Due to gerrymandering some time ago, probably two or three demographic shifts past (right now I'm blocks from Little Saigon, city within a city within a city), I live in a part of a city that is long and thin, tucked like a pencil between the bulk of LA County and Huntington Beach. I am bad at estimating distances, but it can't be more than half a ( Read more... )

Today's Decameron is a first chapter from Caroline Stevermer's forthcoming book--which I have been reading and enjoying very much. It comes out next week, woo!

Much eldercare stress that I can do nothing about makes me want to hide in fictional worlds. Luckily I am surrounded by good stuff as well as projects to sink into.

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Today's Decameron story is mine "Commando Bats" was written to exorcise my own stroke, but it's meant to be total fluff ( Read more... )

Today's Decameron is a sere, poignant long tale set in Biblical times, written by Alter S. Reiss, who among other things is an archaeologist.

Tomorrow will be a total change of pace, some fluff by me.

Speaking of fluff, enough people enjoyed that vid I linked to yesterday that I thought I'd offer my favorite stills of cats in boxes. Boxes and ( Read more... )

Today's Decameron story is by Rebecca Kuang, set in her very, very dark fantasy world using as a substrate some of east Asia's most bloody history of the last century. This is the (quite absorbing) prologue to the third book, coming out in November.

On the brighter end of the spectrum, in case you don't follow
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Today's Decameron piece is by an author who wrote a story in the style of Bocaccio ( Read more... )

 Copied over from asakiyume''s journal: this lovely, lovely novelette is now out!

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Today's Decameron is a scene from Pamela Dean's forthcoming book, Going North. Reading that makes me want to return to The Secret Country books. (Which I will do when this book appears ( Read more... )

Today's Decameron riffs on Antigone, though set in space. The unnamed narrator is probably Captain Creon, and instead of royal or clan affairs, there is a nod to cannibalism (nothing graphic ( Read more... )

Today I'm doing an AMA at r/fantasy. If you have time, come talk books, reccos . . .

Today's Decameron story is by Heather Rose Jones.

Yesterday finished a first draft of a book, now onward with the next!

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