‘I should have died the day I learned my father’s name. I would have, but for the second of three gifts I inherited from him, and one I took from my mother. I think—I did die. I just didn’t stay dead. After 25 years, several titles, and several false starts, I’m rewriting and fine-tuning the…
Read More Light On Water, rebootedI was in countdown to the March 3, 2020 release of K.M. Szpara’s (M/M Dystopia? Romance? Slavefic? Cautionary screed?) DOCILE, from Tor Books. I’ve been hearing about this book for over a year. I’d planned on actually ordering it. Then I read the first eight chapters on a free Kindle Sample offer. Oh, dear. I…
Read More Review: DOCILE by K.M. SzparaYou should read R. B. Lemberg’s THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES from Tachyon Publications. You should also read their prequel novellette ‘Grandmother-nai-Leylit’s Cloth of Winds’ in Beneath Ceaseless Skies. It would not be a bad thing to read their charming ‘The Desert Glassmaker and the Jeweler of Berevyar’ in Uncanny Magazine. Or their…wait. Stop. Just go…
Read More Review: THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES by R.B. LembergI’m psyching myself up to finishing some major pieces of fiber, bead, & book art this year, including some pieces in the design phase for years! To start, I wanted a pair or two of gloriously beaded sandals. (To work on, enter in art shows, wear to art & book events, etc.) I can’t justify…
Read More Beaded Panels for ShoesThe Putz-in-Chief has once again demonstrated…to everyone but his cultists… how little he really knows or cares about America’s Heartland. This SuperbOwl tweet from Donald Trump was taken down quickly, but screenshots abound. Here is one more. What’s even more pathetic? #BoneSpurs Donny has attended several rallies in Missouri! Recently! You’d think Kellyanne or Hannity…
Read More Um, Kansas City is in MissouriI’m looking back on old art pieces that stalled out, got trunked, went into limbo…whatever we call it, most artists have some. Why they stalled? All reasons are valid: ‘I made it for someone, we lost touch, I’m embarrassed by them now, they’re embarrassed by me, I’m not finishing this!’ ‘I bit off way more…
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