willl have heard me speak of this before, but...
Virtuosity
How does a best-seller happen, anyway? This post is brought to you by several overlapping sets of ripples in the Discourse, obviously, but it’s not a...
OCCUPY GONDOR: A Virtual Panel with Katherine Addison, Scott Lynch, C.L. Polk, Arkady Martine, Max Gladstone, and me!
Join me and five of the smartest, funniest people I know on September 30th at 9 pm Eastern/6 pm Pacific to talk about all the different ways speculative...
The unbearable everywhereness of hustle culture
I’m writing this to you from the sunny (for now) patio of a rental cottage as far from civilization as it’s possible to get, and still be in Ireland. My...
Obligatory Tom Waits Reference Here!
Somehow it seems like Sunstack never sent this out? Sorry, folks, it was meant to go out Sunday the 4th, and I didn’t notice because I was at Worldcon! I...
A view from a high place
We're in Dublin briefly before heading off on a writing retreat in an undisclosed location (It’s Kerry) for a few days, where we plan to do nearly nothing...
Sort of an everything update
Hey, folks, It’s been kind of a zoo around here lately, and the only reason I’m finding the time to actually update this newsletter is because I hurt my...
I seem to have a WorldCon Schedule.
How weird is that? ?
Signed book sale!
Signed copies of my work (and anything in the store that's not already on sale!) are available through V. J. Books at a 50% discount for the month of August...