By the Salish Sea

Charlie Bean, best and brightest, 2019 - 2026. Kelley and I are heartbroken and his brother George is bewildered. But don't be sad for Charlie. Every minute of his life was a miracle, and he knew he was loved. Go hug your beasties, your sweetie, your kids. Life is precious—but it is short.

38 years ago today I met and fell instantly and irrevocably in love with Kelley (you may not believe it, but it's true). 38 years later, we're living the life that bloomed from that moment. Every day is a miracle. Here's that story in photos (updated).

Huh. 👀 Apparently Here Theatre has a 'world-bending new play,' "Fahrenheit Ammonite", by Kit Lazaroo, inspired by Fahrenheit 451 and AMMONITE and Watership Down (!!). Now playing at the University of Tasmania @utas.edu.au The world is a very strange place...

Did you love AMMONITE? Then you'll want the new edition with new cover *and* new content! New content? Yes! The prequel, a story of when a native herder and Mirror first meet in dangerous circumstances and set off the events that lead, years later, to Marghe arriving on planet Jeep...

New editions of two of my novels. Not just spiffy new covers but delicious new content. I'll tell you more about that closer to the time. But you won't have to wait long: they're coming soon. Oh, yes indeed. Very sooooooon....

Thursday's Pride celebration centred on the Aud novels at the National Nordic Museum is cancelled. Kelley's stepfather is hospitalised with metastatic inoperable cancer. We're scrambling to fix his house and sort a care team to allow him to be discharged to home hospice. Expect slow communication...

June is Pride month rainbows everywhere. A visiting alien might be forgiven for thinking that being queer was something universally celebrated and rejoiced in by all, with no stigma or negative consequences even a possibility. They might mistake our world for Fairyland. We do not live in Fairyland.

Tomorrow—Tuesday 7pm—I'm at Elliott Bay Book Company talking with Ray Nayler about his new book, PALACES OF THE CROW, a fascinating exploration of all things cooperative, competitive, inter-species, and environmental—hatred and hope, ferocity and forgiveness—in a time of war. Join us!

A sneaky clue relating to an unexpected invitation to journey to the heart of Empire accepted by Kelley and I earlier this year. And also a Very Wrong (if you under the constitutional government of the UK) Early Medievalisation of the symbols of power. Enjoy :)

Updates on her latest SHE IS HERE Reviews, gardening plans, cryptic publishing hints, and upcoming events in Seattle: a conversation with Ray Nayler at Elliott Bay Books and a Pride celebration at the National Nordic Museum focused on the glorious Norwegian (and Seattle) queerness of the Aud books.

Early Medieval scribes and Pictish stone carvers were really good at depicting animals—in profile, and not moving. So when trying to create Early-Medieval style beasties like otters, imbued with personality and moving like curious children in endless play, it's no surprise things get...interesting.

Early Medieval scribes and Pictish stone carvers were really good at depicting animals—in profile, and without much movement. So when trying to create Early-Medieval style beasties imbued with personality and moving like curious children in endless play, it's no surprise things get...interesting.

THE CURVE OF THE WORLD is magnificent, a glorious vision of a wider reality: a world in which global commerce and fairness are not a contradiction in terms. It is the sum and summit of all Vonda McIntyre was as a writer and human being, her last, best gift to a world in sore need of hope. Out today.

Today Charlie and George are 7. In their prime. I celebrate with a series of hand-drawn images in a variety of styles illustrating their wildly divergent personalities.

Over on Patreon, a WHOLE NEW CHAPTER OF MENEWOOD never before seen—it's a really great chapter; broke my heart to cut it. On YouTube, video of my Project Censored interview. And in the garden, blooming flowers, a carpet of cherry blossom, and one grumpy cat...

A new interview up at Project Censored, centred around SHE IS HERE—the politics of cultural production, etc—but also a very interesting opportunity to revisit an old story through a political lens tuned to today: the difference between apocalypse now (sorry!) and apocalypse then, hope vs despair...

Did you know that more than 40% of SHE IS HERE is an original novella, "Many Things In Dumnet," that will form part of a *delicious* sword-swangin' alt-history fantasy lathered with love and lust, loss and longing, and lusty lesbians using music (and sex and swords) to save the world? You do now...