Looove these Tiny Angry Witch videos. (The Tiny Angry Witch) Circa 1920, so a tad out of date. It’s missing the “Some Hemsworths” area, just for starters. (h/t Brilliant Maps) ICYMI, Saul’s got your back. Mike, too. Gulp. (h/t Laughing Squid) No one better than Sarah Paine for telling it like it really is. I…
THG links The Poisoned Pen publication day launch, starring the Danamaniacs! An audio excerpt of THG, starring Marguerite Gavin! The Harvey Girl ARC letter The Harvey Girl Case File video The Avon Free Public Library video The Fresh Fiction Q&A The THG Acknowledgements page Dana Stabenow Made Me a Danamaniac (My Bookcase Slays…
And the live version…
I was weeding yesterday and the worst news is the death of six of the seven geranium magnificums and two of the four red rocket barberrys, among other losses. But the good news is that much of the garden survived the record low temperatures with no insulating snowpack of this horrible winter and interminably windy,…
Because what the gatekeepers are recommending people read is also part of #thiswritinglife… Yesterday NPR ran a piece on recommended nonfiction reads for the summer. The list included A bio of Gisèle Pelicot, the woman in France whose husband drugged her and then let all his friends rape her a book on critical race theory…
McKibben calls this a fable, but I donʼt know. What if people like Vern in states like Vermont all over the nation became accidental, nonviolent secessionists? What if they inspired their states’ equivalents of town halls to talk about and even vote on leaving the nation to be their own independent countries? If enough of…
I followed him on the strength of this video alone. (Josh Johnson) I had to sit there in the garage to hear the last five minutes of Part 1 before I could force myself out of the car. And then I went right into the house and put Part 2 on the Boze. (Apple Podcasts)…
If only Frodo and Sam had had Google Maps. “This route has trolls.” Also, love the restaurant icons. Click through to embiggen to see how much faster they could have got there if they’d just detoured through Mirkwood. Map creator Mark Crosby. Oh yes, my precious, you must click through to read the comments. LOTR…
This is why I belong to the Authors Guild in a nutshell: They go to D.C. so I don’t have to. From the AG newsletter: Authors Go to Washington: The Authors Guild Takes the AI Copyright Fight to Capitol Hill June 2, 2026 Excerpts: On May 20 and 21, Authors Guild legal staff and board members went…
