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Friday Links Are Eligible for Awards
John Scalzi has made a thread available for writers, artists, fans and professionals to declare their various Hugo-eligible work of the year. It’s a great resource for those who want to be reminded of...
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Friday Links has redefined the concept of ‘holiday’
Let’s just say I’m not getting in an awful lot of relaxing with the kids… I have managed to read a few blogs, though. Which is – progress? Of a sort? Gwenda Bond follows up on the...
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Friday Links is Not Invisible
A fascinating interview with Joanna Scanlan, actress from The Thick of it & Stella among other successful shows – she talks about how hard she had to fight to get an acting career at all, her...
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Friday Links Loves Me, She Loves Me Not
I seem to have forgotten how to blog. Massive things have been happening – it’s been a hectic fortnight full of editing, guest appearances online, writing, reading all the regency romance novels (yes...
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Friday Links Returns!
And so does the SFWA Bulletin. The official announcement went up this week, as the issue is currently being printed and while this process takes more time than we would like, the e-book should be...
View ArticleFriday Links are Very Tired (and on Saturday)
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...
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Friday Links will Delete You
This is my favourite link of the week, for entirely selfish reasons: Jason Sanford is reading the new issue of the SFWA Bulletin and rather enjoying it. “This is what we’ve all been wanting from SFWA—a...
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Sunday Links is not Friday Links
It was the Aurealis Awards last night! Congrats to all the winners, and to Nicole Murphy and her team for putting on what sounded like a great night. Here’s a Storify of how it all looked on social...
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Friday Links Wants a Touch Screen TV
Tobias Buckell talks about a topic very dear to my heart: Tech and Five Year Olds Karen Gillan’s Hair will Appear in Star Wars V. Not Karen, just her hair. The issue of clothes and women in politics is...
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Friday Links Starts Robbing Banks.
The Wired talks about Matt Fraction and writing realistic sex into comics with the new title Sex Criminals. “They do what any young, fun, sex-having sexy persons would do after discovering their...
View ArticleFriday Links is Out of Touch
So, we’ve just come back from a family holiday in a fake Swiss village with very limited wifi, which means I’ve been completely out of touch about some of the more essential news this week. Still...
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Friday Links Wants A Dalek and a Novel Contract for Mother’s Day
Ah, Mother’s Day, that time when our media and shopping spaces fill up with the assumption that “What Mum Wants” is a universal concept. Just once I’d love to see a ‘last minute gifts for Mum’...
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Friday Links is Sensational (Featuring Wonder Woman)
Welcome to a bumper edition of Friday Links! The August solicits for DC Comics had a delicious (one might say SENSATIONAL) announcement to make: a new digital-first comic for Women, bringing back the...
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Friday Links are Team Peppa Pig
Two days after the bombshell that Peppa Pig might be in danger from the budget cuts to the ABC, she’s still trending. I think we’ve found our figurehead, people! Particularly interesting was the...
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Friday Links Destroys Science Fiction
This lovely piece by Amal El Mohtar places Women Destroy Science Fiction editor Christie Yant in conversation with other important women of SF’s history. The Toast on How Not To Review Women’s Writing...
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Friday Links is Feeling Neglected…
…largely because Tansy is busy editing a book with one hand, and typing space melodrama about Musketeers with the other. But I have linkses! Some of them have been waiting patiently for far too long....
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Friday Links is Watching July Disappear into the Distance
Hey July! You and I had a lot of stuff to get done, didn’t we? How are we going with that, then? July? JULY DON’T LEAVE ME, IT’S TOO SOON! Ahem. It’s been a busy month. Yesterday was Alexandre Dumas’...
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Friday Links Meets Chris and Roz
A blast from the past for this week’s Friday Links – Big Finish are finally admitting that they really want to drag more New Adventures material into their stable, with a series of audio adaptations of...
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Friday Links is So Jet Lag. Much Napping.
I’m home, but keep regularly (or irregularly) crashing to the ground like a redwood in an endangered forest. Some things I’ve read in the last day or so, since I’m apparently not good for much except...
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Friday Links is a Series, Not a Standalone
You Can’t Take The Sky Kanga From MeFriday links lives! It lives! The biggest obstacle to Friday links, in fact, has been that my mother has been babysitting for me on Friday mornings, allowing me a...
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