It’s that time of year again. It’s the time of year for lists. Everyone is making them – Best This Thing, Best That Thing, Top 10 Doodads, Top Ten Whatevers. Lists, lists, lists and I’m falling behind. I haven’t made too many lists yet, and I’m going to hold off on my Best Books of…

About the Book The Dangerous Women anthology contains following stories: – Introduction by Gardner Dozois – “Some Desperado” by Joe Abercrombie – A Red Country story – “My Heart is Either Broken” by Megan Abbott – “Nora’s Song” by Cecelia Holland – “The Hands That Are Not There” by Melinda Snodgrass – “Bombshells” by Jim…

Today my author-love series continues with a post about why I think Elizabeth Bear is amazing, and why you should read her books (and love them). This series will take place every Monday (unless I forget or run out of people to talk about). — I read my first Elizabeth Bear book a few years…

About the Book Elizabethan spy Mal Catlyn has everything he ever wanted—his twin brother Sandy restored to health, his family estate reclaimed and a son to inherit it—but his work isn’t over yet. The guisers’ leader, Jathekkil, has reincarnated as the young Prince Henry Tudor, giving Mal a chance to eliminate his enemies whilst they…

I don’t even know what to say. So if you’ve emailed me and I haven’t replied, it’s not because I’m being rude, it’s because I’m just shocked. It’s amazing how your life can turn upside-down on a dime and it just leaves you sinking… adrift…. wondering how you’ll survive. Part of me just wants to…

My husband was just laid off. There was no warning. In fact, as far as we knew, the company was doing great.. until today when they called about half of his company into a “special project meeting” where they read from a special letter from corporate and fired them all. I guess the company’s “go…

About the Book Something More Than Night is a Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler-inspired murder mystery set in Thomas Aquinas’s vision of Heaven. It’s a noir detective story starring fallen angels, the heavenly choir, nightclub stigmatics, a priest with a dirty secret, a femme fatale, and the Voice of God. Somebody has murdered the angel…

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving in this neck of the woods and I’m too busy/lazy to write up a review right now. I figured I’d do something fun an interactive instead. So, here’s a little questionnaire I’m writing up for all of you lovely people to answer. Why? Because I want my to-be-read pile to be big…

About the Book All her life Jessica Drake has dreamed of other worlds, some of them similar to her own, others disturbingly alien. She never shares the details with anyone, save her younger brother Tommy, a compulsive gamer who incorporates some aspects of Jessica’s dreams into his games. But now someone is asking about those…

This week’s Special Needs in Strange Worlds just went live, and it is a really special one to me. I interviewed my oldest brother. He is disabled and happens to be the person who got me into the genre in the first place. I talk to him about why SFF appeals to him, and the…