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My Kickstarter, and my LJ. 20 Apr 2012 | 03:28 am
So...hi. Long time no chat. Pull up a chair. Can I get you a drink? As you've no doubt noticed, I'm not posting here any more. The blogging bug has relented, and what I have to say I'm sa...
The dildos of pre-modern Europe. 19 Nov 2011 | 12:21 pm
Big ole blog post by me at my new digs.
The first shared universes. 11 Sep 2011 | 04:36 am
New article by me over on io9.com about the the first shared universes.
Byron and the start of fandom. 7 Sep 2011 | 01:59 am
I've got a short piece on Byron and the beginnings of fandom over at Warren Ellis' blog.
Changes coming. 5 Sep 2011 | 02:40 am
Going to be shifting over to blogging at jessnevins.com in the near future.
The Husband's Message 22 Feb 2011 | 03:35 am
In a recent review of The Word Exchange (W.W. Norton, 2011, ISBN # 978-0393079012) Michael Dirda wrote "This isn't gaily ribboned Camelot or Merrie Olde England...this is a wintry February world of co...
"Ain't I A Woman?" 19 Feb 2011 | 03:46 am
Many of us read, at some point or another, Sojourner Truth's speech, "Ain't I A Woman?" For those of you not from this country or who were never exposed to it, here's the speech as generations of kids...
Tim Stapleton's No Insignificant Part. 20 Jan 2011 | 03:35 am
Tim Stapleton's No Insignificant Part: The Rhodesia Native Regiment and the East Africa Campaign of the First World War does yeoman's work in bringing to light the experience of native Africans servin...
File this under "Papers I'll Never Write." 18 Jan 2011 | 04:32 am
Which is a mental category I (like most other writers) have for ideas which intrigue me and could potentially be fruitful, but which I will never have the time to write. (Or put together for a present...
Today's excerpt from Fantastic Victoriana 13 Jan 2011 | 06:50 am
over at the Beyond Victoriana blog is Charles E. Averill's Buena Rejon, from an unusually interesting novelette.
