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Once upon a time, in the ancient age of 2014, I wrote a piece at SF Signal entitled “Silk Road Fantasy and Breaking the Great Wall of Europe”. In that...
Traveling Beyond Europe's Walls
Once upon a time, in the ancient age of 2014, I wrote a piece at SF Signal entitled “Silk Road Fantasy and Breaking the Great Wall of Europe”. In that...
My Italian papa was from the Old Country, a godly place where “men were men” and “women knew how to behave”. In his mind, the purpose for my feminine existence...
What Underlies Our Conversations About Witches
My Italian papa was from the Old Country, a godly place where “men were men” and “women knew how to behave”. In his mind, the purpose for my feminine existence...
It’s fantastical, illogical, ambitious, somewhat irreal, even unsettling—you may have read the literary strange in all its jarring, but just didn’t know it by name as ‘slipstream’. I first met...
The Radical Nature of Slipstream Fiction
It’s fantastical, illogical, ambitious, somewhat irreal, even unsettling—you may have read the literary strange in all its jarring, but just didn’t know it by name as ‘slipstream’. I first met...
Rebecca E. Treasure: When I consider the concepts of mental health and writing, my thoughts first go to rejections. After all, that's where the most obvious ups and downs of...
Self-Compassion Toolkit: A Conversation on Mental Health and Writing
Rebecca E. Treasure: When I consider the concepts of mental health and writing, my thoughts first go to rejections. After all, that's where the most obvious ups and downs of...
I grew up loving fantasy, and at some point my friends started introducing me to science fiction with fantasy elements. Whether it was the genetically-created dragons of Anne McCaffery’s Pern...
The Line Between Science Fiction and Fantasy Is Blurring, and I'm Into It
I grew up loving fantasy, and at some point my friends started introducing me to science fiction with fantasy elements. Whether it was the genetically-created dragons of Anne McCaffery’s Pern...
Earlier this year Julie K. Brown, an award-winning Miami Herald investigative reporter, tweeted words that ignited rage across the literary world: “So I’m going to slammed for this … from...
How Can You Be?
Earlier this year Julie K. Brown, an award-winning Miami Herald investigative reporter, tweeted words that ignited rage across the literary world: “So I’m going to slammed for this … from...
Making up your story as you go along has been variously called being a pantser, a gardener, or a discovery writer. Whatever you call it, this approach is what works...
Getting Unstuck
Making up your story as you go along has been variously called being a pantser, a gardener, or a discovery writer. Whatever you call it, this approach is what works...