life goal: infamous recluse
In my everyday writing, I am considerably looser than I am here. I use more contractions. I am more likely to use slang and netspeak. I am a fiend for all-caps, and I regret no gifs.
The more I think about it, the more I wish there was a Letters section in this. From the old Regency/Victorian magazines that I stole this format from, to the loose piles of old apazines that my mother collected in big cardboard boxes and were never put away after the final move to my childhood home, letters have been a fascinating gateway into the minds of not just the zine's staff or author, but the entire community surrounding it.
We have made it to issue 2! What further wonders are in store?
As I sometimes do, I'm doing another experiment in creating consistent content for patrons -- this time, I'm creating a brief weekly zine through Patreon called The Minor Hours and Small Thoughts Magazine, in the style of the strange and random early Regency and Victorian publications previously mentioned on the blog. Mine will be filled... Continue Reading →
A few weeks ago I spent longer than I should browsing through *The lady's magazine : or entertaining companion for the fair sex, appropriated solely to their use and amusement.* A publication that started in the late 1700s, it was an amalgam of -- or early precursor to -- society pages, literary magazines, joke books, local newspapers, educational supplements, and sewing pattern distributors.
Doing primary source research sometimes leads to spectacular finds. In an 1809 volume of The Lady's Magazine, I came across... well, a science fiction story.
I have a new short story out, the first since before some Big Life Shit that went down a few years ago. Enjoy "They're Made Out of Corn", out today from Daily Science Fiction, a continuation/pastiche of Terry Bisson's "They're Made Out of Meat."
It's a rotten time to be a writer. Leaving aside the creativity-crushing effects of indoor monotony, the usual mechanics of the publishing business are showing their fault lines: authors can't go on book tours, covers can't catch consumers' eyes as they perambulate around shops, and while ebook and audio bundles could be a cool thing,... Continue Reading →
Here's a breakdown of how I think about food, and then how I use that thinking to cook around my pantry...
I'm in the middle of outlining a romance novel that has a lot of potential endings -- and several of those possible ending are polyamorous in nature. It's making me realize one of the weird ways fiction doesn't necessarily mirror reality.
Katherine Crighton 