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When it has me wishing the traffic jam on the way home had lasted just a little bit longer.

Few books grab me like that.  Last year, it was Arika Okrent’s In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, And the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language.  This one might have been written for me, I loved it so much.

More recently, with regard to my nonfiction reading, it’s Sam Kean’s The Disappearing Spoon and Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of Elements.  I haven’t finished this one yet, but I like what I’m reading so far.  I have high hopes.

…rocks my world. Why haven’t I learned about this wonderfulness before now?

Behind the times as I am, I’ve only just discovered Caro Emerald’s videos on YouTube.  I loves me anything that’s steeped in the style of a bygone era.  So this and this kind of make me swoon. 

She’s like the Michael Jackson of the Netherlands!  I’m really not surprised her first album has bested Michael Jackson’s Thriller for the number of weeks on the top of the charts… in the Netherlands.

The October issue of Apex Magazine went live yesterday.  I’m delighted, and more than a little honored, to have a story in this issue. 

Still Life (A Sexagesimal Fairy Tale) is available online at Apex’s website, and along with the rest of this month’s awesome issue in various ebook formats. (Even if you don’t enjoy my contribution, please consider making a donation or taking out a subscription or purchasing a digital edition of an issue or two, so that Apex can continue to publish awesome short fiction and poetry from the likes of Brenda Stokes Barron, Ekaterina Sedia, Rose Lemberg, and Elizabeth McClellan.)

I am just so dang happy to see this story in a good home with such vaunted company.  Editor Catherynne Valente discusses how she came to put this issue together on her blog, here.  More thoughts and behind-the-scenes trivia below the cut.

This past spring, I had the distinct pleasure of being the Guest of Honor for the 34th Annual Jack Williamson Lectureship at Eastern New Mexico University.  The theme of this year’s Lectureship was Science Fantasy: Into the Next Decade.  I did my best to deliver some thoughtful remarks on that theme.  Nobody threw anything at me, which I take as a sign that my talk went better than I’d expected.

Anyway, several people have asked me to post my GoH talk.  It took me 4 months to do this, but the talk is finally up on the words page.