This probably isn’t rocket science to any of you…
But since I started reading a lot of e-books, I stopped posting a lot of text fragments. It has taken me this long to figure out that I can highlight the good bit, hit SHARE, choose Twitter, and DM...
View ArticleLatest #amreading post – Little Star
I read Little Star because the first chapter was on offer at Tor.com and the description intrigued me. I am so glad I did. It is a dark, disturbing thriller. It’s indisputably a horror novel, but it’s...
View ArticleGone Girl, with spoilers
A number of my students are reading Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn right now. It was on my list; Barb had recommended it to me, and I’d liked Sharp Objects a lot, so the timing seemed perfect. A lot of the...
View ArticleBelated #amreading The Warlock’s Curse by M.K. Hobson
So, finally, The Warlock’s Curse! Here’s the very pretty cover: But what’s inside? I reviewed M.K. Hobson’s second novel, The Hidden Goddess, for Tor.com back when it came out. And I have been eagerly...
View ArticleAnd now I #amreading At Home by Bill Bryson & Broken Harbour (again)
I slow down on reading when I’m teaching a novel-writing class, naturally–having ten to fifteen student novels on the go takes up a certain amount of fiction-reading head space. It’s a regrettable side...
View ArticleWhy go through the portal?
Janni Simner continued the conversation about portal fantasy that’s been bubbling along online, and one of the things she touches on in the process of discussing real-world consequences for a visit to...
View ArticleReading in 2012 – the whole shebang (#amreading)
Here’s all the books and many of the short stories I read in 2012 1. The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, by Stephen Greenblatt 2. Among Others, by Jo Walton 3. Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic...
View ArticleBook Trailer and Giveaway: @lvoisin’s The Watcher
I had the good fortune to get to read Lisa Voisin’s first novel, The Watcher, in my capacity as a writing teacher, and I was so pleased when I heard she’d sold it to Inkspell Press. Now there’s a book...
View ArticleDelicious prose crumbs
It has been awhile since I posted a text fragment, but I loved this little bit of The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey. If you want a few good reasons to read this novel, Jo Walton makes the case...
View ArticleIn which I #amreading about the history of fingerprinting…
I am currently more than halfway through Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification, by Simon A. Cole. The title’s pretty self-explanatory, I think. This is research...
View ArticleI #amreading (though slowly) – Eighty Days
I have probably mentioned this before, but when I was a tween, the Scholastic Book Order club was pretty much the highlight of my school existence. Every month they’d send out a two page book catalog,...
View ArticleChi Chi Chitastic
Kelly and I went to our first SF community event Wednesday night, a ChiSeries reading featuring Guy Gavriel Kay, E.L. Chen, Jim Munroe and Leon Rooke. The monthly readings are held at The Augusta...
View ArticleToronto day 76
Kelly and I went to a book launch for Ryan North’s Choose Your Own Adventure Hamlet graphic novel, To Be or Not To Be on Monday. It was a massive event–the signing was happening outside a pub, and...
View ArticleBarcelona mystery novel…
I’m thinking of trying out The Summer of Dead Toys. Anyone read it?
View ArticleSuper Stories of Heroes & Villains is out next month!
Our move from Vancouver had just started to build up a little momentum this spring when I sold Claude Lalumiere my story “Faces of Gemini” for the Super Stories of Heroes and Villains anthology, and...
View ArticleToronto, Day 124
It’s been quite chilly in the mornings for a couple now, on the order of six or seven degrees when we leave the house at 7:30. Breezy, too. It’s easy to forget how windy Vancouver isn’t. I’ve broken...
View ArticleToronto, Day 129
Last week was full of petty frustrations and upheavals, nothing huge, but enough to put a glower on my face, from time to time, and shadow my attention to the many things, big and small, that were...
View ArticleThe #BuffyRewatch also got to review #Hild this week on @tordotcom
I have two new essays up on Tor this week. The Buffy rewatch is up to “Lessons.” (Meanwhile, I have only just finished submitting the essay on “Help,” and I see I gave them very similar titles. Sigh.)...
View ArticleReading, Riting, Rithmatik
I have begun Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall this week, having finished The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History and Hild, but I have only just scratched the surface. The bulk of...
View ArticleWhere does all the awesome come from? Jack Womack and the #BuffyRewatch
Tor.com has a new feature called That Was Awesome: Writers on Writing and the inaugural post is one by me, on Jack Womack’s uber-fantastic coming of age diary, Random Acts of Senseless Violence . The...
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