This morning, as Donald Trump left the White House for (*knocks on wood*) the last time, it was snowing outside. Just a light sprinkling of little sugar flakes, sticking to some surfaces but not to others. And then as he took off, the sun poked through for a moment — a patch of blue sky […]
So, I started talking a bit about blurbs on books over yonder hills at Twitter, and it became clear that a lot of folks, even other writers new to this whole CHAOS CIRCUS, don’t even entirely understand them. Hell, maybe I don’t even understand them. It’s possible they’re some kind of Idea Virus, some Memetic Parasite […]
Charity Blake became a nightmare. But there are far more dangerous monsters out there than her. Train-wreck antihero Charity Blake thrives at being a winged avenger, but exacting vengeance takes as much from her as it gives. To retain the humanity she’s fought tooth and claw to keep, she tries to walk away from her […]
I’m a writer (er, obviously, are you new here?) and with everything going on, with the Capitol Siege and Stupid Coup and all of it, I want to give voice to it, I want to write about it, to make sense of it, but I have no sense of it. I have no meaningful words. […]
Every year I like to do a writer’s resolution. Something that’s more for me than for you, but maybe also for you, should it apply. Resolutions are tricky, of course: I don’t ever want to make them a necessity, and certainly there’s something arbitrary about picking a calendar date to be like, OKAY TIME TO […]
So, sometimes I do the year end recaps and year-ahead look-forwards as separate posts, and sometimes I do an even SEPARATER (not a word) post about the pop culture stuff I enjoyed — But this year, I’m running them all through the blender and am just gonna dump the resultant blog smoothie onto your screen. Because […]