The Literary Assassin

 from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, January 1856: "Flounces are universally worn, the number resting entirely at the option of the...

In one episode of The Law According to Lidia Poët, our heroine mentions a device called a "volumetric glove." Because standard Goo...

Time flies when you're busy.  I feel as if I've been moving along steadily on this project and look up to find it's been over a ...

 I'm reviving this blog as a place to store the record of my making a 1855-ish dress, as part of my research into 1850's clothing.  ...

Is there a rule or convention or expectation that every installment in a series of novels has to be the same type of story? I mean what tro...

If this Soska sisters had wanted to be really subversive they would have ended the movie with Billy and Mary living happily in Berlin or Arg...

I'm feeling the need to tell on myself a bit here, because once again it's convention season, and every year, every con worth its s...

Look, I don't do memes. I've turned my nose up at going with the crowd since I was eight or ten, at least. And that, I suspect, ha...

Those of you who've known me a long time may remember when, lo these many years ago, me and a friend cosplayed Darla and Drusilla in the...

Today I saw  this article pop up in my Facebook feed ,  reiterating the old chestnut about how American Indians practiced blood-binding, or ...

This is self-defense 101, kids. Learn how and when to overcome the social expectation to be friendly with everyone. Predators rely on that c...

Found a post from 2004 when I was still on Critters. This is some of the contradictory feedback I got on one of my first stories, "Gala...