It's cold and rainy here today, but that's good, because ...
It's cold and rainy here today, but that's good, because we still need the rain. It would help the second summer of firey death we're probably going to have to be able to start it with all the lakes and rivers at capacity. I'm working on getting a stiff neck from sleeping weird, but I'm hoping going to aerobics class will take care of that.
I'm linking to this again because I can: I was interviewed at the Terrible Minds blog, where I talk about the time I almost got eaten by a tornado.
Other good things to read:
An article by N.K. Jemisin, on being a black woman writing genre: Dreaming Awake
Dreaming is impossible without myths. If we don't have enough myths of our own, we'll latch onto those of others — even if those myths make us believe terrible or false things about ourselves. Tolkien understood this, I think because it's human nature. Call it the superego, call it common sense, call it pragmatism, call it learned helplessness, but the mind craves boundaries. Depending on the myths we believe in, those boundaries can be magnificently vast, or crushingly tight.
Kameron Hurley, on Because unless you get hit by a bus, life goes on
We just keep hearing the same mantra. "Just do good. Work hard. You'll get everything you want." When really, what they mean is DEAR GOD KEEP GOING OR YOU WILL GET EATEN BY SCAVENGERS.
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's fundraiser auction, which helps fans of color/non-white fans attend SFF conventions. Bidding in its annual fundraising auction starts Saturday, February 11, 2012 and ends Sunday, February 25, 2012. There are tons of great items up for auction tomorrow. There are tons of signed books, jewelry, homemade cookies, etc.
My auction for signed trade paperback copies of The Cloud Roads and The Serpent Sea is here. Remember, bidding doesn't start until tomorrow, Saturday, February 11th.
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If you're on Twitter (I'm @marthawells1) Night Shade Books is giving a free book to a Bay Area public library for every ten followers they get. They're @NightShadeBooks.
I'm linking to this again because I can: I was interviewed at the Terrible Minds blog, where I talk about the time I almost got eaten by a tornado.
Other good things to read:
An article by N.K. Jemisin, on being a black woman writing genre: Dreaming Awake
Dreaming is impossible without myths. If we don't have enough myths of our own, we'll latch onto those of others — even if those myths make us believe terrible or false things about ourselves. Tolkien understood this, I think because it's human nature. Call it the superego, call it common sense, call it pragmatism, call it learned helplessness, but the mind craves boundaries. Depending on the myths we believe in, those boundaries can be magnificently vast, or crushingly tight.
Kameron Hurley, on Because unless you get hit by a bus, life goes on
We just keep hearing the same mantra. "Just do good. Work hard. You'll get everything you want." When really, what they mean is DEAR GOD KEEP GOING OR YOU WILL GET EATEN BY SCAVENGERS.
***
Tomorrow starts
con_or_bust
's fundraiser auction, which helps fans of color/non-white fans attend SFF conventions. Bidding in its annual fundraising auction starts Saturday, February 11, 2012 and ends Sunday, February 25, 2012. There are tons of great items up for auction tomorrow. There are tons of signed books, jewelry, homemade cookies, etc.My auction for signed trade paperback copies of The Cloud Roads and The Serpent Sea is here. Remember, bidding doesn't start until tomorrow, Saturday, February 11th.
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If you're on Twitter (I'm @marthawells1) Night Shade Books is giving a free book to a Bay Area public library for every ten followers they get. They're @NightShadeBooks.
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