-
The end of an era
I just made my blog cross-post to dreamwidth rather than to livejournal. That's how it's going to go from here on out, so if you want to read my stuff, you can either go to www.marissalingen.com/blog/ or to mrissa.dreamwidth.org. The website with my own name on it is my "home presence" on the internet and the likeliest to be stable. I'm also on ( Read more... ) -
So here is what
It looks like people who cut their teeth on lj are pretty attached to this style of aggregator for their reading. So I'm going to look into getting my cross-posting set up here instead. Someone set up an rss feed here: http://marissalingen-feed.dreamwidth.org/ but as I intend ( Read more... ) -
Sooooo the livejournal thing
Like many of you, I do not intend to follow Russian law regarding what minors can and cannot read about, nor do I feel that having an "adult content" marking works for me as what I have is a fundamental disagreement about appropriateness rather than a willingness to acknowledge that I am being in some way inappropriate ( Read more... ) -
The dhole didn’t fit in the title
I have a new story out today at Daily Science Fiction: Vervain, Grasshopper, Sun. Like all of DSF’s offerings, it’s quite short, so it won’t take you long to go, read, and enjoy!
Originally published at Novel Gazing Redux
-
Books read, late March
Pat Cadigan, Patterns. Reread. One of the strange things about keeping a booklog is that you can discover that you had the urge to read the same book exactly eighteen years apart. In that time, these stories have gone from mildly dated to tales from another era. Unfortunately for my tastes, nobody seems to like each other very much in them-they’re ( Read more... ) -
“This is so topical!” and chasing trends
I have seen several people on Twitter trying to keep tabs on everything President Trump has done in a given week. This really, really highlights the problem with trying to chase trends and write to be topical: by the time your sharp, satirical story is available to the public-even if you self-publish on the spot with minimal revisions, the more so ( Read more... ) -
Star Scouts, by Mike Lawrence
Review copy provided by First Second Books.
Some kids’ books are really everybody books, but we call them kids’ books because they’re the first ones kids can read on their own. And other kids’ books lose some of their charm and appeal with exposure. This is the latter kind.
Star Scouts is the same plot as basically every scouting camp story: kid at ( Read more... ) -
Short stories I’ve liked: earliest 2017
As always, I make no pretense of having read everything-even everything in the magazines I’ve read some of-so this is not some kind of “top ranking” or “better than,” it’s just stuff I’ve read and liked. Feel free to recommend things you’ve read and liked in the comments.
The Compassion of the Pheasant Lord, Leena Likitalo (Lackington’s)
Her Hands ( Read more... ) -
This is the Aesir-alien flash you were looking for.
Or maybe you weren’t looking, but-you’ve found it anyway! The Hand of Loki is out today in New Myths. Go, read, enjoy!
Originally published at Novel Gazing Redux
-
Books read, early March
The vertigo is bad and I am reading a lot right now. I’m also bouncing off a lot of library books-more books than I read this fortnight. Yikes. That’s a lot of nope.
Megan Abbott, Die a Little. If you liked LA Confidential but were interested in a female viewpoint of the same noir setting and tropes, this is the book for you. It turns out that I ( Read more... )