New essay up on patreon for the story that Ray Bradbury considered the quintessential Bradbury story, free to read for patrons and non-patrons alike!

You’ll notice that this isn’t titled “New Patreon Essay” because uhhhh I forgot to post it at the time and now it’s over a month old. In any case, here it is! About Eddison’s The Worm Ouroboros, free to read for patrons and non-patrons alike.

New essay up on patreon about the Book of Esther, free to read for patrons and non-patrons alike!

New essay up on patreon about Asimov’s first Foundation story, free to read for patrons and non-patrons alike!

Hi! Naomi here, just wanted to let anyone reading this know that Stone is now out! If you happened to catch this in the New Decameron on Patreon a couple years back, this is the same story, just cleaned up a bit, but if you didn’t (or if you just want a more cleaned up copy), you can get it now.

I didn’t co-write this one, I just edited it, so let me tell you a little bit about why it’s so great.

• Do you like gender-nonconforming heroines? Do you like gender-nonconforming heroines who aren’t fighters? Who are physically and visibly big and strong? Who exist alongside other more feminine women without the narrative implying that they’re better because they’re gender-nonconforming? Of course you do.
• The material culture is so good. The material culture and the sense of place–I know that’s not what people usually mean when they talk about worldbuilding, but the setting feels so real and solid and specific, like you could just walk into it.
• The religion! Sometimes religion in fantasy feels kind of superficial and pasted on, but like, what if people actually took it seriously? What if it permeated the way they thought and felt about everything? Relatedly, this isn’t an explicitly Jewish book because it takes place in a secondary world, but oh boy is it Jewish.

Ever so often, people ask me for my website.  And at the moment, my options have been to give them a LiveJournal address where I haven’t posted since 2014, my twitter handle, or nothing.  Oh, or my tumblr!  I posted like four times, once about a facebook game, and three times where I made fun of ads for very expensive houses.

That’s assuming that I remember not to give them my geocities address.  Which I still remember by heart, despite not having logged in since Yahoo bought geocities in 1999.

Also, those people who are making that request are generally interested in writing related stuff, not in making fun of ads for expensive houses, or the Star Wars Role Playing Game stuff I posted about when I was in college.

Okay, one guy was interested in the Star Wars Role Playing stuff, but I’ve already sent him what I had left.

Point is, this is going to be an author website.  Eventually.  When I get around to it.  And when I figure out WordPress.  Any minute now, really.