Mirror Dance re-opens to submissions

That's the big news for today. See the guidelines here, and note that we have a new address for e-mail submissions.

"Palingenesis" has garnered some nice words from Charles Payseur at Quick Sip Reviews (a new favorite review blog, by the way: Payseur's comments are generous, attentive, and lyrically written) and Maria Haskins, who recommends it along with eight other "intriguing" speculative stories from around the web. I won't be linking to the review at Tangent, which misgenders a non-binary character in a way that strikes me as deeply dismissive, if not intentionally malicious. In fact, I'll link to this instead: American Dialect Society, "2015 Word of the Year is singular 'they'."

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Friday, January 15, 2016

Mirror Dance, reviews, the writer in its natural habitat

Recommended Reading

I'm flattered to see that "Lessons from a Clockwork Queen" appears (with three stars!) on Tangent Online's Recommended Reading list for 2011.

Also, Lois Tilton gave "The Gardens of Landler Abbey" a "recommended" rating, which is wonderful and unexpected.

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Monday, January 02, 2012

Beneath Ceaseless Skies, fantasy, reviews, short fiction

The French, they love me...

...except when they don't.

So, because I'm an egotist to the nth degree, I have a Google alert on my name. And for some reason, I'm starting to get alerts on really old blog and forum posts. Like this one: Apparently, I'm one of the worst things to happen to fantasy in 2006-2008. :-)

Aw, I feel all special now. I'm even blushing.

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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

foreign language, reviews, that's MY name on the ballot

Who let me on the opinion train?

This post called "Four Lies from the Mouth of God" "A beautifully written, truly awful story about the price women (and children) can pay for the political actions of men. Powerful reading, but I plan never to read it again."

My feelings are two.

1) Thank God someone appreciates the awfulness! I feared some things had lost their power to disgust.

2) Women paying for the actions of men? I thought this story was, if anything, about a man paying for the actions of a woman, children paying for the actions of that man, children paying for the actions of that woman, and finally the woman paying for her own actions. God save me from making a statement on gender--I am most horrendously unqualified.

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Friday, January 29, 2010

preaching to the invisible choir, reading, reviews, short fiction