It seems that there is no end to busyness, but I thought I should update this journal as things do happen. Maybe in a year or so I'll be able to keep a more regular journal.

First off: 59 Beads has been reprinted in ISF #1 and is now free to download. There are some interesting reviews of the issue available through the site. I'm happy to see this ( Read more... )

aliettedb interviewed Fabio Fernandes and Djibril al-Ayad on their peerbackers project to raise money for the We See a Different Frontier sf anthology. Interview is here. Link to the project is here.

Jeff and Ann VanderMeer have launched a peerbackers project for a Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology. More details on that here.

The objectives of these two ( Read more... )

First a link:

In case you missed it here's: Alex Dally MacFarlane's, Eastercon: It was fun, but...

Also, if you haven't read Tori Turslow's Dear Western SFF: stop it with 'exotic' already, the link is in the post below this.

More thoughts from Eastercon:

I roomed with aliettedb during Eastercon and as usually happens during the moments when we do actually get ( Read more... )

What is exotic beauty? Part II: The case of the Asian Fetish

Tori Truslow on: Dear Western SFF: stop it with 'exotic' already

Kate Elliott on The Narrative of Women in fear and pain

I wanted to post these links first because they say things that I think are important.

I am so guilty of falling behind. But I simply have to share this link to the Shared Worlds Critters Map which includes the Uk-uk Pra. I just love the Pra and am so delighted I could share this entry.

Thanks to the amazing Jeff VanderMeer for thinking of me for this project and to the delightful Therese Goulding who collected all the critters. I ( Read more... )

It's been 13 days since I last posted. Time flies. The past two weeks have been hectic. But now, the house is more organized, the garden looks like a garden and my downstairs bookcase doesn't look like a tornado raced through it. In the end, a fairly organized home makes for a less chaotic head and the muse is listening to me instead of stamping ( Read more... )

The Solace That Gay Marriage Brings by Fil-Am author, Noel Alumit, is now up at The Huffington Post. Many thanks to Barbara Jane Reyes for posting this link on the Flips list.

I finished reading "The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque", and you were right. It is a fabulous novel. On the list of books I'd written, I forgot to include Ursula Le Guin's "The ( Read more... )