At Lit Hub, Rebecca Solnit offers a thoughtful essay entitled 80 Books No Woman Should Read She doesn’t actually offer such a list. The essay is in response to an…Continue readingTo Kill a Zombie
I was born too late to know ‘Dick and Jane’ — not to mention that I came from an entirely different culture, and taught myself to read long before entering…Continue reading‘Dick and Jane’ vs Dr. Seuss
In The Guardian, author Ursula K Le Guin, as the headline says Launches broadside on Amazon’s ‘sell it fast, sell it cheap’ policy Ursula K LeGuin at home in Portland…Continue readingThe Amazon Wars
A reader in Spain, Amy P, posted this note on Goodreads about my miracle novel, The Secrets of Jin-shei: Cuarta vez que leo este libro y no será la última.…Continue readingMy God: It’s been 10 years?
I mean heard my real voice, not the one you hear in your head when you read one of my books? No? Well here’s your chance.The Skiffy and Fanty podcast…Continue readingEver heard me?
We are living in a science fiction novel. Is our species evolving into a new superorganism taking over Earth? Gaia Vince thinks so. At BBC.com he makes the provocative argument…Continue readingAre we the enemy?
Oh, the stories waiting to be told… 28 magical paths begging to be walked, keeping in mind a quote from J. R. R. Tolkien: “It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going…Continue readingMagical paths
No, I get it. ‘Don’t judge a book by its cover’, and all that. BUT WE DO. It’s the first thing we see, the first aspect of the book that…Continue readingSnarking the Cover