Month: December 2014
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One last buzzing beehive for 2014
2014 goes out with one last buzzing beehive, because SOME people have taken exception to discovering Korrasami is canon!
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The Great Bone Walker Editing Spree has BEGUN
Editing has begun on Bone Walker, FINALLY! Also, don’t forget, the soundtrack is up for pre-order–and Dara’s giving away a freebie to one random pre-orderer! Clickie for the details!
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Christmas ebook roundup bonanza
Probable last book roundup of the year, but this is a doozy, thanks to a lot of online credit for tasty, tasty books, a couple of freebies, and a sale!
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Faerie Blood is BACK ON SALE
Putting Faerie Blood back on sale for the holidays–and for the coming of Bone Walker!
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Movie review: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, Second Viewing
Some thoughts after my second viewing of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies! Specifically, on Galadriel and Tauriel.
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Korrasami: I ship it
It should surprise none of you that my household ships Korrasami. And even aside from that aspect of the ending, we all loved the Korra finale in general. We’re going to miss this show!
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On women in fiction
It is articles like this one that remind me why the majority of my SF/F reading is books written by women: i.e., because that will give me a much stronger chance of a story in which there are in fact multiple female characters. Because the author of this article (herself an author) has it exactly…
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Murkworks.net accounts currently having trouble talking to Gmail
ATTENTION anybody who has a mail account on Murkworks.net: Right now we’re having issues with any of our accounts sending mail out to Gmail addresses. Gmail is incorrectly dinging us as a spam sender, and either shunting mail from us into Spam folders or else outright bouncing it. Needless to say, this is massively annoying.…
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Movie review: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Spoiler-heavy review of The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies! Picoreview: B- effort, but I still enjoyed myself immensely despite the flaws I found in it, and I WILL be seeing it again.
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Ereader review: Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Nook 7.0, by Barnes and Noble
My latest device review: this time, the new Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Nook 7.0, which is a longwinded way of saying “the new Samsung Nook”. Picoreview: not bad, but not really useful to non-B&N customers or people who need higher-powered tablets.