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June 15, 2021
Aaaand I wrote another thing:
Your Life As It Didn’t Happen: Moving From Autobiography To Fantasy
as featured in Sci Fi Bulletin —
June 13, 2021
Reimagining Myths
I wrote a guest piece for SF Book — Reimagining Myths and Legends: Adapting Older Stories to a Modern Context
https://sfbook.com/reimagining-myths-and-legends-adapting-older-stories-to-a-modern-context.htm
June 11, 2021
June 10, 2021
Interview With The Lighthousepire
I’ll be talking about Bleeding Hearts with Lighthouse Bookshop today at 7:30 PM Edinburgh time on Instagram Live. We’ll be chatting about queer vampires, the 90s goth scene, and more!
https://www.instagram.com/lighthousebks
EDITED TO ADD: The video is now up on IGTV for anyone who missed it:
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‘TIS PUBLICATION DAY!!!
My second novel, Bleeding Hearts, is out today!
June 7, 2021
They’re Here!
MY AUTHOR COPIES HAVE ARRIVED!
And here it is on the bookshelf:
June 5, 2021
Brave New Words
As part of the Cymera Festival’s Brave New Words program, I’ll be doing a five minute reading from Bleeding Hearts at the beginning of this talk today. I’m pretty stoked to be the opening act for Andrea Stewart and Tasha Suri!
June 3, 2021
It’s Almost Time!
My book BLEEDING HEARTS, the sequel to LOVE BITES, will be published in just one week, on 10 June! Queer vampires and witches in love!
To be together, Angela and Chloe have had to overcome almost impossible odds. Will the divide between the living and the dead be too wide for them to cross?
June 1, 2021
Favorite Books — May 2021
This month had a clear favorite, one I probably should have read years ago, since I’ve been a fan of the author since childhood.
KING HEREAFTER, by Dorothy Dunnett
In the wild, half-pagan country of eleventh-century Scotland lives an ungainly young earl with a lowering brow and a taste for intrigue. He calls himself Thorfinn, but his baptismal name is Macbeth. The book depicts Macbeth’s transformation from an angry boy who refuses to accept his meager share of the Orkney Islands to a suavely accomplished warrior who seizes an empire with the help of a wife as shrewd and valiant as himself.
Dorothy Dunnett is said to have considered this book to be her masterpiece, and it’s not hard to see why. It’s not an easy read by any means – sometimes it seems that half the book exists in the things that remain unsaid or undescribed. But it is a book that rewards careful reading. It’s based on meticulous research that never feels like an academic project, but instead a story with an epic sweep and characters that will stick in your memory.
Other books I was fond of this month included SARABAND by Elliot Bliss, THE SHAKESPEARE REQUIREMENT by Julie Schumacher, TRAVEL LIGHT by Naomi Mitchison, CALIBAN’S WAR by James S. A. Corey, and NINTH HOUSE by Leigh Bardugo.
May 22, 2021
Also, almost none publish papers in peer-reviewed mad journals
Most so-called “Mad Scientists” are really just Mad Engineers. You very seldom see them test any Mad Hypotheses.
Also, among the actual Mad Scientists, why are some sciences more Mad than others? Plenty of Mad Biologists, very few Mad Geologists. A smattering of Mad Psychologists, no Mad Sociologists I can think of.
Is Mad Economist a tautology?
