Tag: books
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International Word Nerd Day
In Defense of Exactly the Right Word There’s a holiday for everything now, which is fitting—because naming things is one of humanity’s oldest tricks. Today, January 9, happens to be International Word Nerd Day, and if that makes you smile a little too knowingly, welcome. You’re among friends who get unreasonably excited about etymology, who…
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Happy National Science Fiction Day
National Science Fiction Day (today, January 2) feels like permission. Permission to look up from the practical, the predictable, the already-mapped—and ask, what if the universe has a sense of humor? I’ve loved science fiction for as long as I can remember. As a child, I was captivated by Star Trek: The Original Series—not just…
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Happy Festival of Unmentionable Thoughts
A Completely Appropriate Celebration for Fiction Writers Today, December 12, is the Festival of Unmentionable Thoughts, a holiday that sounds suspiciously made up but is, in fact, rigorously observed by anyone who writes fiction or poetry and has ever stared at a sentence thinking, If I leave this in, people will have questions. Writing does…
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Happy Pretend to Be a Time Traveler Day
Depending on where you live, you’re reading this in a different moment than I wrote it — hours into my future, or hours behind my present. That’s its own quiet form of time travel. So, in the spirit of Pretend to Be a Time Traveler Day, (happening on December 8), I’m hopping across those time…
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Happy Small Business Saturday
Support Actually Small Indie Authors — Because Apparently 499 Employees Still Counts as “Small” I woke up this morning to a parade of “Support Small Business!” ads… only to realize half of them were from companies with enough square footage to qualify as their own weather systems. I mean — 300+ employees?Corporate parking lots?A “brand…
A Heep of Words: Books by Alexandra Heep, Helena Parx, Lexa Drane 