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We’re getting close to more Damien Stark, and I’m so excited!

You can pre-order LOST WITH Me here:

I’m very pleased at long last to announce the release of Many Are the Dead, an all new never before published Raven’s Shadow novella. 

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“The Faith requires all we have.”

New York Times bestselling author Anthony Ryan returns to the Raven’s Shadow world in this prequel...

My husband Bill, my second husband—the good one—who is currently recovering (successfully) from back surgery, has often said the following:  “With you there are no short stories—only long stories.”  And that’s the case today, so buckle up, my friends, you’re in for a ride.

In the late seventies a...

Lucie Brock-Broido and Henri Cole

Recently, I visited New York City to attend a tribute for Lucie Brock-Broido, a poet who, like many of the finest, died too young. So I reread Lucie’s last book, Still, Illusion, which was her best. One of the functions of poetry, and of the poet, is to heal us f...

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As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.

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When someone says, as many have, “Happiness isn’t in the Bible,” it’s not even slightly true. Even in versions that don’t frequently use the words happy and happiness, the concept is conspicuously present, not only in its many synonyms (see here and here), but in words such as contentment, peace...

In in! ❤ https://t.co/p1wi9v5m3Q

— Mindy Kaling (@mindykaling) October 20, 2018

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While the Nobel Prizes are no doubt a splendid thing, the Ig Nobels are far more fun. Ig Nobel prizes have been awarded for discovering that every language has a word for “huh?” (Literature, 2015) and for comparing the discomfort of looking at an ugly painting with the discomfort of...

Finch. This tattoo and the meaning behind it are everything.

I’m thrilled to share that Fighting the Fire is a hypable.com Top Romance Pick! And check out the amazing company Sean and Daniela are keeping! Have you had a chance to preorder your copy yet? Here’s everything you need to know:

The more they fight, th...

Work is central to both self-respect and earning a living. Yet what we have seen in the United States is the disappearance of the jobs that used to provide decent wages for America’s working class. For those lacking a college degree or technical training in a high-demand field, earnings have stag...

AWOOGA, AWOOGA, it’s time, I guess, for another Friday news purge? I don’t usually do newsy stuff on Fridays, but I got news, and the means to share it, so here we are. In November I intend to rock up with a trebuchet blast of writing advice and inspirado, so look out for that during NaNoWriMo.

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The Verge obtains a licensing fee schedule for Google mobile in Europe, The US Director of National Intelligence has seen no evidence of a Chinese hardware hack, and former deputy Pm Nick Klegg joins Facebook’s staff.

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Hi, everyone! It has been A Week, to say the least, and I’m feeling physically flattened at the moment…but it’s less than three weeks until The Girl with the Dragon Heart comes out in the US and Canada! And look what showed up at my house the other day, courtesy of my wonderful North American edi...

To end the week, here's one last passage from "Poetry and Science: A View from the Divide" by Alison Hawthorne Deming, discussing the ways we can bridge the gap between the two disciplines.

Deming writes:

"For both science and poetry the challenges lie in taking on the complexity of the most...

Just a quick review. Once again, I’m covering this one in Lightspeed and will have a deeper analysis of the movie and its place in the genre of “Historical Dramas about NASA.”  But I know a bunch of you probably interested in it so I wanted to say something.

I liked it, I’m glad I saw it, but I fe...

The Lord’s Prayer isn’t mainly about us getting what we need, but about God getting what he deserves: the honor due his name.

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And I hate packing, so if a terrible catastrophe is imminent, of course I’d rather move the planet itself rather than trying to decide what would fit onto a spaceship ark.

James Davis Nicholl has a post on tor.com about that: (Semi)-plausible strategies for moving a whole damn planet.

You’re livin...

This week’s Free Stuff Fridays is sponsored by Crossway, who also sponsored the blog this week. They are giving away a brand-new book that I think will be of a lot of interest to you: The Ten Commandments: What They Mean, Why They Matter, and Why We Should Obey Them by Kevin DeYoung. There will...

JUNEAU, Alaska — Alaska Gov. Bill Walker dropped his re-election bid shortly after the sudden resignation of his lieutenant governor over what Walker described as an inappropriate overture toward a woman.

Walker’s announcement, made Friday at the Alaska Federation of Natives conference in Anchorag...

This is happening today!  Exquisite Corpse is the rather startling name of a game that was invented by the Surrealists in the 1920s.  It’s the creation of a story (or any other piece of art) by each creator following on from the next, with no overall arc in mind, just seeing where it goes.

And the...