The price of being a princess: a disturbing number of people took Fred’s letter seriously (including my mother!), so Fred posted this comment on my blog. Per request, I’ve recalled my flying monkey assassins. ********************************* You see, Alethea? I told you some people wouldn’t realize it was a joke. Now Kontisphile assassins are on the way to my house…
Buy this book, or the author will HIT YOU WITH A SHOVEL. Happy birthday, Jeff. 🙂
In case you missed it, Apex Digest is now online, and ready to be consumed by the masses. My latest essay, “Almost Back” is up now. Jay Lake, Brian Keene, and Global Thermonuclear War in possibly the most personal essay I’ve ever written. What more could you ask for? * Jay Lake had colon cancer this summer. I followed…
So…we’re talking at lunch, right? (Ridley Pearson = hugely SUPER nice guy, btw) We all really hit it off, and there was never a lull in the conversation. Ridley and I are talking when they bring my salad before the meal. (Okay, *I* am talking.) And because there is little room on this table, I take Killer View (his…
I figured out why it was that I kept putting off writing about Mo*Con: history. Kelli Dunlap and I discussed this during one of our early-morning Garage Talk sessions — as writers, we have this special magical power to rewrite the parts of history that we don’t like. And you are all at our mercy. What happens at conventions?…
Went geocaching in the cemetery with Mark Rainey, and the Mother Grove concert was FANTASTIC. You wish you were here!!
“I need some distraction, oh beautiful releaseMemory seeps from my veins…”–Sarah McLachlan, “Angel” There is a mouse in my house. I was sitting in the middle of my living room floor, surrounded by obsessive compulsive piles of papers as I go through long-procrastinated boxes of junk and watch the movies that John has been piling up on my doorstep….
Maurice wrote a lovely post a couple of weeks ago in his Friday Night Date Place series called True Beauty. And there’s a great picture in there of us from Once Upon a Time at World Horror Convention. “Beauty sometimes needs to be drawn out. Better stated, sometimes beauty doesn’t recognize its own preciousness.” –M. Broaddus Yeah, I got…
Apparently Bob passed away on Wednesday, but lrainey just brought it to my attention. He was only 62. I had no idea he was such a legend in the SCA, but it makes sense. I will miss seeing him at Dragon*Con and various other conventions we frequented…he was someone who brought joy into my life, and I’m sorry that…
Ever the world traveler, Genre Chick Alethea Kontis takes us into the Australian Outback for this month’s interview with New York Times bestselling author Sean Williams. Find out what a cool place Australia is, how fascinating twins can be, and whether or not writing a book is harder than becoming someone’s other half. ************************** The dashing Sean Williams is…
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