After several weeks of obsessively reading coronavirus news, worrying about my family in New York, and lecturing my stubborn, 72-year-old father to take more precautions, my brain wants to shut down. My body aches to escape somewhere safe and beautiful and wild. Yet my beloved beaches and local parks […]
I’m always juggling a half-dozen story ideas around in my head. Recently, I’ve debated whether to start one written from the point of view of an animal – a bird who survives an apocalypse that kills off all human civilization. I pitched the short story to my kids (if you […]
What better way to wrap up 2019 than to review some of the speculative fiction/ sci-fi/ fantasy books I read this year? I’d recommend any of these as a gift. Circe by Madeline Miller Recommended for: Everyone, especially feminists. The writing is this book is gor-ge-ous. Since you’ve probably […]
I may have mentioned before that I did a teeny-weeny little bit of research for my novel-in-progress, Last of Kin. Set in a remote, New Guinea rainforest, it features two strong female protagonists — an ambitious paleontologist and a living descendent of the otherwise extinct hominid species homo floresiensis. Actually, […]
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