Things I should at least mention

[truepenny]

• Award: A Companion to Wolves won the Romantic Times 2007 Reviewers' Choice Award for Best Fantasy Novel. Congratulations to all the other winners.
  
• Penguicon: I am abysmal at con reports, so I'm not even going to try. Despite some organizational issues, I had a lovely time and enjoyed every panel I was on.
  
• Open Source Boob thingamajig: to which I am not even going to link because if you're interested, you can find it without my help. As a spontaneous happening among a group of consenting friends: good. Not something I would participate in, like, EVER, but other people are not me, and that's okay. As a public social "movement"? Doubleplus ungood. My body is not public domain, and I want it to stay that way. To be fair, the original poster has figured out his error (and I do believe it was an error, not willful or malicious) and retracted his manifesto.
  
• Stuff to Read (Mine): Came home to two sets of contributors' copies, Weird Tales with "The Yellow Dressing Gown" (and the awesomest illustration in the history of ever--thank you, Vance Kelly) and Fictitious Force with "No Man's Land".
  
• Stuff to Read (Also Mine): "A Night in Electric Squidland" is going to be reprinted in The Lone Star Stories Reader (TOC here).
  
• Stuff to Read (Others): Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean. I can't even find the words to explain how good this book is. I came to it the long way round, from Cry Cry Cry's cover of James Keelaghan's song "Cold Missouri Waters"--with which, as you may recall, I had a violent love affair while finishing Corambis. I love the book more.
  
• Stuff to Read (Still Others): heresluck posts a poem every Monday. This week's offering is the reason I forgive Margaret Atwood for dissing the genre I love. Because ow.
  
• Stuff to Read (And Still Others): jimhines has a lovely, angry, thoughtful post on men and rape.

Comments

[shadefell.livejournal.com]

Have you any idea how to go about buying "Fictitious Force"? Their webiste (unless it's been recently updated) doesn't even mention the current issue, and it looks like you can only buy issues 1-3 from them. Someone else on my f-list is also published in them, and she doesn't know how to buy copies either.

"The Yellow Dressing Gown" was very awesome.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

I don't personally know how to go about ordering FF, but I've emailed the editor/publisher and asked.

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

Young Men in Fire contains enough awesome for about seven other books. Maybe more than that, even. Also, because it is so short, the amount of awesome per page may well break some international publishing trade agreements.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on the award.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[rarelylynne.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the award!

[callunav.livejournal.com]

Hadn't read "Night in Electric Squidland" before. Really, really like it. The dynamics between Mick and Jamie are deep and chewy, and the story is strong enough to carry them.

[hms-yowling.livejournal.com]

Re: "boobgate"-- maybe not "malicious" in intent but the initial depiction, as well as the response to criticism is certainly astoundingly ignorant and wilfully stupid (and certainly reveals attitudes towards women and women's bodies that is, to say the least, telling). I can't just give the guy a pass on this.

I could go on (and on) but it would be a McRantyPants post containing commentary that's already been said, probably better, by others.

[dsgood.livejournal.com]

congratulations on the award!

[sovay]

A Companion to Wolves won the Romantic Times 2007 Reviewers' Choice Award for Best Fantasy Novel.

Congratulations!

[neutronjockey.livejournal.com]

If you'd like a daily dose of verse fledgist often makes 2 or more daily posts of original poetry that just might suit your tastes.

Interesting post..

[(Anonymous)]

favorited this one, guy