I finally got around to reading Lumberjanes written by Noelle Stevenson and Grace Ellis / art by Brooke Allen


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 It's been a long time since I reviewed a comic book here.  But, when I was working at Shoreview today, I saw that they had the first collected volume of FAITH ( Read more... )

...is that you walk away with ART ( Read more... )

 Last night I had a reading at Magers & Quinn in Uptown.  I kind of wanted to bail on the whole thing, of course.  Like a lot of people I know, I spent much of yesterday breaking out into uncontrolled sobbing.  But, we were talking about Women in Science Fiction and I'd made a promise.  Moreover, the bookstore had made a concerted effort to have my ( Read more... )

 On Wednesday, Nov. 9, at Magers & Quinn in Minneapolis at 7:00 PM I'll be doing a "Writers in Conversation" with a number of other Twin Cities authors !

It'll be the day after the election and I'm sure you need an excuse to dig yourself up out of your blanket fort and be social with some really cool people!

From their events page:

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I feel somewhat responsible for the snow that fell this morning.  I was out of coffee in the house and decided to 'turn that frown upside down!' by using that as an excuse to fetch a fancy latte for me and muffins for my family.  At the coffee shop, I was talking to the barista about the weather (like you do in Minnesota) and I said, "It's raining ( Read more... )

I decided to do one more year reviewing award-nominees.

I will admit that part of the reason that I agreed to do the same challenge again (particularly in my role as SF/F book reviewer for Bitter Empire) is that I'm going to be attending WorldCON this year--and this is going to be another Year of the Puppy and I might like to be able to do some ( Read more... )

I have so many books out from the library for my award-nominee challenge right now, that I stopped to take inventory and found one I could NOT find on my lists ( Read more... )

Eric Flint wrote very eloquently about one of the real issues with the Hugo on his blog. The whole thing is interesting, but I think he has a very valid point about how science fiction/fantasy gets consumed. Casual-to-moderately-serious fans don't read nearly as much short fiction as we did, say, back when the Hugos were first developed/conceived ( Read more... )

This weekend, the only thing I had 'on' was a Loft "First Pages" at Maplewood Library at 2:00 pm on Saturday. I was meant to be facilitating "Novel Writing for Teens." At last count, they had seven students signed up ( Read more... )