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Hello friends,
As some of you know, I have a handful of chronic health conditions. Over the last year, these health issues (mental and physical) have worsened, and as they did, they have become expensive in terms of money, time, and energy. The creative drive I once had has been eclipsed by the sheer mountain of Things I Have To Do To Function. Because of this, I have not been able to get much…
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Book Review: SING, UNBURIED, SING by Jesmyn Ward
Book Review: SING, UNBURIED, SING by Jesmyn Ward
Amazon | Goodreads
Notes on Diversity/Inclusion
Ah, this book is so wonderful. Sing, Unburied, Singhas such richness in it. While the plot follows one family, that family has deep wells and particularities in it, like all families. Ward shows just how specific southern Black culture is with Jojo’s family, but also how much of a monolith it isn’t. Jojo’s family contains within it many different…
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Book Review: STRANGE THE DREAMER by Laini Taylor
Book Review: STRANGE THE DREAMER by Laini Taylor
Amazon | Goodreads
Notes on Diversity/Inclusion:
Most people in the book, including the eponymous Strange, are an unspecified shade of fantasy brown. This has its pros and cons: there is at least some nominal representation for people of color here; Taylor has not chosen to populate her fantasy world with random White people. However, the representation may only be skin deep. It’s certainly…
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Book Review: THE BOOK OF JOAN by Lidia Yuknavitch
Book Review: THE BOOK OF JOAN by Lidia Yuknavitch
Amazon | Goodreads Notes on Diversity/Inclusion: The Book of Joan seems to have a very complicated relationship to marginalization and oppression, and it doesn’t seem to realize it. This is a book that is trying to say something about the nested issues of gender oppression and environmentalism, but because the story takes place on a space station, and because there are issues of access getting to…
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Book Review: THE BLACK TIDES OF HEAVEN by J.Y. Yang
Book Review: THE BLACK TIDES OF HEAVEN by J.Y. Yang
Goodreads | Amazon Notes on Diversity/Inclusion The inclusiveness of The Black Tides of Heaven was, honestly, a big draw for me. I’d heard about Yang’s approach to gender and gender fluidity as a piece of the worldbuilding before I knew much else about the novella, and that was one reason I picked it up.* The Black Tides of Heaven is populated with Asian characters with an inclusive and expansive…
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Book Review: THREE DARK CROWNS by Kendare Blake
Book Review: THREE DARK CROWNS by Kendare Blake
Amazon | Goodreads Notes on Diversity/Inclusion At least in my reading, this is not a very diverse or inclusive book. As far as I can recall, there are no queer characters. Fennbirn seems like a pretty white place. I’m sure class distinctions exist, but since the plot follows three would-be queens, we’re seeing Fennbirn through the eyes of the haves–doomed haves, bitter haves–but they are still…
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Book Review: SPIRITS ABROAD by Zen Cho
Book Review: SPIRITS ABROAD by Zen Cho
Amazon | Goodreads Notes on Diversity/Inclusion: This is #ownvoices short fiction–Malay speculative fiction by a Malay writer. The Malay rep is deep, both in terms of the content of the stories and the language of the stories themselves. There is a smattering of queer representation in some of the stories here, notably in “The Perseverance of Angela’s Past Life,” “The Mystery of the Suet Swain,”…
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Book Review: THE WALLS AROUND US by Nova Ren Suma
Book Review: THE WALLS AROUND US by Nova Ren Suma
Amazon | Goodreads Notes on Diversity/Inclusion: Not a lot here to speak of, honestly. The Walls Around Us is focused tightly on three characters–Amber, Ori, and Vee. Of the three, Ori does double duty representation. She is biracial, and she is poor. There was a moment in the book that made me suspect that Amber could be read as queer, but it’s not canonical. There appears to be no actual…
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#KrakenFriends2018: SERE FROM THE GREEN by Lauren Jankowski
#KrakenFriends2018 An interview with @lauren_jankowsk about her book #SereFromTheGreen! Pick it up for $.99!
Hi friends! Did you hear about the Kraken Collective Anniversary Sale? We’ve got 19 books on sale featuring awesome queer heroes, and each of them are only $.99! Not sure where to start with all these stories? Take the #KrakenFriends18 quiz, and see which queer hero you get! It is my distinct honor to feature two of the participating authors on my blog–Amy McNulty and Lauren Jankowski. Today,…
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#KrakenFriends2018: THE BALLAD OF THE BEANSTALK by Amy McNulty
#KrakenFriends18 An interview with @mcnultyamy about her book, THE BALLAD OF THE BEANSTALK! Get it now for $.99!
Hi friends! Did you hear about the Kraken Collective Anniversary Sale? We’ve got 19 books on sale featuring awesome queer heroes, and each of them are only $.99! Not sure where to start with all these stories? Take the #KrakenFriends18 quiz, and see which queer hero you get! It is my distinct honor to feature two of the participating authors on my blog–Amy McNulty and Lauren Jankowski. Today, we…
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Reading Goals
I am striving for a book a week this year. Or maybe 50 books total, because sometimes you read a really long book and it takes a little bit to chomp through. 50 books a year! For reference, that is twice as many books as I read last year.
