Sarah Kanning

Got a present in the mail today (never mind it was from myself – those rarely disappoint): a much-worn copy of Amazons! edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson. It’s a collection of high fantasy short stories featuring women, and has the now-classic story by Elizabeth A. Lynn, “The Woman Who Loved the Moon.” If you haven’t [...]

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Note: This is a political post that pertains to writing and the imagination.

I read with some interest the discussion about Sarah Palin firing and then rehiring within a day the city librarian (among other city employees) as a “loyalty test” while Palin was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska (population: 4,600 at the time). You can read [...]

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“Sex with Ghosts” (Strange Horizons, August 2008) was my first fiction sale and my first appearance in a web-only magazine, but not the first time I’d been published. Prior to that, I’d had several things published in print: poems, a review, and an author interview in literary journals and magazines, a nonfiction “how to research [...]

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Drat! I was all ready to sing the praises of The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series as a useful tool for writers, having read the volume on life in Chaucer’s England by Forgeng and McLean (quite readable but detailed), but the books on Elizabethan England and the Vikings (yes, that’s two separate books) don’t [...]

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