Apparently this is not a weird belated April Fool's Day joke of some sort.  I wish it were.

A Thoroughly Non-Racist Book.  (Edited 9:31 p.m. to link to a cached version, because the internet does not forget.  Read the comment thread for some welcome catharsis.)

Marvin Kaye, editor of Weird Tales, proudly upholding the magazine's Lovecraft-era ( Read more... )

My poem "Wallpaper" has been nominated for a Rhysling Award.  I'm delighted--the more so as I hadn't realized it was eligible.  Thank you, whoever nominated me!

I had an excellent time at the Tempest party, and I think the guests enjoyed themselves as well.  My thanks to all who participated.  Also, yesterday, I found out that my poem "The Sisters," written for sovay, will appear in Mythic Delirium.  Altogether a wonderful day.

Courtesy of sovay: here's the table of contents for Rose Lemberg's The Moment of Change: An Anthology of Feminist Speculative Poetry.   It's a brilliant line-up, I'm excited to read it, and

*klang*jazzhands*MY POEM IS IN IT*jazzhands*klang*

When it comes out I'll be insufferable and run around conventions to find purchasers and sign the page with my poem ( Read more... )

I'm back from Farthing Party, a very good weekend indeed.  Today I'll have to spend some time settling all the stuff I let slide last week.  First, however:

My poem "Wallpaper" is up at Strange Horizons.

It all looks so different set up in type. 

Wooo!

So guys I wrote this poem:

Trenchcoat

It just went live at Strange Horizons.

^_^

Thanks, everybody who encouraged me to work on this poem when I posted it here, particularly sovay and negothick, and thanks to asakiyume for recommending me just now.

I wrote this almost two years ago, when I was feeling alienated and wanted to find a way to be witty about it.  I'm tempted ( Read more... )

The blog is in my real name, because now that IM A RITER, I want to have an online presence.  It'll be useful in all sorts of ways--and when I decide to print cards, I can put my blog on 'em.  Here it is.  Please excuse the big ugly caps across the top; I'll change the formatting as soon as I figure out how.  (I'm a dotorg!)  It's a lot like LJ, ( Read more... )