The Guardian Quoted Me!

That’s all I’ve got.  See for yourself. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go celebrate with something sugary and delicious.  Yay! P.S.:  They also quoted Larry over at OF Blog, who gets quoted far more than I do…lucky bastard.

2011 Holiday Logo Design Contest!

If the title doesn’t entice you, then maybe this will: The lovely folks at ooShirts, a Bay Area independent shirt company, has offered a few t-shirts to us for The World in the Satin Bag and The Skiffy and Fanty Show.  Rather than shoving our logos on the shirts and enjoying them by ourselves, we […]

Happy Thanksgiving

Unlike a lot of my fellow Americans, I won’t pretend that this holiday celebrates anything other than being with family and eating an insane amount of food (which could probably feed a small, poor country for a year).  I won’t pretend that this holiday is about how great the Pilgrims were to the Native Americans, […]

RIP: Sara Douglass (a.k.a. Sara Warneke)

Sad news from Locus: Australian author Sara Warneke, 54, who wrote bestselling fantasy novels as Sara Douglass, died September 26, 2011 of cancer. She had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer last year and lost her battle earlier today. While I have not read much of her work, I know that the SF/F community will miss […]

Five Years of Mediocrity — How Did I Survive?

I was reminded of a very important fact today by SQT of Fantasy & Scifi Lovin’ News & Reviews and John Scalzi of Whatever (and writer of those funny things made of paper which we call books):  my blog is old.  But it’s not that old.  SQT has been at this blogging thing a year […]

Texas Wildfire Relief Fund: They Need Our Help!

The firefighters in Texas need a lot of help.  Due to budget cuts, a lot of firefighters are being forced to pay for supplies out of their own pockets.  Cutting from fire departments and other public services is always a stupid idea, but Rick Perry did it anyway.  And now Texans are suffering the consequences. […]