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2023: The Year of Speeches
Speaking engagement plans for 2023 are shaping up: March 15-18: ICFA, Orlando, FL April 20-23: IMsLBB Piscataway, NJ May 19-22: MISTI-Con 10th Anniversary, Laconia, NH June 5: StoryStudio workshop...
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Support BENT for LEATHER, Cecilia Tan’s short story collection
Guess what I did? I launched a Kickstarter in the wee hours, hoping to be able to publish a collection of my queerest, kinkiest short stories in time for International Ms. Leather and Bootblack in...
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Editing Beyond the Non-Western World: Notes on a panel from ICFA44 in 2023
This morning was the ICFA panel on “Editing Beyond the Non-Western World,” which was intended to feature guest of honor Oghenechovwe Donal Ekpeki, as well as myself, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Neil Clarke,...
View ArticleEulogy for Dr. Sergio S. Tan, my father
My Dad passed away a few weeks ago. This past weekend was his funeral, and here’s the address I gave to the over-100 friends, family, and neighbors who gathered to celebrate and honor him. I wrote this...
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Cover reveal! 17 “Hot & Sticky” Summer Reads from @PassionateInk
Summer beach reading season is almost here, and so is the release of a new anthology from 17 authors in Passionate Ink, including myself! Passionate Ink is the leading organization for erotica and...
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Readercon 32 (2023) Schedule
I’m finally returning to Readercon after a few years of pandemic-forced break! And the schedule I’ve got looks quite juicy! Readercon, if you’re not familiar with it, is a science fiction convention,...
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2023 in Review
So. This was the year that my cat died, my Dad died, and I got COVID. I keep saying I’ve been getting no writing done. But that’s not exactly true…? It’s mostly that I haven’t been progressing on the...
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Con schedules! For Arisia, Capricon, and ICFA!
I’m speaking at three cons in three months to start 2024: Arisia: January 12-15 in Boston Capricon: February 1-4 in Chicago ICFA March 13-17 in Orlando Details below! ARISIA Friday Night Erotica...
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Ann Bannon and Cecilia Tan Discuss 20th Century Lesbian Pulp & Erotica
From Closet to Classic: Ann Bannon and Cecilia Tan Discuss 20th Century Lesbian Pulp & Erotica I’m very excited and honored to be doing this online talk with Ann Bannon, the legendary author of the...
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Ann Bannon / Cecilia Tan Lesbian Pulp Fiction Talk
Well, that was fun! My talk with Ann Bannon went swimmingly. We could have easily talked for another hour. Over 200 people had RSVP’d for the event and all throughout, each time one of us said...
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Duck Day 2023: Full Canto
If you’ve read my “Duck Day” posts before, you know it’s my rundown of what corwin and I made for Thanksgiving. In 2023 we left for Aruba with my Mom that Saturday, and I thought I would work on the...
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How BDSM is Like Frozen Yogurt
So, I’m reorganizing the way I handle my blog(s), email list, Patreon, and social media. I’m going to crosspost a monthly “news and notes” across all platforms. It’ll typically open with what I call...
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Occam’s Razor is Wrong, Sharang Biswas is Right (my March newsletter)
In this newsletter: Thinky Thoughts: Occam’s Razor is Wrong Daron’s Guitar Chronicles new covers live at LGBTQ Reads! Newsletter Guest: Sharang Biswas! And an actual cover reveal! Book recommendation...
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Going to Great Lengths to Definitely Not See the Sun
The total solar eclipse as seen from Colebrook, New Hampshire, with Venus visible in the sky and the sunset effect through bare trees. In this newsletter Thinky Thoughts: Going to Great Lengths to...
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The Unexpected, the Sublime, and the pastime of looking up.
Welcome to my latest monthly newsletter! If you’d prefer to get this directly in your email each month, you can sign up here: http://eepurl.com/TEWfv or you can join my patreon to get not only posts...
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Are we in a Golden Age of Queer & Trans SF/F?
Hello and welcome to another ctan monthly updatet! It’s Pride Month, so today let’s talk about queer science fiction and fantasy. First some housekeeping: Mailchimp has been driving me nuts, with the...
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Starting August 1: an erotic steampunk adventure
So….. I’ve been threatening to start publishing some erotic fiction over on my Patreon for a while now and I’m finally organized enough to get it going. As a kind of test run before we do anything...
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Duck Day 2023: Full Canto
If you’ve read my “Duck Day” posts before, you know it’s my rundown of what corwin and I made for Thanksgiving. In 2023 we left for Aruba with my Mom that Saturday, and I thought I would work on the...
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How BDSM is Like Frozen Yogurt
So, I’m reorganizing the way I handle my blog(s), email list, Patreon, and social media. I’m going to crosspost a monthly “news and notes” across all platforms. It’ll typically open with what I call...
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Occam’s Razor is Wrong, Sharang Biswas is Right (my March newsletter)
In this newsletter: Thinky Thoughts: Occam’s Razor is Wrong Daron’s Guitar Chronicles new covers live at LGBTQ Reads! Newsletter Guest: Sharang Biswas! And an actual cover reveal! Book recommendation...
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