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Photobombs . . . 1915 Style!
My husband is currently compiling a book about his great-great-grandfather, Konrad Nahrung, who emigrated to Australia from Germany back in the 19th Century. Most of the book consists of an annotated...
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A Mystery! A Mystery Made of Books!
It’s been quiet over here in the Land of Deadline Hell — quiet online at least — but I’m popping my head out because this story is too delightful to resist. Two delicate paper sculptures made from old...
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Cleaning Out the Cobwebs
Seven months. Really? Seven months since my last proper post — one that wasn’t simply announcing a new episode of The Writer and the Critic — that’s just … wow. I’m not entirely sure how it happened....
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Bad Feminist: An Unexpected Case Study
Over the past few months of my blog hiatus, I did a lot of thinking about feminism and gender issues, with particular attention paid to writing, authors and the publishing industry. After all, there...
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False Equivalence: An Amusing Illustration by Jim C. Hines
Back in January, when I wasn’t blogging, one of my perpetually open tabs was this post by Jim C. Hines in which he attempted to reproduce the ways in which females are often posed on genre book covers....
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How busy are you?
Because I am only busy and not crazy-busy right now, I actually had time to read and digest an excellent article about self-imposed busy-ness by Tim Krieder. It’s nothing I didn’t already know, but a...
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What Makes Kirstyn Happy
Overall, I’ve been a tad grumpy these past few weeks. Too much stuff on the boil, too many New Shiny Things I’d rather be doing, not enough time in the world to execute even half of my Cunning Plans....
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It’s Surprise Gift Day!
I love surprises and today was apparently the day for them. I received in the mail a Haigh’s Giant Chocolate Frog and a gorgeous card from a lovely new academic friend in Adelaide by way of thanks for...
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A Poem for Ben on Day 23
The tyranny of the blank page is a farce is a myth is a lie is what we talk about when we talk about doubt about dismay about the ever diminishing returns It is not about the page It is about us...
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Valé Smudge
January 1996 ~ November 2015 She was my first cat. There had been several family cats growing up (one of them more “mine” than the others), but she was the first I’d adopted as an adult. The first for...
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