An Interesting Occurrence of Personalization
In which I discuss how a reader pulled a totally different meaning from a piece of my writing.
Essential OS X Apps for Writers
Please excuse the clickbait-y title. I don’t claim to speak for #AllWriters with this post. Instead, I’m going to highlight a few Mac OS X desktop applications that I find essential to my writing process. This isn’t an exhaustive list, and I’m going to leave off mobile apps (with some exceptions) and browser extensions because…
I’m not dead
Nor have I been recruited into a clandestine organization of super-spies. For the past few weeks, I’ve had technical difficulties of the “spilled hot liquid all over my computer” variety, but I’m working on that. I’ve also started a new job which serves to eat up a bunch of the time that I normally used…
In Defense of Sword and Soul
If you’re a frequent visitor of my blog, you’ve seen me talk about Imaro. You’ve seen me post about it’s impact on me as a reader and writer. I’ve stopped just short of arguing that it should be considered among canonical SFF texts, right there with the works of all the racist grandpas. I am…
Heart of the City: Examining Half-Resurrection Blues and the “Urban” in Urban Fantasy
Disclaimer: I know that genres are messy, fluid, and often slip and slide all over each other even in the same story. But there are still some delineations that can be made, and I ask you to work with me during this post as I try to make sense of this stuff. Thanks in advance!…
New Comics | Malice in Ovenland
Malice in Ovenland Release Date: Available Now Credits: Words and Art by Micheline Hess Price: $1.94 Digital Download over at PeepGame Comix Malice in Ovenland is a new all-ages title from the folks over at Rosarium, who’ve given us such comic classics as DayBlack, Jennifer’s Journal, and Kid Code: Channel Zero. In addition to these,…
Memoirs of an Atypical Blerd
Originally posted on Phenderson Djèlí Clark:
A few years ago someone told me I was a Blerd. I had no idea what they were talking about. But (as I was then told) I’m black, I like SFF, and I talk about it a whole lot. So that makes me a Blerd. Okay. Fine. Whatevs.…
#LLAP
We are assembled here today to pay final respects to our honored dead. And yet it should be noted that in the midst of our sorrow, this death takes place in the shadow of new life, the sunrise of a new world; a world that our beloved comrade gave his life to protect and nourish. He did not feel this sacrifice a vain or empty one, and we will not debate his profound wisdom at these proceedings. Of my friend, I can only say this: of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most… human.
