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March 15, 2018
Book Talk: Failure to Communicate
CW: Ablism (called out), abuse Failure to Communicate is a not-quite-first-contact SF story featuring a bisexual autistic protagonist. It is utterly amazing and wonderful and I highly recommend it. With a bit of caution if anti-autism ablism is a difficult subject for you to read because the book spends a lot of time calling it […]
March 9, 2018
This Week on Patreon (Week 10)
My Patreon tends to be a fairly quiet place, but I wanted to share the posts that go up every week. In this case, I’m counting weeks from Saturday to Friday so anyone who wants to explore things during the weekend can do so. While most of my posts are locked to patrons, a lot […]
March 5, 2018
Spring Sale!
I know, I know. It’s not quite spring in the Western hemisphere just yet and it’s going on autumn in the Eastern hemisphere, but bear with me. I celebrate my birthday (well, birth year and YAY! Happy birthday, me!) on March 20th and that’s the spring equinox! It totally counts as a spring sale, right? Anyway! Semantics […]
March 4, 2018
Book Talk: Recovery
Disclaimer: Amy is a dear friend. I did not receive this book for review and have done my best to account for bias. Recovery is the third book in Amy’s Reawakening series. While it can be read on its own, I recommend reading the books in order to get the best understanding of the plot […]
March 2, 2018
March 2018 Goals
I Want to Read: The Bone Doll’s Twin by Lynn Flewelling Shadowsong by S. Jae-Jones Flesh and Fire by Laura Anne Gilman I Want to Write: 5,000 words of DemiPrincess2 Finish RibbonDancer 1,000 words of Patreon short story for March 5 poems for the next fairytale retelling project This should be doable, right? I mean, […]
March 1, 2018
February 2018 Round-up
Goals News Patreon Posts marked with an * are publicly available at this time. Audio: Rambling about Marieke Nijkamp’s Before I Let Go In Stillness: The Perception of Asexuality in Seanan McGuire’s “Every Heart a Doorway” * Book Talk: Recovery by Amy Rae Durreson Audio: Small Stakes in SFF Let’s talk… Fairytale Verses (cover) previews! Lynn […]
February 28, 2018
Goal Review February 2018
I Want to Read: Welcome to Bordertown by Various Authors The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson On the Edge of Gone by Corinne Duyvis (reread) Stranger by Sherwood Smith and Rachel Manija Brown (reread) I Want to Write: I juuuuuuuust want to finish this booooooook and rewrite the ending that is aaaaaaaaaall universe. T_T […]
February 7, 2018
Book Talk: Beneath the Sugar Sky
A friend of mine sent me their ARC copy of Beneath the Sugar Sky because I’d expressed an interest in reading it. My interest largely stems from the promise that we’d get to see a little more of Nancy and the Halls of the Dead, but the book would have caught my interest anyway. It […]
February 4, 2018
Ace Recs: 4 of My Favourite Books with Asexual Characters
As is undoubtedly no surprise to anyone who’s heard of me, I really really love giving recommendations for books featuring asexual characters. As a reader and writer on the asexual spectrum, this is a topic near and dear to my heart. I’ve seen plenty of recommendations lists that are about asexual characters or that include asexual […]
February 2, 2018
February 2018 Goals
I Want to Read: Welcome to Bordertown by Various Authors The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson On the Edge of Gone by Corinne Duyvis (reread) Stranger by Sherwood Smith and Rachel Manija Brown (reread) I Want to Write: I juuuuuuuust want to finish this booooooook and rewrite the ending that is aaaaaaaaaall universe. T_T […]
