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i know it's been literal years but i finally got around to reading divine endurance and am utterly engrossed in it. i found this blog post/speech made by the author gwyneth jones in 1998 which you guys might be interested, as it discusses the nature of the scifi genre and fairytales vs romance and slash fiction and so much else that would go on to be foundational to this modern subgenre: www(.)gwynethjones(.)uk/OSLO(.)htm

I believe Lee references this speech in our recent Piranesi episode!

Divine Endurance is one of those books that I try to have at least two copies of at any given moment so I'm always ready to give one away.

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celebrate fathers day by knocking that boy up

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(puts all the Saint of Steel's paladins in my pocket and rattles them around)

just finished all four currently existing Saint of Steel books and I keep thinking about all these guys

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we need more divorcebaiting. how strongly can canon imply (without technically outright stating) that these two characters are bitterly, acrimoniously divorced? essential we explore this

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This blog is a safe space for nightgown clad women with candelabras and scared byronic men

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My cartoon for this week’s @guardian books

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Subraj Singh just won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for the Caribbean region with this incredibly story.

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This book features some interesting twists on a bunch of familiar microgenre tropes (not least of which is a het romance in a default bisexual world), but more importantly it's a well-paced and entertaining fantasy novel, moving briskly from one compelling set piece to the next. This is such a rare quality that it doesn't need any ideas, so it's cool that it has some anyway.

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very last minute announcement but i'll be at the Ithaca Book & Zine Fair tomorrow from 11am-5pm!! if any ithaca/upstate NY followers are able to stop by, let me know & i'll give you free minizines <3

215 N. Cayuga Street Dewitt Mall Ithaca, NY 14850

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So this is a coming of age YA novel about a girl from Nebraska who writes not-Harry Potter fanfiction. It's hilarious and devastating and well-crafted and it took us completely by surprise.

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MERCH DROP

Or, perhaps

Shop 1, Shop 2.

But that's not all: as Redbubble pays its designers essentially nothing (and as print on demand is the only option that makes sense at this scale) feel free to print your own if you prefer. Download the big images here and here.

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now say it with me: authors/artists dont owe you moral purity. an author/artist job is not to hold you by the hand & tell you exactly what is Good™ & what is Bad™. you should be able to think for yourself

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riding the trolley out of omelas because i'm a little too shaken to walk rn and i just heard this weird thump from the tracks. probably nothing

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if you want capitalization you better be paying me at least pro rate

Talking with writers online

Their stories: Amazing grammar, soaring vocabulary, beautiful imagery and prose which flows like a river.

In chats: no capitalisation or punctuation, swears like a sailor, misspellings everywhere, acronyms and abbreviations every five words, idek

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Quails are so nice. Growing hyperfocused on quails

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Lianyu Tan brings us another helping of Xena Uber. This one's a Pratchettesque satire on nobility, featuring our Gabrielle stand-in as the world's brattiest power bottom, insisting that she has to be chained to the mast by a pirate queen so Xena better get busy becoming one. It's very funny! But by the end of the book we've discovered the horrific circumstances that led to this wacky situation, and it's decidedly less funny, even as the jokes keep coming.

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