No quarter
At the California Quarter Design Concept Finalist Poll, you can vote online for one of the 20 finalists in the...
State of the union revisited
Lovely little one-and-a-half-minute video reworking of Bush's state-of-the-union address. (That's a 7MB QuickTime version; there are also a couple of...
Red Queen’s race
A little over six months ago, I noted that I had 17 books stacked next to my bed waiting to...
Annual poll
I just remembered that the annual Preditors & Editors Poll for best stuff published in all sorts of genre categories...
Hand-raising experiences
I see this behavior a lot at conventions and sometimes even at meetings at work. I used to do it...
First Evil journal
Suddenly the fictional-blog thing seems to be coming into vogue. If you've been watching this season of Buffy, you might...
Even more online fiction
Jay has posted the entirety of "Cletis and the Duct Tape Spider" on one page, in reading order, so you...
Review: Starlight 1
I liked PNH's Starlight 2 anthology a great deal when I first read it a couple years back, and picked...
Shake these bones
A couple months ago, I mentioned that Angels in Daring (by Cindy Kallet, Ellen Epstein, and Michael Cicone) was one...
No cannibal antho
Received notes from two authors of cannibal stories that I read recently, letting me know that they hadn't known other...
Fantasy Scrabble
When Nao and Stephen and I were hanging out the day after Christmas, over in Half Moon Bay, we...
Hey! I’m in a book!
As I was eating dinner, I just read Howard W's intro to "A Summer Place, On the Beach, Beyond the...