Over at Fantasy Magazine: Eliza Dushku has had the opportunity to dazzle us with the range of her acting over the course of this season. She did not. In this final episode she had one more chance to shine. She had a great example before her — Alan Tudyk as Alpha struggling with the different [...]
My thoughts on the latest Dollhouse episode are over at Fantasy. One aspect that bothered me that I didn’t mention was the character of Mellie/November. Mellie, specifically. Ever since Mellie first showed up I have been super-annoyed and wary of her character. In the beginning because I am so over the I Am Desperately In [...]
*eyes all the people on her f-list who she knows totally rocks the steampunk clothing and jewelry and whatnot* All of you click over to Fantasy and show off your fancy, fabulous selves in the stempunk fashion show. None of you are shy (why else would you be wearing that corset?) and you know you [...]
We’ve had some success with our TV columns and I would like to do more to cover TV on Fantasy. However, I do not want to bombard our readers with a bunch of TV coverage all the time. I think confining it to the end of the week is a good, and maybe not one [...]
At Comicon this weekend there was a special “last minute” appearance by Daniel Dae Kim who plays Jin on Lost. I am assuming it was kept under wraps to avoid prematurely leaking that Jin was returning to the show even though he got all blowed up. Before his autograph session the press folks got a [...]
I’ve been toying with the idea of syndicating webcomics on Fantasy for a while, but don’t know a lot about what’s out there. Anyone have suggestions for good webcomics with small profiles that might benefit from a bit more exposure? You can, of course, suggest your own.
The Best Story of 2008 poll over at Fantasy is live. You can vote for up to three stories and the author who penned the one with the most votes gets chocolate. Fancy chocolate. Readers have a chance to win something, too. Go make a comment on any of last year’s stories and you’re entered [...]
I’m particularly stoked about this week’s content because most of it has been about one of my favorite things — the Christmas Carol TV Trope. You know how a lot of shows have done episodes that use the plot of A Christmas Carol? It’s frighteningly common. And when they don’t get around to that, they [...]
In response to yesterday’s discussion at Fantasy on why people don’t comment on fiction as much (which is still ongoing and has followup questions from me, so please keep participating!), some people brought up the idea of having some sort of voting system on a story — like a thumbs up they could press if [...]
The time of year when a girl’s fancy turns to finding more interns. This semester I had three awesome interns who are full of interny goodness. I get to keep two of them, but I’d like a few more, including one who can do marketing stuff. If you know a college or high school student [...]
I think that Genevieve and I are probably the only people in our circle of friends who will find her column today (Fantasy’s Guide to Holiday Fashion) uproariously hilarious. Back in the day we both worked for S/h/e/F/i/n/d/s, though she was a writer and I was a web monkey. We actually first met at a [...]
Today’s Blog for a Beer: This week Silvia Moreno-Garcia gave us an excellent primer on the many ways in which fantasy filmmakers completely mess up Pre-Columbian cultures by lumping them all into one group, assigning practices and beliefs they don’t have, and generally turning them into random brown savages. Because who cares, right? They’re all [...]
If you live in or near NY, then you should definitely check out the steampunk production of Twelfth Night going on right now. I wrote it up for Fantasy Magazine earlier this week. There are pictures, go see! Though they don’t do the design complete justice. They’re using a quote from my write up on [...]
Fiction: The Plagiarist by Alex Rose. Very interesting piece this week. Thing: In case you hadn’t noticed, we’re back to doing an author spotlight for every story that goes up. The lovely Ellen B. Wright has been in charge of those and is doing an excellent job of taking them beyond the standard questions I’d [...]
Brilliant post today from Genevieve: 10 Fantasy Movies That Ruined It for the Rest of Us. List includes Willow, Labyrinth, Somewhere in Time, and Excalibur, among others. Excalibur will always hold a special place in my heart, as Scott McPartland had us watch that movie when doing a lecture on Arthurian myth. It was fantastically bad, [...]
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I'm a writer, most often committing acts of genre (fantasy, science fiction, and other stretches of the imagination). You can find my short stories in many and various magazines and anthologies and podcasts. In addition to being a writer I also engage in activism and fandom -- often both at once.