Gonna start DNF’ing books that just don’t grab me for whatever reason within the first 20% of the book.
Gonna start reading books instead of defaulting to twitter on the bus.
Also striving to read 1 piece of short fiction per day. I just plain want to read more short fiction! There’s so much out there, and so much of it is excellent! The time is now.
Reviewing Goals
I’m shooting for 35 book reviews in 2017. Look, sometimes I read books with no intention of reviewing them. Sometimes I read books and I don’t even know where to begin reviewing them. 35 is a good, solid number to shoot for. Enough to keep me busy for sure.
Gonna try to also review/rec 35 pieces of short fiction this year.
And maybe branch out a little? Review some movies and games, too? Other types of narrative fiction, as the mood strikes?
Writing/Publishing Goals
I was really productive last year. Maybe too productive? It got in the way of reading. It also got in the way of taking any time off to like…relax. So this year, when I sat down to make a master schedule of All The Things for my subscribers, I was like……maybe publishing a short story a month and a novel is too much?
I think it might be.
So here are my goals for 2018:
Publish A Tale of Rebellion book 2, The Incoming Tide.
Put the finishing touches on A Tale of Rebellion book 3, The King and his Makers
Return to one of the (several) drawer novels I’ve got and start tinkering with it again.
I’ve got a very promising novella I think I’m a good enough writer to finally rework now. Maybe that one.
Write 4-6 new short stories. I’m trying to get better at short fiction, and the only way to do that is to A) read a lot of short fiction and B) write a lot of short fiction.
I want some of this to be queer fluff. Maybe Ariah-centered queer fluff. That will definitely be a stretch for me, but hey, I’m all about growth.
Keep subbing the short fiction that hasn’t found a home yet. One day they will find their homes!
Release the first 3 issues of Vulture Bones – I am honestly so incredibly psyched about this project my friends.
Become a Subscriber
A lot of this work will be exclusive to or initially available through the Digital Goodies subscriber package I’m running. You can sign up for this through any of the following platforms and receive (usually) weekly content:
Patreon | Paypal | Gumroad
Subscribers will get the following:
Early access to book reviews
Early access to short fiction reccommendations
Exclusive teaser chapters and excerpts from works in progress (like upcoming novels!)
Exclusive short and interactive fiction
Videos about the writing and publishing process
Quarterly book rec surveys where you can rec things for me to read/review
other stuff I haven’t even thought of yet
Here’s to 2018!
2018: Writing and Reading Goals Reading Goals I am striving for a book a week this year. Or maybe 50 books total, because sometimes you read a really long book and it takes a little bit to chomp through.
2017 Year in Review
WE DID IT, Y’ALL! WE MADE IT THROUGH 2017! This year fucking sucked, huh? It was a gross year. Just surviving this year means everyone gets a gold medal. Here you go: This here is my 2017 retrospective post. I like doing this to remember all the things I managed to do, even when it feels like I didn’t actually do much at all. Writing I was way more productive this year than I expected to be. I…
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Short Story Rec: "First National Forum on the Position of Minorities in Malaysia" by Zen Cho
#ShortFictionSaturday: a masterful and bittersweet story by Zen Cho
“First National Forum on the Position of Minorities in Malaysia” by Zen Cho was first published in Fantastique Unfettered, September 2011, and is included in her collection of short fiction, Spirits Abroad. Tell him I always save one piece of the cake for him. Just for him. Zen Cho’s “First National Forum on the Position of Minorities in Malaysia” is a remarkable work of short fiction. It’s a…
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Book Review: LABYRINTH LOST by Zoraida Cordova
#FridayReads: queer, diverse, magic in Brooklyn Brujas #1
This review was first published on the Sirens Conference blog. Amazon | Goodreads Labyrinth Lost is a quick, rich read. It is fast-paced and brimming with imagination. The book starts in Brooklyn, but quickly shifts to the netherworld of Los Lagos. In doing so, Córdova immerses the reader in the splendor and the weirdness of bruja magic. The story has an episodic, questing feel that is…
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Short Story Rec: "The Perseverance of Angela's Past Life" by Zen Cho
Short Story Rec: “The Perseverance of Angela’s Past Life” by Zen Cho
“The Perseverance of Angela’s Past Life” by Zen Cho is included in her collection of short fiction, Spirits Abroad. But she needed to have a surface that could catch on things. She needed to be capable of friction. This is not a perfect story, but it left me with an indelible image and metaphor of what it feels like to finally, finally come out to yourself and have it stick. And for that, it’s…
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Book Review: ALL THE BIRDS IN THE SKY by Charlie Jane Anders
Amazon | Goodreads All the Birds in the Sky is a love story. A story of redemption. A story of an ideological war for humanity’s soul. And a coming of age story of an AI. The story is a lot of things, but it’s never boring. Patricia Delfine is a witch. Laurence Armstead is a burgeoning engineering wunderkind obsessed with rockets. Both were outcasts in middle school, and as outcasts are like to…
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The Poet Returns Cover Reveal The Poet Returns will be released to subscribers of the Digital Goodies package on 12/20/2017. You can enroll in the Digital Goodies package through either Gumroad or Paypal--