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Gettin’ Interstitial with the BBC
As mentioned in a previous post, I did an interview with the lovely Jamillah Knowles of the BBC this past Sunday about the second volume of Interfictions, which I co-edited with Delia Sherman, and now it’s available as a podcast. Here’s a link to it, but, just so you know, it’s a conglomeration of subjects… Read more
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Love it or hate it?
The other night, pre-viral infection, I was in a bookstore and was stopped in my tracks by a book I’ve looked at too many times in too many similar covers: Wuthering Heights. It was face out and had a beautiful cover design, full of color, with a Tim Burton-esque rendering of Cathy on the front… Read more
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Running in the shadows
An article from the NYT on the rise of teenaged runaways over the past few years, as the economy has worsened. It’s sad and, for me, recognizable. One of the things I encountered every now and then when I was going around reading from my first novel, One for Sorrow, after its release a couple… Read more
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Outrage
Author Nicola Griffith has blogged a call to action, which you can find here, in regards to a woman dying in the hospital whose same sex partner and children were not allowed by law to see her or receive any updates on her condition. The hospital was later sued and the state awarded the hospital… Read more
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The Broken Teaglass
This past spring, I was passed a debut novel from an editor at Delacorte Press, asking if I’d read it. It’s called The Broken Teaglass, by Emily Arsenault. It’s an interesting novel, set in a dictionary company, with a mystery hidden in the files of word citations, buried there for others to find by a… Read more
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