Book 22: Fierce Family Edited by Bart R. Leib, isbn: 9780615950235, Crossed Genres, 168 pages, $11.95

The Premise: (From the Goodreads page): Strong, united families are rarely portrayed in speculative fiction. They’re often dysfunctional, combative, self-destructive, or miserable, when they’re portrayed at all. This is especially true for non- ( Read more... )

Wait, TWO actual personal updates in a row? No reviews in between? Who am I ( Read more... )

So first things first: no post on Thursday night because I got back to my hotel around 4pm, laid down on the bed to stretch before going out to dinner, and of course fell asleep until midnight, at which point it made sense to just stay in bed because I had to be up early to head to the airport to fly home from Naperville.

The flight home was fine, ( Read more... )

I had a fantastic time at my first Readercon. Got to spend a good amount of time talking to mroctober and ellen_datlow, as well as finally meeting some of my Twitter #sffwrtcht friends and folks I've interviewed. Sometime tomorrow I'll be mentally prepared to do a longer post about the panels and such (and some other thoughts that flitted through my head on the long ( Read more... )