At the end of Women’s History Month, I raise my glass to all the men who have been here, too. Where would we be without you? After all, we’re all needed here, eh? Women’s History Month isn’t about negating men: it’s about celebrating women. While the gentlemen who congregate here likely have no difficulty doing…
Category: inspiration
Meme: The Ten Books That Most Influenced Me
Via Patti Abbot’s blog (and a bunch of others) AKA a swift post as I rush through last minute things: Alice in Wonderland: the book of my life, the set me up for a lifetime of absurdity and nonsense — and wonder; Mary Poppins: ditto — the books have little to do with the wretchedly…
My Fabulous Friends
In the middle of a manic Monday (as usual) — no, the conference paper isn’t done; no, the book proposal isn’t ready; no, I haven’t done whatever it is I promised you that I would do for sure by today — so in lieu of the film review I had hoped to write, I’ll tell…
Punch Magazine predicts Lady Gaga… in 1929!
Yes, now it can be told! My tireless research has turned up a fascinating artifact from the past. Okay, when I say “tireless research,” I actually mean “something I stumbled across because I have weird reading habits.” Over Xmas break, I wrote a story set in Jazz Age London. I thought I should do a…
Ada Lovelace Day: Sarah Goode
It’s Ada Lovelace Day again: time to celebrate women in science and technology. Perhaps influenced by all the historical research going on around me, I wanted to find a woman at least as far back as the 19th century, so I decided to focus on Sarah E. Goode, who was not only an early inventor…
Alessandra Bava: In Quest of Poetry
I want to introduce you all to a very special friend, my jester nonpareil, Alessandra: Translator, scholar, poet, insightful reader, bon vivant, fount of sprezzatura. I can’t wait until we meet face to face at last when I visit Rome this summer (all too briefly!). She tells us about one of her favourite spots in…
In Anticipation of Women’s Month
Last year’s celebration of women during Women’s History Month went so well, I’d like to invite participants to be guest bloggers for this March. All you need to do is pick a day and send me (in advance, please) a blog post. Please feel free to link to your own work or sites that are…
Publication: A Case of Dead Faces
I’m usually quick to post links to my publications — after all selling books is part of the game. But I’ve been dragging my feet on this one, because I have to admit that I don’t like the cover at all. The anthology was edited by Kerry Morgan over at Pagan Imagination. I haven’t had…
Advisement Day
It’s advisement day, so I am short on time, but as my of my friends and acquaintances are knee deep in NaNoWriMo, let me offer a little cheap writing advice (mostly) from my favourite site for writing quotes: When fate’s got it in for you, there’s no limit to what you may have to put…