Category Archives: Whatever

Alaya Dawn Johnson’s debut novel, Racing the Dark, was released in 2007 by Agate Bolden. The epic fantasy is the first in the Spirit Binders series. Racing the Dark begins when thirteen-year-old Lana is initiated as a diver who seeks … Continue reading →

I was happily writing along when all of a sudden Pandora turned up a musician I’d never heard before and I fell in love. I almost never find musicians I love, but Gabriel Kahane is amazing. He’s sort of like … Continue reading →

College friend Tim Jones-Yelvington has recently published a pair of stories about the fictional seduction of gay celebrities diver Matt Mitcham and singer Adam Lambert. His narrator is a gay sociologist who keeps a blog record of his seductions, in … Continue reading →

In my blurb for Cat Rambo’s new collection, Eyes Like Sky and Coal and Moonlight (Paper Golem Press, 2009), I wrote that reading her stories is like “reading the literature from worlds that don’t exist. She writes as that world’s … Continue reading →

I’ve been guest posting at Jeff VanderMeer’s blog, Ecstatic Days. I haven’t reposted everything I’ve put up there over here, so here are some links to my guest entries: Bad Credits Will Not Get You Published. You do not need … Continue reading →

When Hallmark lured David Ellis Dickerson to a Kansas City interview, they offered him a potential starting salary of $27,000. After interviewing him in person, they upped their offer to $32,000. “To this day,” writes Dickerson, “I am convinced that … Continue reading →

Via Whatever, I found this piece by Matt Yglesias asking why — if vampires are thousands of years old — they don’t act old: Across various fictions, why don’t vampires exhibit more cranky old man characteristics? I’m only 28 and … Continue reading →

I’m going to imagine “2012” happens in the same universe as “The Ugly Truth,” so all those characters die horribly. Dave Weigel Consider this an open thread for you to share thoughts, self-promotion, and random bits of arcana.