Foter Crossposted to the Deadline Dames. Yes, of course. Your ebook is reading you. When you’re reading an ebook, every move you make can be tracked–and probably is. Set aside how skeezy it is to have your reading habits suddenly fodder for advertisers’ consumption; what I want to talk about is a passage near the [...]
Spencer Finnley / Foter What about writer’s block? I get asked this a hundred different times, in a hundred different ways. And since the old blog post was lost in the recent hacker attack (*sigh*) I might as well make a new one, right? So let’s get to it. I do not believe in writer’s [...]
deflam / Foter I just finished Judith Walkowitz’s excellent City of Dreadful Delight; I have her Prostitution and Victorian London in the revolving TBR stack, as well as a bunch of Jack the Ripper books. Can you tell what the next Bannon & Clare features? Speaking of which, I received a missive from a possibly-disgruntled [...]
“Mewling quim“, Mr. Whedon? Really? You’re proud of that? Look, I like your work, and I even contributed to the Nothing But Red anthology. I was glad to, that post was awesome. But I don’t think you’re the friend to feminism you’re seen as, and there’s only so far that post of yours will take [...]
Lemuel Montejo /Stock Photos I am telling you that if you are fighting I love you, if you are standing up I love you, if you are refusing to back down I love you, and we will find each other, we will. I promise. I can’t tell you how to make sense of it but [...]
Just a quick note: I installed a plugin that was supposed to make the site more secure. (Stupid hackers making me paranoid.) Anyway, it did, I guess…but it also ate several comments. Which I just figured out today. So if you made a comment and it didn’t show, no, I’m not holding it in the [...]
Get out the pitchforks and torches, it’s that kind of day… So, there’s been some brouhaha in the book-reviewing world. Mostly, it’s been yet another edition of Authors Behaving Badly, and I’ll just point you at Cleolinda’s rundown and my own hoary old advice. Of course writers shouldn’t respond, positively or negatively, to reviews. Of [...]
Hear that? The gargling sound? That’s the sound of one of the worst weekends in recent history swirling down the drain. I am not sad to see it go, either. This morning’s run was a pounding away of stress, frustration, anger, sadness, you name it. It was only four miles, but both Miss B and [...]
Last night, the Topeka, Kansas, city council voted to decriminalize domestic violence. I can’t say it any better than Jim C. Hines does: “To the folks behind this mess, congratulations! You not only fail as decent human beings, you also suck at math.” As Erik Scott deBie remarked: To paraphrase Kansas govt: “Down with the [...]
Some tidbits for your consideration: * Dina James’s new book is out! Dina is my Evil #1 over at the ELEW, and a lovely person. * A call to action against a serial plagiarist. * Topeka, Kansas, is looking to decriminalize domestic violence. To, erm, save money. (If I halt to comment on this, there [...]