Yesterday was both Edward Gorey and Anaïs Nin's birthdays, and I feel bad for not having said so...yesterday ( Read more... )

You know what? I'm really fucking sick to death of trying to impress people - editors, reviewers, readers, et al. I've been trying since 1992 to impress people, most of whom I do not even know and never will know. And I'm done with it. It's been twenty-five years, and if I haven't managed it yet, it's never going to happen. Whatever this next novel ( Read more... )

Today is the 78th anniversary of Kristallnacht, and here in American we have elected our own little would-be Hitler. On November 9, 1989 the Berlin Wall came down, and here we are building walls. We learned nothing from history, and we have repeated it ( Read more... )

I've been awake since about 8:45 a.m., and I've been sitting here since about 9 a.m., and a lot of that time has been spent trying to think how to wrap this up. And knowing full well that nothing's ever wrapped up. Summations are never anything but cursory. So, I've been sitting here, and I've been procrastinating. I've even been trying to weasel ( Read more... )

1. I've been reading the reports coming out of Haiti. In a nation where so many buildings are not built to withstand strong earthquakes, a magnitude 7.0 is very bad. The earth moves, in some places more than in others.

2. I see that the Vatican does not approve of Avatar, and I'm wondering why this is even news. Did anyone think they would approve ( Read more... )

I'll lead off with the good news. Sonya Taaffe's (sovay) "The Depth Oracle," which I'm proud to say originally appeared in Sirenia Digest #8, has been chosen for Best New Romantic Fantasy. Also, my own story, "Pony," originally published in Sirenia Digest #2, has been selected for Horror: The Best of the Year. So, in its first full year of publication, ( Read more... )