I mean, not entirely. You can see that I’ve brought many of the old posts with me from the old website, though I did clean those out, since there was a lot of old news and vague, unfocused rambling from the days when it was just a blog and not… Continue reading
Carmen Fox REPRESENTATION MATTERS – Fiction without boundaries I’m white, have no major disability to speak of, I don’t belong to any religion, and I’m as straight as a ruler. What do I know about diversity, right? I have never been stopped for driving while being black, haven’t had the… Continue reading
Representation matters. I’m sure you’ve heard that before, reader, whether the statement is personally meaningful to you or not. If it is, please take this as an expression of solidarity. If it is not, please take this as a window into someone else’s reality. This is going to be the… Continue reading
Somehow, it has felt like a very long year, and that has been borne out by my reading log. I exceeded my reading goals by quite a bit this year and unearthed some real gems. Edmund Persuader What’s it about? A younger son’s quest to find his place in the… Continue reading
It’s that time again, dear readers! You should all be expecting it, by now, as it is tradition. And for The Siren, the traditional hat is back. This time, it’s a Harris tweed construction, souvenir of my recent sojourn in London (of which there shall soon be a full recounting and further… Continue reading
As has become tradition, a dorky, self-congratulatory photopalooza! No hat this time, though. So, first I was like, “Oh, yes, I wrote this book…” And then I was like “I am made of snazz…” And then I just couldn’t hold it in any longer…
I spent a lot of years complaining that the books I wanted to read did not exist. And amazingly, I then proceeded to spend years writing other books. That’s not to say that the books I’ve written aren’t books I would want to read, or that the stories they tell weren’t desperate… Continue reading
Well? Are you ready? Are you sitting down? Because this is a fantastic cover for a fantastic book. Titan Magic: Body and Soul follows Lamm’s 2011 masterpiece, Titan Magic, which I reviewed a while ago. And Lamm has outdone herself. Trust me, I know – I had the honor of prereading… Continue reading
Yeah, so I actually missed the last day of the blog hop. Things came up, and I had everyone else’s posts scheduled, but never got around to mine. This is my remembrance. It’s been nearly two years ago that Grandpa passed. That was the worst time of my life. I… Continue reading
Cross-posted to Always 1895 Greetings, readers. That little short story I mentioned previously is now out in digital format. It’s a light little puzzle written by myself and my grandmother, based on the games we used to play when I was a very small child. (Most of our games involved… Continue reading
