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Just so folks know, December is PUFFS month. It's when I released AFRO PUFFS ARE THE ANTENNAE OF THE UNIVERSE 5 years ago. There were interviews, reviews, and buzzy things all over the place. I am going to be re-sharing them. Maybe every. single. one. Can't say you weren't warned.

Right now I've got the 2nd book in a fantasy trilogy out. People are saying things about the 1st 2 like "an immersive experience for lovers of folkloric stories." Would you know about that if I didn't tell you? No, you'd be sitting there eating a McRib. Because the corporations will spend millions making sure you know the McRib is back. I don't have millions, so

The SFF Librarian Reviews, Winter 2025 – Ancillary Review of Books

The one rule of cactus club: when you get blooms you share blooms. Look at this absolute beaut!

This last quarter of 2025 has been a solid winner reading-wise. Every book I picked up has driven my whee share up & significantly improved forecasts for my own creativity in 2026. Examples: The Inconvenient God; Lagoonfire; When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain; Dispelling Fantasies... TBR is love.

Indie books that have rocked my world: THERE IS NO LOVELY END by Patty Templeton In the opening scene I got solid Americana, witchcraft, a jail brawl, an epic vendetta, a little terror and some surprising laughs. SOLD. Templeton doesn't write, she skates, seamlessly going from mood to macabre mood.

Guest Post: We Live Here – Read Indie Fantasy

Mountain Dew out of wine glasses as beef jerky a l'orange is prepared. In praise of those out there living their best lives amidst uncalled-for fuckery fully foul.

On Oct 9th a car veered across the road toward where my car was parked behind another car. The veering car hit the car in front hard enough to push it into mine, crumpling my front end. Thankfully I wasn't in the car. Been dealing with insurance companies ever since. Got word yesterday that they've decided to total my car out. My car was 15 years old; be lucky to get bus fare for it. I'll likely do a fundraiser. I can't be without reliable transport. Too many people depend on me. So heads up.

Up with the sun if for no other reason than to confirm the Earth still exists despite the fires fuckers set.

If you know nothing else about Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan, know that over the course of several days the greatest cinematic marketing campaign EVER graced newspapers, each day an image of the Enterprise above a different tagline, culminating on opening day with this full page beauty. I have each yellowing ad in a scrapbook somewhere. Part of my soul has wanted to create something worthy of touching the hem of that campaign.

Now that the book is out, here are A's to possible Q's: It can be read as a standalone. The series ends definitively at book 3. In a fight between Bog the Unsmiling & Conan the Barbarian, Bog would simply wait for Conan to die of infection from one of his many previous untreated wounds. Bog knows the value of alcohol & a bandage. Is there a chance the Khumalos might cross paths with Milo Jetstream? As our teacher Mr Spock is fond of saying, I'd like to think there always are...possibilities.