Ambling Along the Aqueduct

One of the points I strive to make when I'm teaching writing is that though the words on the page flow from the story in the writer'...

Amanda Filipacchi, in an op-ed for the New York Times , "Wikipedia's Sexism Toward Female Novelists," writes: I JUST noticed...

First off, congratulations to Nicola Griffith! The Lambda Literary Foundation has announced that she is one of two writers being awarded th...

The April 2013 issue of The Cascadia Subduction Zone is now available at http://thecsz.com . I have a long essay in it myself, one promp...

Aqueduct Press has just taken delivery of Squaring the Circle: A Pseudotreatise of Urbogony , which collects 26 fantastic tales by Gheorg...

I try to draw a line between criticism and violence. I do, actually, get online threats of actual violence. This isn't unusual for bl...

If you've read Kim Stanley Robinson's 2312, which has gotten probably more attention than any other book published in our genre last...

The Speculative Literature Foundation reports that The Older Writers Grant deadline is fast approaching: get your applications in by March 3...

When I publish a book, I can never be confident about any predictions I might hazard for its reception and sales. It's all guess work. N...

Tomorrow evening at 7 p.m., Deb Taber will be reading from and signing Necessary Ill at Seattle's University Bookstore ( 4326 Universi...

...for mating displays among ducks. Ducks are always so interesting at this time of year-- in their gorgeous nuptial plumage, in their beh...

In case you haven't heard, the Lambda Literary Foundation has announced the finalists for this year's Lambda Literary Awards. I'...

Heads up! This notice just arrived in my mailbox: Ragazine.CC is offering a $1,000.00 prize for the best piece of speculative fiction...

The James Tiptree Awards have just been announced, and Wow! Aqueduct has another winner! Joyous congratulations to Aqueductistas Kiini Ibu...

This week's column at Strange Horizons, by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, Woman's Work and Woman of Color at Work , grapples with the trickine...

 It's the last day of February, and a second shipment of the two books scheduled for March release has arrived here. So it's my p...

Yesterday, Salon.com reprinted from the Boston Review a lengthy, interesting review essay by Elizabeth Hand titled Femininjas: Women in f...

Aqueduct Press released two new e-book editions today. Richard Bowes's The Queen, the Cambion, and Seven Others (Conversation Pieces ...

Myth is the sea on which the Fantasy story floats. Legend is the wind that drives it. Its place of birth is the Fairy Tale. I...