If you’re anything like me, there aren’t enough hours in the day (or in your life) to read every book on your decades-long reading list. It’s a cold, hard fact, but you can make yourself feel a little better about it by plowing through some short fiction at those times when it isn’t convenient to hold […]
The Creepy Small Town (CST), with its sharp picket fences and toothy smiles, is an enduring favorite for good reason: it’s got everything. Adorable home-town spirit? Check. Vague, unsettling sense of menace? Check. Gardens on point? Check. Human sacrifice? Seriously almost always check (memo to protagonists who find themselves in a CST situation: just assume it’s human sacrifice.) […]
Science fiction and fantasy have a long history of authors writing under pseudonyms. Sometimes, it’s because they are so prolific, their editors fear they’ll flood the market. Others, chiefly women, have found it easier to break into the market with a gender-ambiguous name (if not one that is outright male), because, especially years ago, sales departments feared […]
