Review copy provided by Erewhon Books. This is the first book I've gotten to review from Erewhon, I believe the first book they're putting out at all. It's an interesting choice to set the tone for their

I'm very excited about a new project I'm involved with: the Decameron Project! Maya Chhabra, Lauren Schiller, and Jo Walton put this together, and it's an effort of many writers to have new fiction content

The other major question(s) my friend had about revision was: how do you know what needs to be done? And how do you know when you're done? Okay, so: what you're doing, in general, as a writer, is: you're

One of my friends has heard me mentioning that I'm revising various things, over the last year, and asked me to talk about my process a little more here. So I'm going to do that, probably in more than

John W. Baldwin, Paris, 1200. This is a very convenient title that will help me to find this book for reference on the shelf. It does just what it says on the tin: talks about Paris and what was going

Review copy provided by the author, who is a personal friend and represented by the same agent as me. One of the things I often talk about most enthusiastically in my blog series about long-established

One of the things I often think about advice is that it usually reflects the advice-giver's needs rather than being some kind of universal law. "Don't smack yourself in the face with a frying pan," okay,

Today it's been over three weeks since the three-day flooring project began. It will not end today. I hope it ends this week but who knows. I have learned to just...go with whatever is, to not rely on

James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time. I had not read this fairly famous set of essays, and now I have. It was horrifying and instructive, as of course you would expect it to be. I think that in some ways

Review copy provided by the author, who is a personal friend since we're repped by the same agent and all. Which is not to say that you should discount my squee, because: squeeee this is so much fun. I

This is the latest in a recurring series! For more about the series, please read the original post on Marta Randall, or subsequent posts on Dorothy Heydt, Barbara Hambly, Jane Yolen, Suzy McKee Charnas,

There's no particular reason why you have to make anything out of grief that's for anyone else's consumption. A lot of people don't; but then a lot of people do, Alfred Lord Tennyson and Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes, Mourning Diary. This is the scraps of observation, literally scraps, that Barthes scribbled down about his feelings after his mother died. I had been hoping for the sort of communal experience

Review copy provided by the author, who is also a personal friend. This is the latest installment in the Harwood Spellbook series of romantic fantasies, shorter than novel length but longer than short

Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House. This was a period of reading when I needed to spend a lot of time on the couch, so books I could dive into and not come up for air until I was done were very welcome, and this

While I was out of town at ConFusion and surrounding fun, I had a story come out in Beneath Ceaseless Skies! Every Tiny Tooth and Claw (Or: Letters from the First Month of the New Directorate) is available

Review copy provided by Tor Books. Okay, so here is what you need to know about whether this book will drive you up a tree: the princess is for no reason explained in the book called a princella instead.

Review copy provided by the publisher. If you've been following the new releases from the Rick Riordan Presents imprint of kids' fantasies, I think you'll be pleased with Rebecca Roanhorse's addition to

This is the latest in a recurring series! For more about the series, please read the original post on Marta Randall, or subsequent posts on Dorothy Heydt, Barbara Hambly, Jane Yolen, Suzy McKee Charnas,

This morning you can read my latest essay in Uncanny, Save Me a Seat on the Couch: Spoiler Culture, Inclusion, and Disability. It's about, among other things, not getting to see the new Star Wars movie