Every once in a while, my hubbie gets a hankering for some orc. Not cooked, of course. The movie kind of orc. So I dig out our extended version of Lord of the Rings and let him glut his fill.
This time around, however, I found myself maddeningly distracted. Wasn’t by Sean Astin’s perpetual scowl or [...]
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Some articles are written for money. Some articles are written to get your name out there. Some are written out of obligation.
And there are some articles that you absolutely, must write.
For years, I’ve been a huge fan of The Agony Booth, a website that reviews bad movies. I never thought I would be funny enough [...]
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Over at Fantasy Magazine, there’s a very interesting interview of Carole McDonnell and Alaya Dawn Johnson, two fantasy authors who are both black and female. Seeing that I’m both, I found it quite liberating to hear two women like me talk about their work, Christianity and the changing state of speculative fiction to a more [...]
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Posted in Daniel, Mommy Blues on November 15, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Okay, think back. Way back. Remember back when they had the Fisher Price record players? Come on, if you’re a product of the 70s, of course you do.
It came with plastic records that you pop it on the turntable, wind up the crank, put the ‘needle’ on and out came music box nursery tunes like [...]
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We’re going back to the basics here. I wanted to get a feel for what standalone fantasy novels would be like, so I picked up Wheel of the Infinite by Martha Wells. When I came across this book, I like the picture of what looked like a black woman on the back (why she wasn’t [...]
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Got this off the Kaleidotrope blog:
“Sam Tomaino of SF Revu offers a quick overview of Kaleidotrope #3, as well as some nice words…”
I hopped on over and read this:
“The October 2007 issue of Kaleidotrope is another nice one with a fine mix of stories and poems. I liked all the stories in the issue.
The issue [...]
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