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  • The Controversy of Talent

    The Controversy of Talent

    Every now and then, I come across a professional creative throwing a fit about people using the word “talent.” These rants tend to fall along the lines of, “Talent isn’t real; you work really hard and learn to do the thing.” I saw another of these recently, and it made me decide to pull this…

  • Bad Book Reviews

    Bad Book Reviews

    Last week, I did a post about how people’s relationship with reading has evolved or, more accurately, devolved. How college professors are seeing more and more students incapable of completing a reading assignment, and how people on BookTok declare with pride that they skip huge chunks of every book they read. This week, I’m looking…

  • The New Illiteracy

    The New Illiteracy

    As an author, I have a particular interest in whether or not people are reading. As a member of society in general, though, the frustration runs much deeper than just “why aren’t people buying books?” The Old Illiteracy When I was a teenager, I worked as a cashier in a small grocery store. I specifically…

  • Books Are So Gay Now

    Books Are So Gay Now

    I don’t write romance novels, so my characters’ sexual orientations are rarely front and center in my stories. Nonetheless, I’ve always included queer characters in the worlds I write, because that’s the world I want to live in. But writing queer characters used to be a very different exercise than it is now… and it’s…

  • Deep Plotting and Continuity in Storytelling

    Deep Plotting and Continuity in Storytelling

    If you’ve read anything I’ve written or followed me on Bluesky for any amount of time, you probably already know what a hardcore Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan I am. But wanna know I secret? I resisted that show when it first came out. Like, for years. The movie (which I also hadn’t watched at…