Here is a selection of posts on this blog and my other blogs that have received a lot of attention or are personal favorites of mine:

• Why are stories so important?
• How to be a better reader
• How to have a conversation with a book
• A note to writers: Maybe you aren’t ready
• Self-publishing’s quality problem
• The slippery genre of slipstream
• A survey of classic science fiction, with notes about diversity in sci-fi
• Common themes in the works of Stephen King

On my Noir Femme project blog (no longer being updated):

• Horror is a feeling, not a genre
• Gothic horror: We’re all mad here
• Patricia Highsmith, misanthrope
• But is she alive? Gillian Flynn and the “unlikable” female character
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle: An inside-out fairy tale
• The Haunting of Hill House: A love story?
• Frankenstein: Gods and monsters
  

On my Sci Femme project blog (no longer being updated):

• Imagining a world without men
• The world has always been a dystopia for women
• A kinder, gentler apocalypse
• Apocalypse vs. dystopia: Some definitions
• The bleak futures of Octavia Butler
• Frankenstein: The first science fiction novel

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