Category: News update

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…

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…

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 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

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.

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.

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.

The game on Saturday went really well. We lost by a whole lot of points, but we played every jam like it was a new game and fought the whole way through. It was a lot of fun, I learned a bunch and enjoyed working with my team. Rat Lab and the Outcasts also KILLED…

Dear internet, I will indeed play derbies this coming Saturday. Rat Lab (all female rookie team for Rat City) vs Puget Sound Castaways (all male B team for one of the best men’s teams in the world). It would be lovely if you could come. I shall tell you on Sunday how it went!

Recently I spent time with a PUPPY! Which made me long for a puppy of my own. Mike is being is awesome sauce referee in Duluth for Division 2 Roller Derby Playoffs and this seemed like a good opportunity to fill the puppy-less hole in my life. Behold! I even fit into the box it…