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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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Now Available: The Blossoms of Summer erotic steampunk
Available for purchase almost anywhere books are sold, including: Porter Square Books (my local indie bookstore!) Powell’s! Amazon (ebook and paperback) Bookshop (paperback only) Barnes & Noble...
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Let’s Talk About Fear (and erotica)
Thinky Thoughts: Let’s Talk About Fear Welcome to the spookiest month of the year! I figure this is a great time for some thinky thoughts about fear—specifically how crucial fear is in erotic fiction....
View ArticleThe Time is Now (to support a sm*t writer in your life)
I sent out my email newsletter in the wee hours this morning, and in this post I’m going to expand on some things I said in it. (Because even 12 hours later, some things already need updating!)...
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Sample chapter: The Vanished Chronicles Book 1: Bound by the Blood
I continue to be gobsmacked at how quickly the patreon jumped up over the past week! We’re now only $29 short of the monthly goal that will trigger the serialization of Bound by the Blood, the first...
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Duck Day 2024 Wrap-up & Picspam!
Duck Day 2024: Foods & Dishes You Can’t Get Anymore Here we go, our annual Thanksgiving gourmet cooking extravaganza, in which we make no turkey, but do make duck. Each year with a different theme....
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Not my usual monthly update… (got married)
Yeah, so… biggest news of the week is that corwin and I got married. You might be surprised to find that, given all the romance I’ve written, I considered myself “anti-marriage.” I’ve never been...
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Writing and career news
Finally getting around to posting this update. I’ve been so busy with so much writing-related stuff, but not much actual writing… ! The biggest writing news this month is that I finally launched the...
View ArticleCranberry Nut Bread “Fruitcake” Recipe
So I’m blogging this recipe so I don’t forget all the changes I made to this recipe, because there were enough of them that it was significant, and yet the overall vibe of the result was the same, I...
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Arisia 2025 and Capricon 45 Schedules
I can hardly believe 2025 is already here, which means we are only a few weeks away from Arisia, the “big tent” science fiction/fantasy fan convention in Boston. Well, this year in Cambridge! And in...
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“A magic school book, but make it queer”
Here’s what’s keeping me super-busy this month… Can you believe it’s been 15 years since Magic University hit the (digital) shelves? It feels like a different era of history. In 2010, Obama was...
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Disney, my Dad, and the Very Bisexual T-Shirt
So, between Pride being yesterday here in Boston, and Father’s Day being today, I thought I’d tell you a story today of what Being Queer in the Nineties was like, and also (another) story about Dad. To...
View ArticleMy Readercon Schedule!
Whew! I’ll be making my Guest of Honor run at Readercon this coming weekend in Burlington, MA! It’s me and P. Djeli Clark in the GoH seats, with legions of super-smart sf/f writers and editors on the...
View ArticleMy Worldcon Schedule AND Boston Fan Expo (formerly Boston Comic Con)
Whew~! Readercon was a whirlwind, as expected, but so much fun. I had so many great panels, and I wrote down so many inspiring thoughts and quotes from fellow panelists. Two in particular from Vandana...
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Seattle Worldcon Report
There is not just one Worldcon. In Seattle this year, there were 5500 registered attendees plus another 2000 or so bought single-day memberships, meaning there were ~7500 different Worldcons this year....
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New story at Sunday Morning Transport! *rocket emoji*
I’m still riding the creative high and queer community solidarity feeling that came from reading at Writers With Drinks in Seattle. Charlie Jane Anders was an incandescent host, Charlie’s Queer Books...
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Chapter 4 from THE HOT STREAK!
In honor of my publisher putting a new cover on my baseball romance and moving it into Kindle Unlimited for a while, I figured I would publish a sample chapter for you all to enjoy. Here is Chapter...
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