a better place

For those of you who follow and enjoy the writing of Seanan McGuire, the author recently announced that she just made the transition too full-time writer. Yes, she had a day-time job besides her writing, the massive output of which she apparently had managed by skipping on that thing called 'sleep'. Why is she now finally making the jump? Because of the Affordable Care Act. The country will be a better place because of the ACA and of its storytellers.

coyote rising

"I don't know what to do. I don't know where to go."
"Nobody does," he said softly. We just have to make it up as we go along." He gave her a hug, kissed her gently on the cheek. "It's your world now. Go find it... and come back safe."

Over the years, I've read tales of Allen Steele's newly colonized planet Coyote as it asserts its independence from Earth, but I did so only in bits and pieces as I came across them in magazines. I recently decided I should read the whole thing, and in order too, so tonight I finished the 2nd volume, "Coyote Rising". Recommended.