This year I have been thinking a lot (and writing some) about invitation. And my final thought for the greater arc of Invitation is a phrase that has been crystalizing in my brain ( Read more... )

Dear Morlock Ambrosius,

I love you, I adore you, I worship you, I have wanted to jump your crooked bones from the MOMENT you first appeared on the PAGE, dang it, and why does Vocate Aloê get all the hot Makers in Laent anyway? Hi ( Read more... )

I haven't yet told you all about how much I adore Martha Wells' fiction yet, have I? Did I talk about her Raksura books? Or her Ile-Rien books ( Read more... )

"Break, break, break,
On thy cold grey stones, O Sea!
And I would that my heart could utter
The thoughts that arise in me..."- Tennyson ( Read more... )

Reading: Brusso, Cooney, & Graykin
Hale
Writing
Fri 7:00 PM
Duration: 01:15
Authors Charlene Brusso, C.S.E. Cooney, and Justine Graykin read selections from their works.

Alas that one of our stalwart trio is down with Cap'n Trips, which is apparently sweeping Boston like it did in alt-reality 1990 c/o Stephen King. Justine ( Read more... )

I am reading James Enge's Guile of Dragons and have felt a keen despair ( Read more... )

Okay, so I'm here in a private corral of the Westerly Public Library, where AT LAST I am going to listen to THIS COOL THING ( Read more... )

With ROBIN HOBB and MARTHA WELLS!!! Among other august personages.Why didn't I think of CHRESTOMANCI??? And PRYDAIN ( Read more... )

This is pretty much the only important thing I'll ever have to say ever ALL DAY LONG and I can't even tell you how happy this makes me because you wouldn't believe me ANYWAY!!!

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Congratulations, jamesengeAnd now, I will quietly keel over and let tremors of SPLENDIFEROUS YEE-HAW wrack me ( Read more... )

I finished jamesenge's The Wolf Age yesterday morning, after reading it as late into the night as I could without deranging my eyesight.

I wanted to glow all over this here blog right after the last page, but I was still processing, and THEN I remembered I already did a whole bunch of incandescing over the Enge Phenomena before I had even finished the ( Read more... )