Every October I think, Darn it, should have posted about our scary books so instead of occasionally thinking that for the next two weeks here’s a skeleton’s handful of scary books all pretty much guaranteed to be a mistake to start reading after 10 p...

December 2024 Pomegranate Hearts. Hannah and Grackle, Lost in the Woods. The post Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 49 first appeared on Small Beer Press.

This is LCRW Cooking Columnist Nicole Kimberling’s sixth column for LCRW originally published in LCRW 32. Asparagus photo by Dawn Kimberling. A couple of years ago I happened to be in Europe during the Easter season. Specifically, I was right at the...

LCRW 48 has gone out into the world to subscribers, contributors, reviewers, readers, surprised people, & so on. I’ll put the table of contents below. I am almost sure it is final. Nicole Kimberling’s column is an especially good one and in keepi...

Joan Aiken’s daughter, Lizza, posted on Bluesky that today, September 4th, is Joan Aiken’s Centenary. Lizza keeps her excellent Wonderful World of Joan Aiken site going as well as ensuring new editions of Joan’s work keep coming out. I’m delighted to...

Good news for Anya Johanna DeNiro whose short novel OKPsyche has been chosen as the winner of the Blurred Boundaries Award at this year’s Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards. You can read more about the awards here and here are the rest of this year’s wi...

I was just listening to Alisa Alering talk with Lindsay Hunter about her debut novel, Smothermoss — which has a great cover — on Lithub and thought you might enjoy it, too. You might remember Alisa had a great story in a LCRW 43. Alisa Alering on Bei...

It’s about true, next issue of LCRW is taking the snail trail to the printer quite soon. Which means I should make an ebook and start getting the old team back together to mail this thing out. Ok, I’m going to need a safecracker and a driver . . . Th...

We arrived at the Quincy Marriott for Readercon a little after 1 p.m. on Saturday. I was relieved and delighted to immediately get into our room and take a break as there was a panel I wanted to see at 3 p.m., The Works of Naomi Mitchison, with Amal...

The NYT, not a paper I’ve given money to in years because despite their usually solid work I find them terrible on US politics — did they ever stop prevaricating and just state that Tr*mp lies? Ugh — and can be awful on minorities and trans people. T...