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I knew about some of May’s holidays…

But I missed International Men Can Wear Dresses Too day (May 15th). Bummer! However, with Tumblr, it’s never too late: posts tagged IMCWDT on Tumblr. And now I have to get to work or else.

Some name resources…

– National Geographic has put together a very cool interactive map of surnames across the US. I’d love to see one of these for other countries, honestly. – Baby Name Wizard’s Name Mapper – see where and when a name … Continue reading →

Back into the swing of things…

It’s been way too long since I last felt this fluttery panicky ugh they’re gonna hate it I know it/woo they’re gonna love it! and ME! and woo! and and and! sensation. In other news, I just submitted the first … Continue reading →

And The Winners Are…

According to Random.org’s handy-dandy list randomizer, The winner of Model Men is… Gigi! The same randomizer tells me that the winner of Skater Boys is… Trix! Thank you to everyone who entered, and to everyone who stopped by to read. … Continue reading →

And now for a much lighter post!

I have three prizes up for grabs (one prize = one winner, for a total of three winners). One is a copy of the Skater Boys anthology, edited by Neil Plakcy and featuring my story Totally Choice; one is a … Continue reading →

No Thief Like Fear

Today, I’m participating in the Hop Against Homophobia. A few housekeeping things before we get started: 1) This is a very long post, so I’ve broken it into two parts. This is the Serious Stuff part; the following post is … Continue reading →

Reading, Writing, Reading About Writing, Writing About Reading…

About two weeks ago, I sought out a blog I had seen mentioned in passing somewhere else. On this blog was a post that stated that getting kids to read was basically a useless goal and besides basically everything published … Continue reading →

Happy May Day!

Happy Beltane, too. In less smirk-inducing news, May marks two anniversaries: Dreamspinner Press’s 5th, and my 2nd! I’m not planning on doing anything particularly exciting to mark mine, but Dreamspinner is having quite the party — every week this month, … Continue reading →

I keep meaning to mention this…

I’m participating in the first-ever Hop Against Homophobia. In addition to me, there are 214 other authors, publishers, and reviewers signed up for the bloghop. If you remember web-rings from the early days of the internet*, a bloghop is essentially … Continue reading →

A new-to-me-review from Literary Nymphs (and a confession)

While I was looking to see what searching for “Connor Wright” turns up these days, I decided I’d see what the image-search results were. On the second page in the second row was a picture of the cover for Tobias’s … Continue reading →