The Howff

The Howff in Bloom

One of my favourite places in the city: history, folklore, memory and beauty. A late night battle by Hecate Sidlaw, an oasis in the city. The Howff is a gem. It’s #FolkloreThursday — what stories do you know about cemeteries? Hear it now, too! Howff Field Recording

Dundee Stones

Next week at this time I will be at Loncon3 talking about Tove Jansson and her Moomins. And I will be missing Dundee 😦 It’s going to be strange returning to teaching in NY.

News Round Up

Yeeha! I’m allowed to use that because I have a Western coming out this week. Admittedly it’s a weird Western, but you wouldn’t expect any less of me, now would you? Some of you may be familiar with this story: now expanded into a stand alone novella. It still pokes at me to become the…

Dundee Spring

Hanging out in the Howff on a sunny day 🙂 Always a delight.

Byron’s Visit

It’s always lovely to have visitors. I hadn’t actually seen Byron face to face since the witchcraft conference at Harvard years ago. Of course we keep up via social media (which is one of the many reasons I love it), but it was great to have a chance to catch up in person and have…

The Maltman

Happy birthday to my big brother, Steve! Wandering the Howff again, trolling for material I suppose as always. That’s what I do all the time. You know that by now, don’t you? That’s what writers do: absorb everything and turn it sideways and fit it into stories. You have to turn it slant, as Emily…