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More news from the Border

The new Bordertown book (discussed in my last post) contains a mix of writers old and new. Half of them (like co-editor Ellen Kushner) are writers who first created the series with me, back in our wayward youth -- while...

News from Bordertown

Here is the cover art for the new Bordertown anthology, a fat collection of brand new Bordertown stories to be published by Random House in May, 2011. (Click on the art to see a larger version.) The cover painting is...

Video Enchantment

The video above, which is a trailer for M. Rickert's new book (Holiday, from Golden Gryphon Press), was created by my friend Thomas Canty. It's a beautiful, mythic, and haunting little film. American fantasy readers will know Tom as an...

Ummm, Shakespeare. . . .

Yesterday's photo of Tilly reminded me of this picture taken one year ago in the very same spot. She claimed this cubby-hole under the stairs as her Special Place when she was just a pup; and she now has a...

Poor Tilly . . .

She's hurt her foot and has to restrict herself to short, gentle walks for a couple of weeks. No woods wandering or ocean romps! Poor pumpkin.

Tune for a Monday morning

Today's tune (after all the discussion about "rejection" in my previous post) is "Daisy, There Are People in this World Who Don't Think Like You Do," from the Scottish singer/songwriter Karine Polwart. It's a gentle cautionary tale...and yet I admit...

Dealing with Rejection

My friend and neighbor Rima Staines has a thought-provoking post up on her blog right now (the Nov. 2nd entry) about the rewards and perils of creating artwork on commission. In short, she created this extraordinarily beautiful Rootpond Clock on...

Celebrating the Dead

Emiliano Lake-Herrera Happy Day of the Dead, everyone - which, after years of living close to the Mexico border (when I was in Tucson), is now one of my favorite holidays of the year. I value it not only as...

Happy Hallowe'en!

Bunny Girls prepare for Trick-or-Treating

Weekend reading:

Above: A vintage poster originally published by the Butterick Publishing Co. Three reading recommendations for you today: 1. Amal El-Mohtar's fine, provocative article on Steampunk fiction: "Towards a Steampunk Without Steam" (over on Tor.com). Amal is the author of The...