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Over on Goodreads, a reviewer named Paul wrote what could be the single most ingenious review of Winnie-the-Pooh ever penned. 

You really don’t see many Nabokov mashups.  I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or bad thing.  But once this got me thinking about mashups it compelled me to something not nearly as clever as Paul’s review [or Steve Halter’s Kinks and Moody Blues mashups, or Scott Denning’s Simon & Garfunkel and Chuck Barry mashups, in the comments below] but certainly inevitable:

[Hi there. If you’ve stopped by to read my infamous blog post regarding the bizarro publishing history of my trilogy, it’s here. If you’ve come for the book giveaway, the details are here. If you’re looking for free stories, they’re here.]

Yesterday, I learned of the passing of a teacher and educator who was extremely influential to me. Jeanie Davis Pullen was a very special person; I can’t imagine anybody who knew her not sharing my opinion. She touched and brightened the lives of many, many people.

I’m very saddened by the news of her passing. I’d been thinking about her recently, and had been meaning to contact her, which I suppose is what motivated me to google her name and thus find her obituary. How is it possible she’s been gone from the world for more than two years? It isn’t. It just isn’t.

Jeanie had, I have no doubt, a string of eulogists who sang her praises and remembered her with an eloquence I can’t hope to approach. She brought that kind of goodness out of people. A proper remembrance would include a long litany of the lives she touched. Anything I say will fall short of properly honoring her. But she’s on my mind today, so I’d like to tell you about Jeanie Pullen.

[Hi there.  If you’ve stopped by to read my infamous blog post regarding the bizarro publishing history of my trilogy, it’s here.]

I have two extra copies of Jonathan Strahan’s anthology, The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 5.  So, I’m giving them away!  And in two separate venues, no less.

I’ve listed one giveaway over at Goodreads.  If you’re on GR, you can go to the giveaways page to sign up to win a copy.  [ETA: The giveaway at Goodreads is still pending approval, as of Monday evening.  My apologies for jumping the gun on this.  It’s up now, Tuesday afternoon.]  If you’re not on Goodreads, or if you’d like to increase your chances of winning, read on.

[Hello there.  If you’re stopping by to read my infamous blog post regarding the bizarro publishing history of my trilogy, it’s here.]

This question isn’t prompted by a recent experience or anything that has happened to me.  (Honest.)  But I’m genuinely curious about something: why do some people tend to heap so much scorn on the simple practice of posting spoiler warnings in online fora?

Not everybody does this, of course.  And I’m sure there are plenty of folks to whom the notion of spoiler warnings wouldn’t even merit a cocked eyebrow.  But enough people seem so dead-set against the idea that… well, it baffles me.

[Hi there.  If you’ve stopped by to read my infamous blog post regarding the bizarro publishing history of my trilogy, it’s here.]

I’ve been meaning to do this for quite a while, but lately I’ve been more scatterbrained than usual.  But!  Thanks to yesterday’s blog comment from Steve Halter (hi, Steve), I finally got my act together and posted a couple of short stories on the website.  One Milkweed story, and one standalone.

Right now they’re both in PDF format.  More formats will come later.  A lot later.  (I know, I should be all Web 3.0 and stuff.  I will.  Later.) 

Links to the new stories are available on the Words page.  And there are also links below the cut, where I’ve written a little bit about the history of both pieces.