Angel’s Bits – Transgender Awareness Week
Hi all and Happy Friday! This week is Transgender Awareness Week, November 14-20. Instead of me talking about this, I want to signal boost The Trans Fiction Week blog project … Read more
Angel’s Bits
Angel’s Bits – It’s Been a Tough Week
Well. This has just been a dreadful year and the past week wasn’t any improvement. Usually, I’d write a Friday thing about some aspect of publishing or marketing. It just … Read more
Angel’s Bits: Plagiarism
It’s a nasty, ugly word, isn’t it? Plagiarism. It rears up with shocking regularity in every writing circle – academia, journalism, fiction, biography. Every time I see a new case … Read more
Angel’s Bits – ‘Tis The Season for Paranormal
Paranormal – those stories that fall outside what can be explained using what is known about the universe. Ghosts. Vampires. Werewolves and so on and… What’s that? All queer paranormal … Read more
Angel’s Bits – Stalking Authors in the Wild
Authors are much more accessible these days – at least online. We can friend our favorite authors, follow blogs and Twitter feeds, see photos of them with friends and so … Read more
Angel’s Bits: The Generic Story
How many times has this happened to you? You read a book, watch a movie, catch something on the Hallmark channel and think, “I’ve read this before. I know this … Read more
Angel’s Bits – Author as Reader
It bothers me on a wince-inducing, cellular level when an author says these words: I don’t have time to read. Dude (used in the gender-neutral, collective sense) – that’s part … Read more
Angel’s Bits – Writer Diseases (And When Do They Stop?)
Hi all! It’s been an odd summer – too hot, too busy, too many things to figure out – so my personal writing has been in something of a slump. … Read more
Angel’s Bits: Off to Flame Con And About That…
This’ll be a short one this morning – I’m off to Brooklyn in a couple of hours for Flame Con. (Woohoo!) This will be the second year for this particular … Read more
Angel’s Bits – SF covers retrospective
We were talking about covers the other day – the good, the bad, and the merely horrendous – which made me think of SF covers and how you can often … Read more