The Word for World
is . . . “Forest.”
Fire in the Mountains
Where I was going to be, the weekend after this one: not there anymore, alas. Just random stuff pulling me elsewhere. This post is mostly for the dude I ran into in Boulder, on campus, the other day, whom I told I’d see him up there: Sorry, dude. Didn’t know I was lying. Anyway, I
Blue Butterfly Land
Ten or fifteen posts from Bluesky that made me grin. Or, “let me grin?” Whatever the case, grinning was going on. Because of these posts.
Talking Vampires
Had a couple hours between other stuff, got this together—well, collated/half-remembered/synthesized my various answers I kept giving to the question about vampire traits in The Buffalo Hunter Hunter: (also available through Hot Topics>talking about)
The Sixth Nik
Great time Tuesday night, with Daniel Kraus. We spent the afternoon talking books, and then, in front of a crowd, the evening too:
Touring through the UK
Was my first time there, thanks to Titan. And thanks to my hero publicist there, Kabriya Coghlan, for making it all run so, so well. Guess I’ve been back nearly two weeks now? Something like that. Seems like I’ve done some trip since then, too. Anyway, talking this one, now. And what posts/pics I can
Against Book Bans
a six pack of books here, that go toward pushing back against bans, banning, and the losers that do that banning.
Best Reads from Lately
ten or so articles, reviews, columns and the like I thought worth saving—well, that I enjoyed enough to pass along.
FSU PhD
Scrolling through my camera roll looking for a cool mouse I saw on a rack somewhere (the clicky kind, not the “eats all my cheese”-kind [related: I have no cheese]), having to get past all the UK shots, which I plan on doing a post about before too long, and . . . found this,
Close Encounters of the Spielberg Kind
Anybody remember Taken (2002), that limited series Spielberg produced? Or was associated with somehow, it’s all kind of blurry now. Really cool and quite terrifying show, anyway. Reason I’m thinking of it’s that, in Disclosure Day, the aliens visit people by taking on the form of animals—really sort of nerve-wracking animals at that: the fox*
Blue Butterfly Land
posting this from, as Dire Straits calls it, “London town”: Was thinking about doing some animal-specific version of these posts, so kept these a bit separate. Probably won’t, though. But . . . I might keep a little sub-section here sometimes?
Two Trophies, One Amazing Night
Stayed up all night in Edinburgh, Scotland to watch these two ceremonies. So, so honored for The Buffalo Hunter Hunter to have somehow won both a Bram Stoker Award and a Nebula Award. Did some light searching on a train, and it looks like maybe only one other novel’s ever won both? Cool. As for
Locus Award for Good Stab!
Maggie and Sara kill it as MCs, there’s so many good acceptance speeches, cool keynotes, and Connie Willis is, as always, hilarious: Here’s the trophy: Such an unexpected honor.