Yesterday was a long day, with one sick little girl in Emergency at the local hospital (all fine now) and… no, that’s basically it for all that happened yesterday.
Still, if I don’t keep doing these posts, my post-it of saved links will fill up and explode!
Liz Myles has added to the Cranky Ladies blog tour with her great post: Ten Great Military Leaders, Probably Cranky Ones that points out several women of history who were better military leaders than Boudicca.
I have a new post up too, over at The History Girls, on the poet Sulpicia.
Did I MENTION that we funded this week? Oh yeah, baby. Night Terrace aren’t doing too badly either.
Over at Book Smugglers, Ana is pondering on History, Fandom and Masters of Science Fiction.
Foz Meadows does another of her great snarky takedowns, this one at yet another article about the troubles with YA by someone who doesn’t read or understand the YA publishing phenomenon.
Sarah Rees Brennan also wrote an amazing piece about the way female YA authors are treated – and her own personal experiences of being belittled and shamed for her history as a teen fanfic writer before she became a published author. It’s a raw, important essay.
Historical romance author Jeannie Lin (who specialises in romances set in Tang Dynasty China) talks about how her worst selling novel, The Lotus Palace, recently became a best seller!
Kameron Hurley (who has been writing some great stuff across the internet lately) did an inspiring International Women’s Day post at Angry Robot, talking about standing up for yourself online, why Joanna Russ was so very important, and how it actually does get better for women in publishing and sharing their voices generally.
In Keep Calm and Carry On, Marie Brennan talks about how the wave of flamewars, slapfights and angry shouting about gender issues on the internet are a sign of our community’s health, not its doom, and notes that this is not a phenomenon unique to the science fiction community. Good, sensible stuff.
“Keep Usefully Angry and Carry On Working For Improvement!”
Mahvesh Murad talks about the spec fic by women that she intends to read this year – a wonderfully diverse list of books, and so many on there that I am excited by too!
Emma Newman wrote about her young love for Star Trek, and why Melinda Snodgrass is her hero.
Kate Elliott brought the positive to the internet by asking Twitter followers to tell her what they liked about their own writing.
Here’s a recipe for a coffee cake in a mug.