(x-posted from kickstart_tu)

Dear Friends,

Any of you who follow my livejournal know that recently, I had the opportunity to have Stacy Whitman (slwhitman) write a guest post about her plans for her new publishing house: Tu Publishing. The mission is admirable: the books put out by Tu Publishing will feature multicultural heroes and heroines, helping science fiction ( Read more... )

Three years ago, when I was the teaching assistant on the trip to Ireland, I mentioned Firefly, because it was quotable (and because I often reference it). Only one of the people on the trip -- a group of seventeen students and three chaperons -- had seen it. This eliminated a good chunk of my referential humor (since that had been one of my main ( Read more... )