Lilith Saintcrow's Blog, page 28

Dilly of a Month

The last cold snap has arrived, and it’s relatively mild. I needn’t have worried about that early-blooming lilac, though I’m sure if I hadn’t things ...

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Version of Wager

Woke up with Loggins & Messina playing in my head, and Boxnoggin startled a young squirrel or rabbit in the predawn grey. I say or ...

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Old Things New

I did my best to slither into my cave and pull a giant rock over the opening behind me all weekend; last week was weird ...

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Moss and Blossom

The weather’s been good for both moss and blossom, which doesn’t often happen ’round these parts. Of course, what with climate change it’ll get more ...

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Learning Anything

Woke up with P!nk’s True Love playing inside my head–probably a function of thinking about the Valentine series again, since I took yesterday to get ...

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Spring and a Hot Revision

I’m getting an avalanche of emails and messages from folks wanting me to talk about small and indie presses, more about self-pub, if it’s really ...

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Barriers in Self-Pub

Well, I ranted so hard yesterday my site temporarily crashed and my mentions are a mess. I regret nothing; it had to be said and ...

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We Gotta Talk About (Trad) Publishing

No, seriously, guys. We really, really need to talk about some of this. A fellow author forwarded this article to me this morning, and my ...

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Anticipated Sea Change

Early spring dandelions are a great source of food for early pollinators. I did not know this until recently, but it makes sense and pleases ...

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Barrel of Literary Carrots

The rains have moved back in, or at least the clouds. This pleases me. I was reading yesterday about theories that the sun is conscious ...

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