Author: Liz

  • Award Season is Coming!

    Award Season is Coming!

    Someone much smarter than I am pointed out that the work I do creating Things Without Arms and Without Legs and a few other side projects could make me eligible for Best Fan Artist categories! I had a look at the Hugo Awards and it certainly seems to fit the criteria, I don’t make a…

  • Cranky Ladies of History

    Cranky Ladies of History

    WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that the following blog post mentions a deceased Aboriginal icon by name. I’m honored to be part of the Cranky Ladies of History anthology from Fablecroft coming out in March 2015

  • Adventures, interviews, mini-comics @ artshows, oh my!

    Adventures, interviews, mini-comics @ artshows, oh my!

    Over at the THINGS I’m trying to share snippets of my adventures in DC land and World Fantasy Con in comic form. It’s a little bit experimental and whimsical & you can tell drawings were done at crazy times of night or morning, but it’s fun to challenge myself. It’s an interview bonanza from this…

  • World Fantasy Con – Change of Reading time & more interviews by this gal

    World Fantasy Con – Change of Reading time & more interviews by this gal

    My reading at World Fantasy Con has been popped forward by half an hour! 10:30pm – 11:00 p.m. Thursday 6 November in the Arlington Room I’m excited. I’m heading out to Washington DC today and I’m excited about that too. My parents lived there in the 70s and I’ve wanted to visit the Vietnam War…

  • World Fantasy Con and other news

    World Fantasy Con and other news

    I love World Fantasy Con. I have a reading on the first day at World Fantasy Con – 11:00 p.m. – 11:30 p.m. Thursday 6 November in the Arlington Room. Please come along. I think I might read Augustus Clementine. It’s an Oscar Wilde inspired fairytale about a roller skate and will be coming out in…

  • Wherever you are, there’s a way you can help the Rat City Roller Girls

    Wherever you are, there’s a way you can help the Rat City Roller Girls

    First I write about my body parts, scroll down to see a comprehensive list of ways you can help Rat City. As you may have noticed roller derby has become something of a consuming passion for me. It’s challenged me and rewarded me in ways I never thought possible. Our derby sisters in Portland, the…

  • New Clarion Blog posts added to the list

    New Clarion Blog posts added to the list

    New month, new folks have been found and added to the list. As always, please let me know if there’s something I’m missing or links have changed. E. Jay O’Connell & Michael Belfiore wrote about their Clarion West 1994 experience. And a collection of posts by Carmen Maria Machado – Clarion 2012

  • Port Scandalous Strait Shooters vs Rat Lab on October 25

    Port Scandalous Strait Shooters vs Rat Lab on October 25

    Wohoo! Rat Lab will be playing the Port Scandalous Strait Shooters on Saturday 25 October. If you happen to be in (or feel like heading over to) Sequim come and see us play. Doors open at 6pm. Tickets are $10 in advance $12 at the door. I’m excited.

  • Soft Feather Dance now live on Apex

    Soft Feather Dance now live on Apex

    If you’d like to read one of my love letters to Oscar Wilde’s fairytales now is a great time to head over to Apex Magazine and read Soft Feather Dance for free.

  • New Mega Clarion Resource Update!

    New Mega Clarion Resource Update!

    This month brings lots of new content over on the Clarion resource page. Blog posts by Harry Markov, Kayla Whaley, Martin Cahill, A.J. Fitzwater, Marian Womack and Vida Cruz.