Meet the Wendiceratops, named for discoverer Wendy Sloboda: Unlike any other dinosaur, this creature’s skull is ringed with bone protrusions that curl inward toward the animal’s nose like gnarly crochet hooks. “They remind me a little bit of a weird sea anemone … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: August 2015
The past few weeks there’s been a second blog about horses around these parts. If you haven’t been reading Julianne Lee’s “I Was a Middle-Aged Barn Rat” series, you’re in for a treat. We’re up to installment 9 of 10, … Continue reading
Three Deverry Tales by Katharine Kerr The Bargain The western frontier, 301 A long long time ago, when Deverry men first sailed west to the province they called Elditiña but which we know today as Eldidd, there lived a … Continue reading
Style Sheets The Old Fashioned Way by Deborah J. Ross Nowadays, you can find all sorts of software to help you keep track of characters, places, names, even geneologies. I still do this the way I learned to when I was … Continue reading
Walking on Sunshine A Slacker Demons Novel by Jennifer Stevenson A rock starlet whose biological clock is ticking… An ancient sex demon under orders to make a goddess out of the starlet… A precocious Parisian teen with a bottomless bank … Continue reading
This has been my summer for trying new things. Well, honestly, it’s the summer I decided I had to get off my butt and get moving more. Generally I manage to lose some weight over the summer, but as I … Continue reading
Jo Walton received her Tiptree Award for My Real Children at a celebration at Borderlands Books last Sunday. It was a festive event, attended by a large number of Bay Area readers and writers, and included wonderful cake from BVC’s … Continue reading
I Was a Middle Aged Barn Rat, Part 9, “The Dream.” This is a ten part blog series about the year I decided to pursue my lifelong interest in horses, based on an article that appeared in Equus, March 2015. … Continue reading
Ursula K. Le Guin is now collecting more questions about writing for her blog series, Navigating the Ocean of Story. If you want to submit a question, use this form. Get your questions in soon. Session 1 of this series, … Continue reading
Laura Anne Gilman, of BVC and the world, got me involved in GISHWHES (the Greatest Internet Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen). This event/activity/madness was started by Misha Collins of Supernatural, and goes on for a week. You get … Continue reading