In unrelated to cats news, my short story The Dragon and the Bond popped up on the web today. This is one of those stories that started with a single sentence and then just went on from there: certainly not planned out in the slightest. It's one of my favorite stories from last year, because, dragon ( Read more... )

First, thank you to whoever kindly paid to upgrade my Dreamwidth account for two months! It's much appreciated, even as it also served as a reminder that I haven't done that much blogging lately. So on that note...

The recent rather heated chatter about SFWA provided one unexpected benefit: I learned that someone named Robin Roberts had written ( Read more... )

Some time ago, Shimmer interviewed me regarding my story, "A Cellar of Terrible Things," which will be appearing in their upcoming issue 15. (Which not at all incidentally is available for preorder here and will be available for real order on Friday! So, upcoming soon!)

During the course of the interview, they made the mistake of asking me for ( Read more... )

Whether or not you celebrate the day, may you all have a warm and merry day, full of light. And cookies. Cookies are important. And, from me, in lieu of my usual silly holiday poem (because I zonked out on it this year) a free bit of story and magic.

( Dragons! )

It be my pleasure to announce to ye brave souls that the third issue of Fantastique Unfettered be available at many fine, fine outlets. It be deserving if a bit of your hard earned or plundered coin, seeing as it be filled with stories of the fabulous, poems of surpassing beauty, interviews with people that be pleasing to pirates, and a wee little ( Read more... )

So! Since I did the last episode late, I figured I'd throw my comments in about this one early! Warning for those reading this on tiny iPhone screens: comments are mildly spoilery for both the first AND the second book. The second book part isn't my fault: blame HBO for throwing it in there. And now, the comments!

( All spoilery again. )

Attacking a dragon. Or, well, actually saving it, but it rather looks like an attack.

When I was a kid, I desperately wanted to go to Oz ( Read more... )