• Book Review: The Desert Talon by Karin Lowachee

    The Desert Talon is a study of PTSD, social welfare that is not as helpful as it possibly could be, and the clash of cultures as the Ba’Suon characters face off against their Mazoön counterparts. It takes place within the same time frame and a length of time after The Mountain Crown. This is the…

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    • Book Review: Storm Furies by Wen Spencer

      Storm Furies picks up right where Harbingers breaks off. The domana-caste elves have been forcibly unlogged from their Spell Stones as the Skin Clan and oni invade. Tinker and Oilcan have to muster forces to protect the elven enclaves, Tinker’s siblings are in the wind, and Esme and Lain’s brother Tristan may or may not…

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      • WritersCoffeeClub 11.11 Do you agree with Samuel Johnson, who said, “What is written without effort is generally read without pleasure”?

        Yes, this is another Writers Coffee Club post that’s going long and therefore getting posted to the blog. I am usually able to keep my answers short. I’ve started blogging them because threading is annoying when you can’t edit the posts. (Why does mastodon have it set up that way? It is actually really annoying.…

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        • WritersCoffeeClub 11.9 Do you ever use particular punctuation characters? How do you use them?

          So I was not able to get in all of various characters I use when I write. I use a lot of them, particularly when I am writing in an “experimental” format. (Different font colors, font sizes and and punctuation being used in novel ways to communication what’s going on in the story.) Most of…

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          • Book Review: A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys

            A Half-Built Garden is a visit to the familiar trope of “the aliens come to fix things/rescue humanity.” About 80% of the time (a percentage I pulled out from under my reading stack) this set up has a twist. The aliens want to eat us. The aliens want to eat us (and steal our resources).…

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