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My mother is pro-choice.

Is there a “My mother was pro-choice” / “My mother is pro-choice” bumpersticker? And if not, why not? I vaguely wish there were a “Sorry your mother was pro-life. My mother chose me” bumpersticker, but it’s too long, and there’s no way to make sure the ...

From MANDOLIN, Alas, a blog,  11 Nov 2009

Halloween Limericks

I linked to these a couple years ago when they were published, but the magazine’s website seems to be down. So, here they are in a blog entry. Happy Halloween (in a couple days)! Gwennie the good-hearted ghoul did her best to avoid being cruel. She ...

From MANDOLIN, Alas, a blog,  29 Oct 2009

Fantasy Short Story, “Great, Golden Wings” at Beneath Ceaseless Skies

My brief, light-hearted fantasy story “Great, Golden Wings” is available on Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Check it out, if you like. I’m told it will also be available in audio soon. Lady Percivalia watched the young cinematographist’s hands as he set up ...

From MANDOLIN, Alas, a blog,  22 Oct 2009

Ableism in Workshop Advice: “There are Worse Things Than Death…”

There’s something that gets bandied about a lot in workshops when people are talking to newbies. “You don’t have to kill your characters to up the stakes,” they say. “There are worse things that can happen to people than death.” This is… well, I don’t ...

From MANDOLIN, Alas, a blog,  21 Oct 2009

Recoommendations, please!

If your submitted comment fails to appear, without even an error or "waiting for moderation" message, then our spam-blocking software may have blocked your comment. Please contact the moderators immediately so we can rescue your comment. If this ...

From MANDOLIN, Alas, a blog,  14 Oct 2009

Your TV is Lying to You

Having spent the past twelve hours hanging out with a bipolar person in their full blown manic state, i’d like to make a few comments. And i’m making this post public, unlike most of them here. (Perhaps them being manic wore off on me some, because i ...

From MANDOLIN, Alas, a blog,  7 Oct 2009

Help Raise Money for Strange Horizons, Online Magazine with a Focus on Diversity

Strange Horizons is an online magazine that publishes short stories, poetry, art, and articles. Part of their mission is to increase diversity in the publishing sphere, which includes getting work out there by women, people of color, and people on the ...

From MANDOLIN, Alas, a blog,  14 Aug 2009

Related Topics: John Scalzi

Carl Brandon Society Open Letter

Quite recently, something rather nasty happened to K. Tempest Bradford. On this blog, you know her as the angry black woman. She is apparently a Woman of Color (which REALLY makes me want to bee-atch-slap her, being the guy who discovered and ...

From MANDOLIN, Alas, a blog,  27 Jul 2009

Publisher Bloomsbury White-Washes Book by Using White Girl’s Face on Cover to Depict Black Character.

In the history of publishing, it hasn’t been uncommon for publishers to take books about black characters and white-wash them by depicting the characters on the covers as white. The example I was most familiar with as a kid was Dawn by Octavia Butler. ...

From MANDOLIN, Alas, a blog,  24 Jul 2009

Related Topics: Octavia Butler,  Wikipedia,  Fats Domino,  Pat Boone

Sharing Some Links About Women in Fantasy Art

P.S. I said that I didn’t want to get into all the controversy about the specific RoF cover that has been the flashpoint for all this, but I do want to say — while the image is sexualized, there are some really nice things about it, including some very ...

From MANDOLIN, Alas, a blog,  21 Jul 2009

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