Birthday Presence

It's that day of the year again: I made it all the way around the sun without being eaten by a faster predator. I shall celebrate with cake later (my husband made me a cake!) and intend to be pretty much a sloth, but since I'm forty-mumble, I don't really need any more things. So, …

Audiobooks, 2020

Last year, the vast majority of my reading was short fiction, which was by design, as I’m really, really good at buying collections and anthologies and then a new anthology or collection comes out and repeat and suddenly I’ve read one story from eleven different books. This led to my Short Stories 366 Project last …

If You Liked (Faux Ho Ho)…

Continuing from yesterday, where I talked about some books I think you'd like if you enjoyed "Rear Admiral," I'm going to put my bookseller hat back on and make some recommendations the way I used to, and hopefully connect you with some new (or new-to-you) books to check out. The idea behind these posts is …

Short Stories 366:333 — “A Christmas Miracle,” by Fiona Riley

Rounding out the trio of awesome women-loving-women holiday romance novellas in All I Want for Christmas is Fiona Riley's "A Christmas Miracle" and once again, I have to underline just how much this book was the low-angst, warm-simmer anthology I needed so very much at the time I read it. This time, we get a …

#ShortStoryMonth Day Twenty-Two — Side Character Short Fiction Requests

Gimme This is a bit different today, in that I don't have short fiction to recommend, but rather short fiction I'd love to read that (as far as I know) doesn't exist. Side characters or secondary characters or just supportive folk that appear in a story that I wish I could read more about always …

F/Fa-la-la-la-la!

Okay, it's possible that is my saddest title yet, but hey. This year I had a bounty of awesome lady-love reads, and I figured I would do what I usually do and try to list of some of the great books I read this year, in case you're looking for gift ideas, or just awesome …