There’s Something About Mary

I interviewed my dear friend, Campbell Award Winner, and Puppinatrix Mary Robinette Kowal for the latest issue of Subterranean Online. Find out the bizarre circumstances behind our first meeting and how, despite that, I seem to still rate an appearance in Mary’s perfect day. Be sure to also read Mary’s short story "Waiting for Rain." Princess Mary at the…

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Sk8er Girl: CANCELLED

 it was like a movie. It was horrible sleety rain outside, but I was going to brave it anyway — the path to the Skating Rink is a side road, straight shot, so it would have been fine as long as I took it slow. I checked — yup, still rain. I got my towel and camera and cell…

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Tea in Space: Watchmen

The League of Extraordinary Ladies Join Kitti, Alethea, Lillie, and Janet this month as we share some English Breakfast, toast Lillie’s birthday, and chat about Alan Moore’s classic graphic novel Watchmen. Oh yes, even comic book geek chicks have tea parties too! You can listen to the podcast here. The Fantastic Four of Ingram Book Company

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Sk8er Girl: Week Six: Skategossip

Miss Kitti Sunrise lends me her shoulder I was exhausted yesterday. Black Wednesday came and went, and it was a horrible freaking day. I had stayed up into the wee hours curled up in a blanket on the couch, watching Season Two of Dexter. I knew I wasn’t going to get much sleep, and I preferred to wake up…

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Everything’s All Right Up Here

Two items of emotional significance happened to me in the past week: I forgot an anniversary, and I got a song back. And the emotion I’m feeling now because of those two things? Happiness. Sheer and utter happiness. Last year, on the morning of Tuesday, November 20th, two days before Thanksgiving, I found out something so horrible that a…

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Tea in Space: Extraordinary Engines

Peach Tea & Stupendous Steampunk! Join the Genre Chicks Lillie, Kitti, Alethea, and Janet for this month’s podcast, where we discuss Extraordinary Engines, a steampunk anthology edited by Nick Gevers. Listen in on the conversation here. What you can’t hear in the background is the banging from the Men on the Roof — Ingram is in month four of…

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Let Them Eat Toast

So Eddie and I had grand plans this weekend. Saturday: Quantum of Solace (a.k.a.: 30 Days Around the World with His Majesty’s Hotness Daniel Craig). Sunday: brunch at Sherlock’s, starring the long-anticipated Bananas Foster French Toast. Bananas Foster reminds me of the Ordoyne’s kitchen in Atlanta, and my pyromaniac father eager as ever to light something on fire. French…

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Sk8er Girl: Week Five: New Skates

…and a new lj profile pic to go with them! Yay! It was like magic. I was the wind on magic skates. My new skates weigh about 50 lbs less than the house skates, the ankle support is amazingly stiff (I look forward to breaking them in), and THEY HAVE PURPLE WHEELS. How can you not be magic with purple wheels?…

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