Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of Japanese American Incarceration During World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference by Joanne Oppenheim (2006) I picked up Dear Miss Breed on a whim at a used bookshop because I love letters and I'm a librarian who loves reading about other librarians and their adventures. I … Continue reading Review: Dear Miss Breed
Review: Parable of the Sower
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler (1993) I've been meaning to read Parable of the Sower for about a decade — I'm ashamed to admit that I didn't know this book even existed until I heard it recommended multiple times across various panels at my first Balticon. Parable of the Sower is commonly recommended … Continue reading Review: Parable of the Sower
Publication: Poetry – “Shifting Sands”
Another of the poems I sold to Quatrain.Fish is out today! This one is dubbed "the shifting sands poem", and you can read it here! Don't forget, Quatrain.Fish closes permanently to submissions in less than two months! If you've got any poems that are four lines or less, send them in today!
Publication – New Poem Today!
My latest Quatrain.Fish poem was published today! You can read it here. PS: Yes, in the payment memo line, they wrote "beeeeees!" and I laughed really loudly. I appreciate our shared humor. ^_^
Publication – New Poem!
The fifth and final poem I sold to Quatrain.Fish is out! You can read it here. I wrote this poem as an expression of my frustration with continued intolerance and racial inequality in the US. Black lives matter. Love is love. I know there are many, many lists of charities out there working to advance … Continue reading Publication – New Poem!
Publication – A new poem!
The third poem I sold to Quatrain.Fish is out today! This is the one I wrote back in college, and I'm glad it's finally seeing the light of day. You can read it here!
So You Want to Kickstarter A Genre Fiction Anthology: More Stats and Qualitative Info You Should Know
This is a quick follow-up to my previous post about my analysis and findings regarding Kickstarter-funded multi-author anthologies. If you have questions, comments, or requests for additional data analysis, please let me know! Quick Methodology/Scope Summary Please see my previous post for the full methodology breakdown. I sampled all successfully funded Kickstarter multi-author anthology projects … Continue reading So You Want to Kickstarter A Genre Fiction Anthology: More Stats and Qualitative Info You Should Know
Coming soon: Even more poetry!
The wonderful folks at Quatrain.Fish have picked up three more of my poems, which means they're going to publish FIVE of them total!!! I am very excited and will of course share them as they are released. Of these three most recently sold poems:* I wrote one as an expression of my frustration with racial … Continue reading Coming soon: Even more poetry!
Review: Love is Love
Love is Love (by too many contributors to list here) = 5/5. I am bisexual. There. I've said it. I couldn't think of another way to start this book review that would do justice to the book itself and, more importantly, and pay tribute those who died in the attack on the Pulse night club … Continue reading Review: Love is Love
Review: The Book of Dust
La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman (Vol. 1 of The Book of Dust) = 5/5 La Belle Sauvage is the first book of the long-awaited Book of Dust and is set in a world where everybody's souls manifest as animals outside their bodies. No one's alone, because they always have their soul to talk to. … Continue reading Review: The Book of Dust