Elizabeth Schechter

And now… we wait. What are we waiting for? Last week, I sat down with the neurosurgeon. She walked into the room and asked, “Do you have your phone?” Me: “Yes.” Her: “Good. Take a picture of this. I want you to see what we’re talking about.” So I have a photo on my phone of my spine, and of the disc that has breached containment. (Surgeon: “See that bulge? It should NOT look like that.”) I…

The ball is still rolling, and I don’t have any firm answers yet. Tomorrow, I will sit down with the neurosurgeon, and we’ll see where things go from there. I have my records and my imaging discs, and I’m about as ready as I can be, and I really just kind of want to go in and say “I’m broken. Fix me.” Can you tell I’m just so DONE with this? Once I have this appointment, I’ll be able to make…

I had another pain management appointment today, and the ball is rolling. What ball? The one that involves a referral to a neurosurgeon for spinal surgery to relieve the pressure on my sciatic nerve. My pain doctor and I are in agreement — surgery is the best option for me. Which means that I’m now on crunch time. I NEED to finish King of Swords and Six More Weeks of Witches as soon as humanly…

“Clever Headline Goes Here.” Otherwise known as “this is your brain on sciatica pain.” I thought I pulled a muscle exercising. So I did what you usually do when you pull a muscle — anti-inflammatory medication, heat and ice, gentle stretching. Then the pins-and-needles started, and I hied myself off to the orthopaedist. Ortho set me up with six weeks of physical therapy and sent me to see a pain…

I took a class last week, and now I have homework. I need to redo a lot of what goes on behind the scenes for my self-published titles. So over the next few weeks, I’ll be redoing many things that you probably will never notice, and one thing you might. The many things you probably won’t notice are the metadata and keywords, which help people find my books when they search online. The one thing…

Friday night, we went out to dinner, and I made SURE that we were home in time to watch Artemis come home. And once she was down and safe, I posted something to my social media. And… it certainly took off. I’ve never had a post ever that gained the traction this one did. Friends have been tagging me when they see it, so I know how far it’s gone. And I’ve tripped on one person who stole the post…

I’m writing this up while I watch the Artemis II flyby of the Moon, and I really, REALLY need someone to say “And now… the back side of Luna!” I doubt anyone will (or if they did, I missed it.) Screenshot from my other monitor. I keep saying I’m tired of living in unprecedented times, but for this unprecedented time? I’ll take it. The last time we went to the Moon, I was eight months old. And…

I was writing up the description for my appearance on SFF News and Interviews this Thursday, and described it as fun, weird and slightly random. Which, I realize now, is me in a nutshell. Not that I mind. It makes things more interesting and far more entertaining. For me, anyway. Last week was a lot of catching up, although not nearly as much as I’d have liked. Some interesting bits in an “I…

I got home from ICFA yesterday, and promptly fell over. The afterparty was amazing, there was unfiltered sake, and I learned a thing — I am not to be trusted with a bubble shooter. I have NO idea who handed this to me — it was dark on the pool deck, for all that everyone was wearing glowy flower crowns. But I reverted to the relative age of five, and there was much giggling and many, MANY…

The 2025 Lord Ruthven Award honoring excellence in vampire literature, media and scholarship was awarded on March 21st, 2026 at the International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts, held in Orlando, FL. The winners of this year's award are:

Fiction: Hungerstone, by Kat Dunn (Zando)

Media: Sinners. Written and Directed by Ryan Coogler (Warner Brothers, Proximity Media)

Non-Fiction: Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World, by John Blair (Princeton University Press)

My brain, right now: “Event complete. Commence prep for ICFA. Warning. Caffeine levels insufficient.” We just finished our weekend Renaissance Faire at the Oviedo Mall, and now I have two days to do everything that needs to be done in order to pack for ICFA, then a morning to actually PACK and get on the road. Now, it’s not far from my house to ICFA, so getting there isn’t a problem. My problem…

It hasn’t been a week yet, and I swear that I’m still dreaming. If I am, do NOT pinch me! Let me explain. The 11th annual Self-Published Fantasy Blog Off has started. This is my third time entering SPFBO, and I honestly had no expectations other than possibly getting some new reviews. I entered Written in Water three years ago, and Counsel of the Wicked two years ago. This year, I entered The…

I was originally thinking of having the title of this post be “Rabbit Rabbit,” because it’s the first post of the month. Then I was thinking of having it be “Busy, Busy,” because I AM. So I compromised and now it’s Busy Rabbit. Which honestly sounds like a cereal commercial — “Busy rabbit! Naps are for kids!” Naps, by the way, are wasted on the young. March is going to be one of those “Why did…

I was originally thinking of having the title of this post be “Rabbit Rabbit,” because it’s the first post of the month. Then I was thinking of having it be “Busy, Busy,” because I AM. So I compromised and now it’s Busy Rabbit. Which honestly sounds like a cereal commercial — “Busy rabbit! Naps are for kids!” Naps, by the way, are wasted on the young. March is going to be one of those “Why did…

The Coral Throne is now available wherever books are sold!

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