Tag: Short Stories
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3 short stories in 30 days
That was the plan for Camp NaNoWriMo, and though I hit one of my major targets, I completely missed the other… Still, they’re new words I didn’t have a month ago! How it all started I thought it’d be fun to revisit the boys from Rise and Shine, my gay romcom series! I have so […]
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2021 writing recap
Another weird one: done! But I’m going to set all that aside and focus on my writing for a minute. I’ve hit another bunch of firsts; started, progressed, and finished some stories; met some fantastic people; and connected with more amazing readers! You can check out my 2020 recap first, or scroll on down to […]
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The Murderbot Diaries
TLDR: Robot hacks itself and watches soap operas, but the inconvenient humans keep endangering themselves. This science fiction series by Martha Wells is the most heartwarming, humane, and hilarious treatment of artificial intelligence I have come across. The prickly and sarcastic Security Unit – which secretly refers to itself as Murderbot – has hacked the […]
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My 2020 reading recap (with charts!)
The short version: Last year I read 45 books, fewer than expected which I put down to more time spent writing instead. Of the books I read, most were great: The biggest share fell into the fantasy genre, followed by scifi, then stories with prominent gay characters or storylines. I favoured physical books this year […]
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2020 has been a year…
If I sold a book for every time I heard the word ‘unprecedented’ in 2020, well, that’d be me done! Being real though, it’s been a hard year for so many and the impacts have been felt at all levels, from personal to global. I’ve already briefly discussed some things that helped me through the […]
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Year’s Best Aotearoa NZ SFF Vol 1
In this collection, Marie Hodgkinson has brought together 13 fantastic short stories from Kiwi authors, the first in an annual anthology series. I loved the variety of speculative fiction on display here, stories set in worlds both fantastical and familiar – some eerily so. Stories touching on topics that feel particularly close to home in […]
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