“Nadolig Llawen!”

It is about an hour past midnight, in the wee hours of Christmas morning. The parents are safely asleep, and so I have just gotten back from creeping out into the living room and leaving them a little surprise in the stockings left hanging over our (entirely traditional) Christmas Victrola. Since I know neither of …

Magic in the Ordinary

Today is Thanksgiving in the U.S., and I am hiding in my room. Soon I will go and place the massive Death and the Cat print order, but first I want to tell you about something silly that happened. Last weekend when I was tidying up my bathroom I came across a bauble I had purchased …

World Fantasy 2012 [con report]

There is a perfectly reasonable explanation for how I ended up in a Chinese dumpling restaurant outside Toronto singing Jonathan Coulton’s Still Alive a cappella with Amber Scott to a table full of bemused women. It goes something like this: On Wednesday my Wonderful Mother and I flew to Toronto for World Fantasy. World Fantasy …

Ninja Post is Ninja

I have lately found myself giving the URL for this website to all sorts of people, and for all sorts of publications, and I realize that at first glance it may appear a sadly stagnant and deserted house. This is not the case. For as the atheist likes to say: lack of proof of one …

To the Pain

As I have already mentioned elsewhere (not so far on this blog), my beloved cat, Nyx, was run over by a truck last month. I decided not to write of it here, not right away, because I want to keep this blog an interesting and pleasant read, and I always find outpourings of grief to …

A Vegas Weekend

After all that business of announcing new eBooks, have a nice long rambly journal! [edit: updated the journal a tiny bit, it is now augmented with handy links to relevant items.] I was in Las Vegas, Nevada, this last weekend, thanks to the generous offer from my amazing aunt, Rachel. As a starving artiste I …