We seem to be rolling through the last week of 2011 at a barrelling clip. I’m going hammer and tongs at a bunch of things, all at once, and some of them are really big and kind of scary. Some of them are the kinds of things where I am just taking a deep [...]
From the Magick4Terri auction: Beloved editor, artist and writer Terri Windling is in need, and we are asking for your help in a fundraising auction to assist her. This auction will combine donations from professionals and fans in an online sale to help Terri through a serious financial crisis. Terri is the creator of groundbreaking [...]
Happy Monday, my dears. I would be remiss not to remind you all that signups for the Commie Pinko Writing Contest are still open. We’re about halfway full on fiction, so if you’re thinking about being a fictionaut with us, now’s the time to get in while the getting’s good. There are scads of nonfic [...]
Let the merry frolic commence! Signups are now open for the 2012 Commie Pinko Writing Contest! What is the Commie Pinko, you ask? Well, it’s a writing contest I dreamed up a buncha years back, on the premise that writing contests would be a lot more fun if you actually got to read what other [...]
I figure any day that begins with discovering — by following the stench — that your resident 85-year-old with dementia has hidden a dead mouse in a plastic snack baggie in a bureau drawer is only likely to get better. Following the mouse removal, anyway. (For those of you who do not live in 200-year-old [...]
Everything is wonderful, wish you were here. I’m having a grand time this book tour, blessed with wonderful audiences and beautiful weather in some of my favorite cities, seeing friends and meeting so many lovely, brilliant, funny, and good looking people. (How is it that so many of you are so damn cute?) Thank you [...]
Today, I have three word-related intelligences to impart! Intelligence the First: The Return of the Commie Pinko! Several years ago, I founded and ran a writing contest. It was a great deal of fun, but other things intervened and I stopped doing it for a while. And then a dear friend of mine asked [...]
It’s time for some more Big Big Love! First, we start with two very different but equally relevant and good interviews… BBL in the Jewish Daily Forward, and BBL at Xojane.com. Check ‘em out! This coming week will find me in Philly, Brooklyn, Boston, and Northampton, MA (town of my birth). C’mon out and say hi, buy a [...]
Big Big Love launches with a big big splash this weekend here in Baltimore. I’ll be bringing out the homemade cupcakes at Atomic Books on Friday night, 7-9. And the only My Big Fat Sex Workshop I’m teaching this fall at Sugar on Sunday. Be there! And speaking of Big Big Love, I am honored to [...]
Withoutscene and Glenda, please email me your mailing addresses. I shall be adding your additions to my bio posthaste, and then sending you each a book! In other important news, those of you in the mid-Atlantic might wanna know specifically about a few upcoming events that are happening this weekend and next… On Saturday night [...]