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May 21, 2014
My WisCon 2014 Schedule
I’m attending WisCon this weekend! Here’s my panel schedule. The full schedule for WisCon and the Science Fiction Research Association Conference is here.
The Once and Future Badass: Historical Women Who Inspire, Challenge and Unsettle Us
Kate Bachus; Victoria Janssen; Madeleine E. Robins; Patty Templeton
Fri, 2:30–3:45 pm, Senate A
From “Badass Women in History RPF” as a Yuletide fandom to tumblrs like historicalheroines and the Reconstructionists project, fans have a hunger for (re)discovering...
May 9, 2014
Previews Catchup
While my blog was down, I had several novel previews go live.
Fresh Meat: Death Comes to the Village by Catherine Lloyd. A Regency-set historical mystery I enjoyed quite a bit.
Fresh Meat: Iron & Velvet by Alexis Hall, Paranormal lesbian noir with a terrific first-person voice.
First Look: Robin Constantine’s The Promise of Amazing, New Adult.
First Look: Alison DeLaine’s A Gentleman ’Til Midnight, a historical romance with a female ship’s captain.
May 6, 2014
New sale!
I’m happy to announce I’ve sold a short story, “The Aid Station,” to editor Kristina Wright for her military-themed anthology, For the Love of a Soldier. Look for it in November! It’s set in 1916, and features a British ambulance driver and an American soldier-turned-doctor.
April 21, 2014
Interlude
Sorry for the long break – I’ve had some hosting issues, which I am now resolving. I’ll be back online soon!
December 9, 2013
Latest Previews
More book previews!
Heavy Metal Hearts by Nico Rosso – a short novel featuring demons in a rock band.
Mounting Danger by Karis Walsh – lesbian romance, a mystery, and equestrain pursuits.
Wallflower by Heidi Belleau – boy geeks in love, and one of them is becoming a cross-dresser.
November 11, 2013
If Batman Was Two People
“You are being watched. The government has a secret system: a machine that spies on you every hour of every day. I know, because I built it. I designed the machine to detect acts of terror, but it sees everything. Violent crimes involving ordinary people; people like you. Crimes the government considered ‘irrelevant’. They wouldn’t act, so I decided I would. But I needed a partner, someone with the skills to intervene. Hunted by the authorities, we work in secret. You’ll never find us, but vi...
November 4, 2013
Linkgasm is Really Random
I’ve already posted most of these to Twitter, but I collected some of my recent favorites here, for future reference.
Gossamer Obsessions has a terrific post on To Have and To Hold by Patricia Gaffney.
This is a really great analysis at Salon – is this novel about war, or abuse? The twisted mind of Ender’s Game.
Abigail Nussbaum on 3 productions of “Much Ado About Nothing” – Branagh, Whedon, and Rourke.
The 1984 PBS version of “12 Years a Slave,” starring Avery Brooks. Also, a post on the new mov...
October 8, 2013
CapClave 2013
I will be at CapClave this weekend. You can find me at the following program items:
Saturday, 11 am, Rockville/Potomac
“1001 uses for an unpublished story”
Laura Anne Gilman, Larry Hodges, Victoria Janssen (moderator), Craig Alan Loewen, Alan Smale
Sometimes they sell, sometimes they don’t; what do you do with your unsold stories? Do you ever write anything you know can’t be sold? Do you mine the novel in your trunk?
Saturday, 4 pm, Salon B
“Doctor Who”
Kate Baker, Victoria Janssen (moderator), Kath...
September 23, 2013
I Posted Over There
For Heroes and Hearbreakers, I posted on Delicious Despair in Patricia Gaffney’s Forever and Ever.
Fresh Meat: Dancer, Daughter, Traitor, Spy by Elizabeth Kiem at The Criminal Element.
A Fatal Likeness by Lynn Shepherd, a historical mystery that takes some liberties with historical figures.
A Question of Honor by Charles Todd, latest in a series of WWI histori...
September 9, 2013
“The Kaiser and Belgium,” Stephen Phillips
The Kaiser and Belgium
He said: “Thou petty people, let me pass.
What canst thou do but bow to me and kneel?”
But sudden a dry land caught fire like grass,
And answer hurtled but from shell and steel.
He looked for silence, but a thunder came
Upon him, from Liège a leaden hail.
All Belgium flew up at his throat in flame
Till at her gates amazed his legions quail.
Take heed, for now on haunted ground they tread;
There bowed a mightier war lord to his fall:
Fear! lest that very green grass again...
