I was away on a blessedly internet- and cell-phone-free vacation when my novella, "Burning Girls" went live at tor.com ( Read more... )

I'm sure that everybody who might read this LJ already knows about the way the recent run of SFWA Bulletins has apparently been watching too much Mad Men and decided the gender mores of 1962 were totally the way to represent women in its pages and on its cover.  If not, do read E. Catherine Tobler's piece, and take a look at Jim Hines's round-up.   ( Read more... )

Why is it always around midnight, that's what I want to know.  Why can't gas start pouring into my apartment at a decent hour of the day ( Read more... )

So, I come home at 12:30 or thereabouts from working at circehelene's, and walk into my apartment.  Immediately upon opening the door I cannot help but notice an overpowering odor of gas.  Hmm.  I think, maybe my boyfriend, the strong and silent one, accidentally knocked the gas on.  I flick on the lights (I have since been informed that this was a bad move; ( Read more... )

Please file this in the drawer marked "Questions that answer themselves":

Why Are Boomers Getting STDs?, asks a NYT headline ( Read more... )

I'm going to be working up a story for this excellent anthology forthcoming from Crossed Genres and edited by Rose Fox and Daniel ( Read more... )

February 19, 6:30Steampunk is not just a genre: it's a fashion aesthetic. Join five writers in NYC's famous John Fluevog store as they discuss the place of clothes and shoes in their works and the fantasy genre as a whole ( Read more... )

It has been so long since I've had a reading, I wouldn't be surprised if my voice had been lost completely.  But fortunately, I have kept it in practice with lots of talking, so I'm sure the way of it will come back to me easily, on Tuesday, January 8th, when I will taking part in NYRSF's Reading Series at the SoHo Gallery for Digital Art.  I'll be ( Read more... )

The lovely L. Timmel Duchamp asked me to contribute to Aqueduct Press's end-of-year artistic round-up, The Joys of Reading, Viewing, and Listening, in which many of us reflect on the cultural highlights of the past year.

I mean to write up ten books/movies/plays (what we in the academic world call "texts")...but I got a little carried away, and hit ( Read more... )

I'm doing a deep conditioning treatment right now (I have a very exciting and glamorous life), so of course my fancy turns to thoughts of hair.

I have very, very curly hair.  For those of you who know from the general curly categorizations, it's 3B with some 3C thrown in and some 3A in the front.  But mostly 3B.  For the rest of humanity--i.e. ( Read more... )