The BBC recently asked why, ten years after the cult TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ ran, there are so few ‘daughters of Buffy’: “strong and complex fictional creations, who…Continue readingWhere are Buffy’s Daughters?
Vignettes from my town There are times that I do wish I lived in the same century as the rest of the world, that I carried a smartphone with me…Continue readingThe Dancing Santa & Obama
They left the world behind and flew out into eternal night falling into the moon a thousand stars beyond its rim shimmer softly, diamond dust in the darkness a long…Continue readingEarthrise
This could be your last chance to bid on turning into a Were-creature in the second book of my new YA series, The Were Chronicles. (The first book in the…Continue readingDo you want to be a Were?
io9 has compiled a map of the Weirdest Sex Laws in the United States and Charlie Jane Anders suggests that you better look to make sure you’re not going to…Continue readingIs your sex life against the law?
The Kids’ Right to Read Project investigated three times the average number of book banning incidents last month, Shelf Awareness reports. A number of notable works by minority writers were…Continue readingWhich books are banned?
Scientist Andrew David Thaler decided to write a novel set in a post-sea-level-rise world, Charlie Jane Anders reports on io9. To make Fleet as scientifically realistic as he could, he…Continue readingWill rising seas drown your town?
I recently found out about an amazing new project on Kickstarter – an anthology called Athena’s Daughters that is of the women by the women and for … well, for…Continue readingWhen strong women prevail
Then be happy, you’re probably creative — well, you could be anyhow. My desk? Surely it proves I am a creative genius. Einstein: “If a cluttered desk is a sign…Continue readingIs your desk messy?