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 are […]
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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