A VIRTUOSO RIFF ON AN AMERICAN classic: the inimitable Percival Everett retells the story of Huckleberry Finn from Jim’s perspective, transforming it from a familiar picaresque to a more complex adventure and a meditation on code-switching. A MINUS
STUMBLING TOWARD ENLIGHTENMENT in Seoul: university friends now in their thirties find heartbreak and lesser forms of anomie in this eloquent, multivocal experimental novel rich with details of life in today’s South Korea. B PLUS
"Everybody looks at everybody all the time and you don't need to be a celebrity to feel the need for privacy. I myself was recently in big trouble with my Confessor for being slow to post a birthing video. I'm not talking about being either an extrovert or an introvert: I'm talking about people who don't believe privacy is a perversion, people who think it might even be a virtue."
This week, I started writing The Ninety-Three, a murder-mystery set in 1918, during the closing months of the Great War. The narrator is Dr Anna Richards, a sociologist, suffragette and socialite. The story opens in Downing Street with someone hurling a brick through the prime minister’s window…
Two items brought to my attention today, in relation to Eve’s Peace, my Heroines of SOE sequel. One, the proof copy of the paperback version. Two, this wonderful review. “Love, distrust, trust, & secrets galore. Woven superbly by the author makes for wonderous reading, hard to put down book. Rating the book a 9 1/2 only because now I must look for sequels & prequels for this wonderful series...”
I'm seeing so much #antisemitism right now. Let me share with you my traditional response to it: my SFF #novels. The ones with #Jewish main characters are The Time of the Ghosts, The Wizardry of Jewish Women, and The Green Children Help Out. https://gillianpolack.com/my-books/ The Green Children Help Out is published by a Jewish press.
I would be very happy if people shared their favourite SFF novels by current Jewish writers. So many Jewish cultures to read about! So much potential for good fiction.
The Softer Side
OMG I haven't drawn these two in so long I literally had to reference Steve's cybernetic legs from my character sheet. O_O The softer side of Steve here... and it's all due to Maribel's influence! #spiderforest#webcomics#indieauthors#amwriting#novels
"How could she leave the Central Hearth without taking her things with her? She said she would get them before leaving."
"She probably never took her things with her because she may have never left the Central Hearth."
Dear #writers
I'm begging you, please just talk to a behavioral scientist/psychologist before publishing. Or read a textbook. Read Wikipedia. Anything.
"Psychotic" doesn't mean what you think it does. No, that's not why therapy works. Your armchair theories about mental illnesses and substance use need to be updated or scrapped altogether. Freud's theories were never any good and haven't been relevant for decades.
While I'm here: you also might not know what "bemused" means, and even if you do, please limit its use to perhaps twice in one book.
Looking for stuff to read, especially to nominate for awards this year? Consider these books, short stories, & other works published in 2023 by creators whose works have previously won the Otherwise Award, & past Fellows.
The Otherwise (formerly the Tiptree) Award celebrates science fiction, fantasy, & other forms of speculative narrative that expand and explore our understanding of gender.
SISTERS, CLINGING TOGETHER after a family tragedy leaves one with profound brain injuries and the other with responsibilities she can barely handle, find separate ways through crises. Lovely mix of Trinidadian legends and European fairy tales.
Here is the complete announcement: https://commaful.notion.site/commaful/A-Heartfelt-Goodbye-and-a-New-Beginning-at-Commaful-a31080180fa647f5ad69eac89fa6b532...
The Ingenuity team has nicknamed the spot where the helicopter completed its final flight “Valinor Hills” after the fictional location in J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy novels, which include “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy.
Commaful, a website specializing in short fiction stories will shut down on February 24, 2024. (commaful.notion.site)
Here is the complete announcement: https://commaful.notion.site/commaful/A-Heartfelt-Goodbye-and-a-New-Beginning-at-Commaful-a31080180fa647f5ad69eac89fa6b532...