Totally gorgeous day today. I went to deposit a little but welcome check in the bank, curtesy of the latest edition of Mythic Delirium (all hail Mike Allen), and stopped by a shop that caught my eye.

It's a new consignment store here in Westerly. Just 4 weeks old, called "Time After Time." It's in that little strip mall with the Dollar Store.

But the ( Read more... )

...Apparently there is some manner of stomach flu raging around, and since it's not my turn yet, I was called in to replace the girl who called in sick. It was a slow, sweet, gray (GLOOMBUCKET DOOMFLOWER) day at the Aquarium, and I rather enjoyed myself, arriving late, heroically, virtuously, and leaving early (smugly).

In 13 minutes I have a ( Read more... )

Originally posted by ellen_kushner at Help get WITCHES on the air!

Again this year, we are offering "The Witches of Lublin"* free to radio stations as a holiday special for Passover in April (or International Women's Month for March)!  And we need your help to get us on the air.

The Witches of Lublin is a feminist-shtetl-magic-realist musical audio drama written ( Read more... )

Ellen and Delia's living room glows dull gold in the lamplight, and all the colors are jewels, from the book spines to the curtains to the dark gleam of the piano.

We sat on that couch, where Theodora Goss (now dubbed "Swan Princess," with a whole story growing up around that name and setting little fires to my brain) is about to fall asleep, and ( Read more... )

As a YouTube debut, it could have been far more embarrassing ( Read more... )

Dear New York ( Read more... )

1.) KidsRead Earthsea ( Read more... )

In approximately 43 minutes from the time I start this entry, I will leave this house on Riverside and make my way to the Center for Fiction where, ahem, I will be addressing 50-80 7th and 8th grade students, from an all girls charter school for women leaders, about Ursula K. Le Guin's Wizard of Earthsea.Right up until Sunday night, I was terrified ( Read more... )

Imagine that it is your first time ever in New York City. Ever. (Except that one time when you were nine and you drove through the Bronx ( Read more... )

I am here. In New York City. On Riverside ( Read more... )