CBC Bookie Award Nom!

by | Mar 13, 2012 | Blog Archive, News

Yes, the voting criteria are loose at best. No, Margaret Atwood’s non-fiction anthology about science fiction probably shouldn’t have been included in the “Science Fiction, Fantasy or Speculative Fiction” category. But this is kind of fun...

Puddings, Pant Slings, Near Things

by | Feb 23, 2012 | Blog Archive

I wrote this for the “Facts & Arguments” page of the Globe & Mail. Their submission guidelines say that an editor will get in touch within a month, should they wish to publish a piece. It’s been over a month and I’ve heard nothing—so I...

I Love Scott Bakker

by | Feb 16, 2012 | Blog Archive

Scott would probably want me to interrogate my affection for him, because (he might say) our brains are tricksy, pattern-seeking, biased organs, and the more fervently we believe in the veracity of the decisions we think we make with them, the more deluded we are. Or,...

Taking the Bull by the Horns

by | Feb 9, 2012 | Blog Archive

“At the moment she is making slow but encouraging progress on her fourth [novel], a re-telling of Beauty and the Beast via Minoan Crete.” You’ll find this sentence over in the “Author” section of my website. It has also appeared, paraphrased, in several brochures,...

And They All Lived Credibly Ever After

by | Jan 20, 2012 | Blog Archive

My relationship with happy endings has been on-again, off-again, as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, season 6, episode 16, has reminded me. I’m just getting to the series now. For a decade I’ve been going to genre conventions and passing right by the slayer swag—though I...