Claudia Gray's Blog, page 15

Where I went wrong (this time)

I don't know how many regular readers of this LJ are following the current online discussions about racism in scifi and fantasy. (If you aren't, magicnoire has a very good summary here.) I've been reading this with great interest, and sometimes sadness, at the recognition of how badly scifi and fantasy writers have often let down nonwhite readers, and how much pain this has caused, and how resistant some other people are to having this conversation.

What's worst, for me, is my own recognition

STARGAZER Contest #4 begins!

First of all, I loved reading the answers you gave to the question for Contest #3, namely, "What's the most romantic gift you can imagine receiving?" People named everything from jewelry of various kinds (go Lucas go!) to scrapbooks or keepsakes boxes of important moments in the relationship to special outings together to flowers, and lots of people named an engagement ring. The most unusual answer was "a dog" -- for the surprisingly logical reason that a dog would then bring even more love in

snowy day music

As you might already know, we've had quite a lot of snow in New York, and more is supposed to be on the way -- the sky has that gray, anticipatory look. I am perverse enough to like this, now that we've had a little break from the brutal cold that gripped the city all January. Something about snow brings out the cat in me: I could just sit and look out the window in a state of total zen reflectiveness for hours.

The day job doesn't really allow for this, though. So the next best thing is lis