One of the shittiest things about growing up (and there are a great many shitty things about growing up) is the forfeiture of your magical inheritance. As a child, your […]
Meg Elison
NorWesCon 38: a Glorious Blur
Memory is the ghost of time trapped in meat and it doesn’t always work. It works even less when the meat is excited. First, an old friend. I was met […]
SoCal Book Tour
Traveling is both the privilege and the curse of a writer’s life. I spent the the end of March driving all over Southern California, some time in LA followed by […]
See me at NorWesCon!
If you’d like to see me at NorWesCon or get a signed copy of my book, this is my loose schedule for the weekend. I’m tied up most evenings with […]
Chocolate Wasteland
February is the cruellest month, breeding Roses for dead relationships, confusing Obligation for the real thing. Winter kept us coupled, disguising complacency in neglectful rhythm, faking A little affection with […]
Atlanta Burns: Like a house on fire
I get really excited about a book that gets me to read a genre I usually don’t like, and makes me love somebody in the process. I don’t usually like […]
Philip K. Dick Award Finalist
My debut novel, THE BOOK OF THE UNNAMED MIDWIFE, is on the shortlist for the 2014 Philip K. Dick Award. This is the coolest thing that has ever happened to […]
Fat Vampire: What the hell was that?
It’s been a long time since I’ve been fooled like this. Authors generally suck at concealing where they’re going. They telegraph their intentions through tropes and foreshadowing and I am […]
The Country Gentleman
There aren’t many choices when you’re a matronly 15 year old virgin who wants to be someone else. You can’t be the beautiful girl you’d literally kill to become. You’re […]
Dressing to suit your own personal fable
You wore your hair in braids last night and now it’s doing that rippling thing that helps it to catch the sun. Leave it down. You have that loose dress […]