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derspatchel found someone to drive Hestia to the vet. (She is going to be fine. I should mention here that our cats have been unfailing sources of comfort and affection over the last few days. They slept the whole night through on either side of me, curled softly and warmly at my shoulder and my knees. I think they are the best mental health investment we made in 2014, in addition to the cutest.) There was a lot more running around in the rain than I had planned for. Then apparently it hailed while we were napping. Go home, winter. Just go home.
1. Ghost Signs has been reviewed, along with Lisa M. Bradley's The Haunted Girl and Jennifer Marie Brissett's Elysium, by Amal El-Mohtar in the latest issue of Lightspeed. I am very, very honored by everything she says.
To read Taaffe writing of the ocean is to long for drowning; to read Taaffe writing of the theatre, of history, of haunting, of ghosts, of travel, of memory, is to feel yourself straining against the limits of your skin in order to fall deeper into her work.
(The accompanying review of "The Boatman's Cure" can be found at Tor.com.)
2. The Kickstarter for Genius Loci: Tales of the Spirit of Place has passed its first stretch goal, meaning a pay raise for the authors. (Thank you!) The next stretch goal is more artwork and a pay raise for the artists, who deserve it just as much. Please chip in! This is going to be a splendid anthology. I wrote Roman secret history for it based on somethingcsecooney said about seaweed.
3. Signal-boosting for Not One of Us, whose website is currently down due to domain-name assery: the magazine is still alive, still reading for issue #53, and the new e-mail address for submissions, queries, and subscriptions is john@not-one-of-us.pub. Send work while you're at it.
4. A former professor of mine from Yale speaks about the destruction of antiquities in Iraq. The Cuneiform Commentaries Project is cool; the reason it is highlighted in that interview is not.
5. I know the wires look like whiskers, but I can't help seeing this image as a selkie. I feel like I know how this one feels.
derspatchel found someone to drive Hestia to the vet. (She is going to be fine. I should mention here that our cats have been unfailing sources of comfort and affection over the last few days. They slept the whole night through on either side of me, curled softly and warmly at my shoulder and my knees. I think they are the best mental health investment we made in 2014, in addition to the cutest.) There was a lot more running around in the rain than I had planned for. Then apparently it hailed while we were napping. Go home, winter. Just go home.1. Ghost Signs has been reviewed, along with Lisa M. Bradley's The Haunted Girl and Jennifer Marie Brissett's Elysium, by Amal El-Mohtar in the latest issue of Lightspeed. I am very, very honored by everything she says.
To read Taaffe writing of the ocean is to long for drowning; to read Taaffe writing of the theatre, of history, of haunting, of ghosts, of travel, of memory, is to feel yourself straining against the limits of your skin in order to fall deeper into her work.
(The accompanying review of "The Boatman's Cure" can be found at Tor.com.)
2. The Kickstarter for Genius Loci: Tales of the Spirit of Place has passed its first stretch goal, meaning a pay raise for the authors. (Thank you!) The next stretch goal is more artwork and a pay raise for the artists, who deserve it just as much. Please chip in! This is going to be a splendid anthology. I wrote Roman secret history for it based on something
csecooney said about seaweed.3. Signal-boosting for Not One of Us, whose website is currently down due to domain-name assery: the magazine is still alive, still reading for issue #53, and the new e-mail address for submissions, queries, and subscriptions is john@not-one-of-us.pub. Send work while you're at it.
4. A former professor of mine from Yale speaks about the destruction of antiquities in Iraq. The Cuneiform Commentaries Project is cool; the reason it is highlighted in that interview is not.
5. I know the wires look like whiskers, but I can't help seeing this image as a selkie. I feel like I know how this one feels.
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