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Can you create a slave? A review of Octavia Butler’s Kindred

Kat — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 13:35:09 +0000

[caption id="attachment_515" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Slave houses at the Laura Plantation in Louisiana"][/caption] I’ve been travelling across the South recently and wanted to read a book that would suit both my weird tastes and reflect some of the history of America. Being a Read more

Earthsea: an exercise in humility

Kat — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:28:06 +0000

Wow, it’s been a long time since I’ve posted on here. In this time I’ve read lots of great books and have been working on my own novel! Enough to keep me busy, that’s for sure. Lately I decided to read Ursula K Le Guin’s Earthsea series, consisting of A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Read more

World fantasy awards, draft swapping and Margo Lanagan

Kat — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:36:59 +0000

On the weekend I attended a draft swap meeting run by a dear friend of mine, Jan Cornall. Jan’s a great facilitator, she’s led a number of wonderful authors from first concept to publication, one of them being the award-winning fantasy author Margo Lanagan. We all met up in an enchanting Read more

So… you know that book called Twilight?

Kat — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:22:24 +0000

I have a problem. Every time I go to buy a fun, distracting book, I come home with a handful of depressing, literarti treatises on the misery of life. It’s not my fault. It’s just my natural persuasion; on my bookshelf As I Lay Dying sits next to Rape: A Love Story. When it comes to holiday Read more