The latest issue of the Fiction River anthology series, Hex in the City, includes the short story “Fox and Hound” by BVC’s Leah Cutter. For the next week, Cutter’s story is the featured podcast on the WMG Publishing web site. … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: January 2014
The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers. — King Henry VI, Part II, Act IV, Scene II Everyone knows that line from Shakespeare. What they forget is that it’s said by one of a group of conspirators … Continue reading
WWW Wednesday. This meme is from shouldbereading. To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions… • What are you currently reading? • What did you recently finish reading? • What do you think you’ll read next? … Continue reading
After writing about the question of death in fantasy last time I was here, I started thinking about deaths in my own work. Like who I’ve killed off and why. My first full-length fantasy was The Stone War, in which … Continue reading
Kindred Rites Night Calls Book 2 by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel “…we are all Death’s pupils, we practitioners—students of the great healer.” When magic broke free in my blood, I chose to follow our ancient family path and become a practitioner. … Continue reading
Everybody’s been jumping the gun on this one–calling the Western, begins on January 1st year 2014 “The Year of the Horse,” when in fact the Chinese Lunar New Year doesn’t begin until January 31st. Horse people are terribly excited, more … Continue reading
At 4:31 AM, January 17, 1994, a previously unknown blind thrust fault under the San Fernando Valley near the town of Northridge ruptured. About twenty seconds later, much of western and northwestern Los Angeles suburbia lay in ruins. Even in … Continue reading
This post was originally published at the author’s blog Hahvi.net. Last spring we made our first visit to Japan, arriving in Fukuoka at the height of cherry blossom season. It was a terrific trip, and my husband and daughter were … Continue reading
Those commenting on my initial post in this series brought up another fascinating topic: How do people who don’t legally exist in our world get the documents they need to pass as human? John C. Bunnell wrote: An issue that … Continue reading
I turned to KIM from Jennifer Crusie’s BET ME. This story is a delicious example of what I call “kneading”–when the author takes a handful of strong elements and folds them over onto one another and squishes the hell out of them, over and over, until something cracks and someone loses control and lovely big fat scenes blow up in everyone’s faces.
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