“A man can beat his wife with car antennas, can trade his children for drugs or motorcycles, but still, when he finally, mercifully dies, his survivors will have to hear from some know-nothing at the post-funeral dinner that he did his best.” David Sed…
No one will read your book (and other truths about publishing)
Books compete in a crowded market for a sliver of our attention. “One of the biggest ironies about this business is that there are lots of people who want to become authors, but that doesn’t necessarily equate with the number of people who are voraciou…
Ursula LeGuin, Jacqueline Jackson, and the Wooden Woman
A previously unpublished poem by Ursula LeGuin has just appeared on the web. You can learn much more about Jacqueline Dougan Jackson, children’s author and college professor, on her website. A few of the many previous posts on LeGuin: here, here, and h…
Emotion is not the antithesis of logic
Becky Chambers and Martha Wells discuss A Psalm for the Wild-Built and Fugitive Telemetry (slyt)