I am participating in the American Cancer Society Read Every Day challenge. This is an easy one for me, as I read every day anyway! So I am blogging my reading this month in the hopes that you might enjoy my literary journeys, and that you might consider supporting my fundraiser to fight cancer and…
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Relay reading: Day 7
I am participating in the American Cancer Society Read Every Day challenge. This is an easy one for me, as I read every day anyway! So I am blogging my reading this month in the hopes that you might enjoy my literary journeys, and that you might consider supporting my fundraiser to fight cancer and…
February 2025 Linkspam: Are ya feeling WEIRD?
You know what’s fun? Spending an hour writing your newsletter copy, only for a glitch to eat the whole thing. That kind of fits with how things are going these days, doesn’t it? Pretty WEIRD… I know the world is burning down and reading your Facebook feed is enough to leave you hyperventilating into…
Relay reading: Day 6
I am participating in the American Cancer Society Read Every Day challenge. This is an easy one for me, as I read every day anyway! So I am blogging my reading this month in the hopes that you might enjoy my literary journeys, and that you might consider supporting my fundraiser to fight cancer and…
Relay Reading: Day 5
Another chapter of Why We Can’t Sleep, this one on job instability. It’s getting pretty depressing, reciting how difficult it is to get a job after forty, because apparently being young and attractive is more important than experienced and capable. The book is still reciting problems, backed up with statistical evidence and individual stories, but…
Relay Reading: Days 1-4
I am participating in the American Cancer Society Read Every Day challenge. This is an easy one for me, as I read every day anyway! So I am blogging my reading this month in the hopes that you might enjoy my literary journeys, and that you might consider supporting my fundraiser to fight cancer and…
January 2025 Linkspam: Happy New Year!
Reports of my demise have been greatly exaggerated. — Samuel Clemens Remember when I said I greatly regretted taking on such a huge class overload for the fall? Well, it pretty much ate me for the last two months of 2024, and one of the things that fell through the cracks was this newsletter. So…
A parable from Petunia Pigthighs
It’s been a while since we’ve done a roundup of book banning news, because it’s so freaking depressing. Buckle in, folks, and grab the mood-altering beverage of your choice. (Mine: coffee.) The title comes from a nastygram I got on social media this week for pointing out yet another round of book banning. I got…
October 2024: This newsletter was not created by AI
It seems everywhere I go, I’m plagued with AI. Cribbing term papers is not a new invention; since the first teacher scratched out the first assignment on a stone tablet, Krog and Ug were sneaking peeks at each other’s slate. But AI has taken avoiding the work of writing to a new, shiny level, and…
Archon ahoy! and all the others!
This year I was faced with a terrible conundrum. The Edwardsville Book Festival, AuthorCon, and Archon are all this weekend. Why, why God? AuthorCon is a terrific creation of Scares That Care horrormeister Brian Keene. I’ve been hearing tales of what a wonderful convention it is, with networking and workshops and other delightful writer-nerdery. But…