The Nov. 3 Round-up of what I found in my blog reading of interest to fans of middle grade sci fi/fantasy

 Happy Daylight Savings Time, fellow USians! May today's extra hour bring you joy (or whatever).   Here's are the middle grade sci f...

Beauty and the Beast: The Only One Who Didn't Run Away

Way back in 2005, Wendy Mass published the first in her Twice Upon a Time series--Rapunzel: the One With All the Hair. The second book, Sle...

"Christmas won't be Christmas without any [dead pigeon bones]"

Bonus points if you recognize the quotation (Amy in Little Women). Even more bonus points if you realized I was talking about the very dece...

The Publishers Weekly list of Best Books--with four mg sff books making it on

 Best Books of the Year season is here, with Publishers Weekly presenting their list.   I of course zoomed in on the children's books, a...

Why I vote

Back in 2008, a group of bloggers organized a day on which they gathered together posts about why voting matters.   They're doing it aga...

stream of consciousness: updates

this was supposed to have been posted on the first of this month!  i'm not sure what happened, but here goes again:) *** a lot has been ...

The River of No Return (The Jaguar Stones, Book 3)

For those who are not familiar with The Jaguar Stones series, by J & P Voelkel, its the story of what happens when the Mayan Death Lords...