On Fantasies and Kings
In addressing the charge that genre fantasy displays a reactionary political bias by setting so many of its works in genre-medieval kingdoms, Kate Elliott aptly points her finger at lazy worldmaking...
View ArticleDon’t You Wish You Lived Then? (Musings on Class and Fantasy)
I used to get asked that question a lot in my Regency-writing days. The short, simple answer: No. No painless dentistry, eccentric provision for sewage, no penicillin and no concept of asepsis, and...
View ArticleMemo to Hollywood: How to do (and not do) an adaptation
I have just watched The Seeker: The Dark is Rising, a year after it came out (DVR is your friend, except maybe in this case) and I’m gasping in horror at how bad it was, and for no good reason. You’ve...
View ArticleThe Fox in the Dollhouse
After attending Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse panel at last year’s Comicon, I was eagerly awaiting the premiere. So were friends, and there was even a party with a showing of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog...
View ArticleLord Ooky Hellwrought’s Sixteen Unspeakable Utterances
Lord Ooky Hellwrought’s Sixteen Unspeakable Utterances (a Supplementary Lexicon for Lady Pixie Moondrip’s Random Craft Name Generator) In her well-famed essay, to which I refer you for reference, the...
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Fort Freak, and Writing in the Cities You’ve Never Visited
As before, news and a rumination. The news is that Fort Freak, the latest volume in the ongoing Wild Cards cycle, has been announced over at George R.R. Martin’s blog, and I’m among the writers tapped...
View ArticleNo Visible Means of Support. Please.
In the days when I was reading slush (unsolicited manuscripts to the fortunately uninitiated) we had a rule of thumb: the more “supporting materials” came with a fantasy manuscript, the more likely the...
View Article*Best Served Cold* *2009). Orbit
It seems that the first day of autumn rolled in this morning. Since summer didn’t show up until August it does seem too soon. But then, we are going to be on a real campus this weekend (Yale– how...
View ArticleGore Vidal Has Left the Stage 1925 – 2012
Charles McGrath’s New York Times obituary for Gore Vidal calls him “the elegant, acerbic all-around man of letters who presided with a certain relish over what he declared to be the end of American...
View ArticleInterview for Savage Mojo’s Dungeonlands Kickstarter
A brief update. I’ve been brought on to write the Ur legend for Savage Mojo’s Dungeonlands Kickstarter project: “Legend of the Lich Queen,” which kicks off their “Tomb of the Lich Queen” trilogy which...
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