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After I moved home in 2008 to live with my Daddy, I did a lot of odd jobs and freelance work before I found full-time journalism work again....

 The former podcast editor for Arvan Eleron has moved on to other, full-time work. I've taken that over, turning video episodes of Arvan...

I've loved KJ Charles since I stumbled across her historical fiction a few years ago, starting with Band Sinister , a sort of frothy gen...

I ran across Incognegro: A Graphic Mystery , story by Mat Johnson, art by Warren Pleece, and letters by Clem Robins, in the graphic novels s...

  “After reviewing the Constitution and the rules we must follow, the administration team determined those works/persons were not eligible.”...

Scroll down this post for the latest updates. For roundups of my 2023 activities in podcasting, gaming, videos, etc., please see here and h...

Scrolling Mastodon on Dec. 19, I saw a post from Nicholas Whyte about the 2024 Glasgow WorldCon planning a consultative (nonbinding) online...

 Duolingo sent me its 2023 Year in Review assessment (despite there being nearly a month left of 2023, grrr). I'm a top 1% Spanish learn...

Skiffy and Fanty was offered an electronic Advanced Reader Copy of Uncanny Vows ( The Huntsmen , Book 2, out today, Nov. 28) for review, bu...

I saw Marcie R. Rendon ’s Murder on the Red River on the New Books shelves at my lovely local library (written in 2017, republished in 2022...

Yesterday, I happened to hear two podcasts in immediate succession that had some unexpected congruencies. The first was LeVar Burton Reads...

I spotted The Hopkins Manuscript on the New Books shelves at my local library. This is actually a 2023 trade paperback version of a 1939 no...

I requested Grease Monkeys: The Heart and Soul of Dieselpunk from NetGalley on a whim, despite my towering TBR pile, firstly because of the...

(Hit the link above, then scroll down to Updates for my latest reviews posted on the Skiffy and Fanty blog!)  I joined the crew of the Skiff...