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Patience, Part One
Like Aesop, I admire the tortoise type. Set a goal, slow and steady, finish what you start. These are the people that tend to “make it” in any given field, because if you just keep going you’ll eventually have to get somewhere, even if it isn’t exactly where you wanted to go when you started. …
Bunny
A short piece I wrote is up on (gulp) Karen Joy Fowler’s website. I’ve thought about the described moment many times over, and thought about writing it, but never put it down. It’s one of those feelings you’re introduced to in some youthful incident that, whenever you encounter that emotion again, there you are again in your …
Boys’ Club
There has been a lot of conversation lately about sexism in speculative fiction–no, not the buxom wenches still lingering on covers and the awful “sure I’ve got a rack but I can still kick your ass” characters (though both of those things are legitimately horrid), but real-life sexism towards real-life ladies: writers and editors and fans. I’m not going …
Rejected Author Bios for a Series of Children’s ESL Phonics Books
Mrs. Moore lives and writes in a series of cardboard boxes taped together to form a system of caves. She may or may not have a choice selection of college degrees, which may or may not have earned her a temporary job with the U.S. Census bureau and a bad credit score. She does not …
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Sometimes I Write
When I was eight an aunt gave me the Chronicles of Narnia in a box set. This particular aunt was no favorite of mine, and I kind of resented the gift. What, you gave me baby books? Ooh thank you, I’ll go read them all curled up with my blankie, let’s hope I don’t wet the bed. …
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