Adventures in Queer-Welcoming Editing
The recent brouhaha about an anthology (in which a number of authors withdrew their stories after one author was told to change her M/M to heterosexual) highlights for me how much power an editor has...
View ArticleBVC Announces Azkhantian Tales by Deborah J. Ross
From the world of The Seven-Petaled Shield. Across the Azkhantian steppe, warrior women ride to battle against foes both human and supernatural. From the world of The Seven-Petaled Shield come four...
View ArticleWomen Heroes in The Seven-Petaled Shield
Novels begin in many different ways, drawing their “motive energy” or “visions of ultimate coolness” from varied sources. Which is a high-falutin’ way of saying that there is no one right way in which...
View ArticleBVC Announces The Giant of Inishkerry by Sheila Gilluly
The Giant of Inishkerry The Books of the Painter 2 by Sheila Gilluly How do you go on when everything you love has been lost? Aengus might have become the Painter who would save his people, but that...
View ArticleEpic fantasy or sword and sorcery?
For the next eleven days, there is an Epic Fantasy Storybundle on sale. You donate what you want, above five bucks, and you get a hefty pack of books, including an anthology of short stories as a...
View ArticleThe Tajji Diaries: A Story of Her Own
Tajji, our elderly German Shepherd Dog, came to live with us a little over a year ago when she retired from seeing eye guide dog work. She learned new behaviors in the process of “being just a dog.”...
View ArticleStory Excerpt Sunday: From Transfusion by Deborah J. Ross
Transfusion and Other Tales of Hope by Deborah J. Ross “A Borrowed Heart” 18 April Under ordinary circumstances, Lenore Hasland would not have accepted an engagement with a patron she herself had not...
View ArticleBVC Announces Emerging Legacy by Doranna Durgin
Emerging Legacy Wolverine’s Daughter by Doranna Durgin The slavers who capture Kelyn’s youthful hunting pack also threaten her village, which depends on the meat and trade pelts the pack brings in. But...
View ArticleBVC Announces Pearls of Fire, Dreams of Steel, by Deborah J. Ross
Pearls of Fire, Dreams of Steel by Deborah J. Ross A magical pearl turns a young girl into warrior without pity… A dragon bound to an amulet of amber seeks the aid of a forest wizard… A bitter,...
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