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It’s not just because she is a close friend of mine. I swear. Lady is a whiz bang writer and editor, gonna be super famous vry soon, and a kind and thoughtful teacher.

She’s teaching a speculative fiction writing class at Field’s End, and if you’ve been dipping your toes into ( Read more... )

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Dang, I really love this book.

“No one has ever written truly immortal poetry about how good their dog looks in knitted garments.”

Amen, brother.

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So, the awesome Eden Robins (co-editor of Brain Harvest) has a story, “The Empire Builder” in Fantasy Magazine’s final three flash-fiction Halloween stories. Readers get to pick their favorite, and I think you’d really love her piece. You can go read it and vote here.

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Come join me at this show.  It’ll be good stuff, pinky swear.

Blackbird Orchestra, your next new favorite band, will be performing with Portland’s own  The Red King. Also on hand will be Nathaniel Johnstone (of Abney Park), Finn Von Claret, and other local Seattle artists.


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1. Thank you to all who read and voted in the Fantasy Magazine Micro-Fiction contest. My short piece, “The Ghost of Henry’s Past” won second place. There’s going to be a podcast of it sometime in the future, courtsey of PodCastle. Nice!
2. I have succumbed to being 36, ( Read more... )

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1. Off to the Friends of the Seattle Public Library book sale (it’s 1/2 off day on already cheap used books. JOY) and then to my crit group filled with smarty-pants.

2. Brain Harvest has its newest story up, a crawly piece by the uber-talented Jeremy Shipp.

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A whole bunch of pimpage and link salad for your Friday:

-My makeover. My genius husband has done a refresh of my site’s look and I couldn’t be more pleased with it. See, I threw up this site before he and I formed 4emphasis. I’m a good developer (a much better marketer, ( Read more... )

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1. Your new favorite band, Blackbird Orchestra, is playing a show this Friday at the ‘Vouz. You really should come. It’s cheap, they are really awesome, and my husband’s BFF is the lead (plus, he’s hot and single*):


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1. Blackbird Orchestra played their first show last night at the Comet Tavern, and I have to tell you, even if the lead singer/guitarist/lyricist wasn’t one of my closest pals, I’d still recommend them. However, I find it near impossible to describe their sound…it’s like ( Read more... )