P H Lee 🪬
@p-h-lee.bsky.social
pretentious, awkward, difficult to approach, prickly, too fond of [their] own tales, haughty, prone to versifying, disdainful, cantankerous and scornful links to work here: https://p-h-lee.com/
oh no. this is heartbreaking. i just loaned a friend my copy of Little, Big. one of the greatest fantasy writers of my lifetime.
Maria Dahvana Headley @mariadahvana.bsky.social · 6h agoI'm sorry to hear that John Crowley has left the land of the living. Whenever we happened to meet, we talked about strange wonders and lost languages. He had a mind full of magical things, and was always delighted to discuss. May he travel to an interesting ever-afterlife.
it's amazing to me how much art/fiction/movie/etc criticism boils down to "people don't actually enjoy the things that they say they enjoy, they're just pretending." for the most part, people enjoy the things that they say that they enjoy. some of them just have different tastes than you.
saw "sheep in a box" a film which dares ask the question "what if getting a robot duplicate of your dead child was fine actually? what if it helped you grow as a person?"
you should read this book. it is so fun and so thinky.
Cameron Reed (she|they)@lateonsetgirl.bsky.social · yesterdayThe Kindle edition of The Fortunate Fall is currently marked down to $2.99. This price only seems to be available on Amazon US and Canada. I have no idea how long it will last. www.amazon.com/Fortunate-Fa...
FYI for writers: The standard contracts for the SFF space are the SFWA model contracts. None of these contracts include perpetual rights grants to the publisher without royalties and reversion. This is true even for reprints and even for non-exclusive rights grants. web.archive.org/web/20240302...
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sorry to ask, but before you embark on a journey of revenge, can you dig two graves? it's just that we're way behind on our grave-digging targets, and you won't be able to help out once you're busy with revenge. thanks.
Here's a Women in Translation Month event with me, at Oldspeak in Boise Idaho, the bookstore bar with the Beowulf wallpaper in the bathroom! It's August 19, and it's going to be fabulous. Come!
btw the US has a massive blood shortage right now so if you can donate, you should. (they have lifted a bunch of restrictions recently so it's possible you qualify even if previously you would have been disqualified. still have the dumb rules about living abroad though.)
"if it was good it would be good" is just an unmatched expression of a particular feeling when you are trying to like mediocre fiction.
saw "the invite" and i genuinely think this is the first realistic movie about polyamory? (it is possible i'm missing prior art. but it sure is a realistic movie about polyamory.)
had the fascinating experience of reading a (good!) essay from a fandom i used to be very highly active in, but haven't been for years. the essay takes a bunch of things as obviously true that are the exact opposite of my experience. but hey! it's been many years. maybe things have changed.
watched "moonstruck" for the first time last night at the insistence of a friend. incredible movie. it has everything: prosthetic hands, old married couples, cher, curses that don't actually work, the moon.
people shit on DS9 seasons 1 and 2 bc they incorrectly think the bajoran stuff is "boring" but i will never forgive season 7 for turning kai winn from an antagonist with her own strong, self-consistent point of view into a literal demon worshipper
i think a thing that llm-boosters miss re: publishing professionals is that we are _constantly_ getting barraged by llm-based scams. like. i am not a particularly well-known author. i also don't have a publicly posted e-mail address. i get multiple llm-related scam e-mails a day.
my personal problem with "explain your process" stuff (because of promotion, testing for llm-based plagiarism, testing for non-llm based plagiarism, etc) is that almost all of my creative processes are just "so i had this really fucked up dream..."
(Duermevela has posted it on their social media, so I assume it’s fine for me to do the same.) Cover art for the Spanish translation of Asunder!
AND ANOTHER THING I remember when I first was dealing with editors being an absolute twisted up rubberband over suggested changes that I didn't want to make. I wanted my story published! But I didn't want to make the dancing bears brown I WROTE PURPLE I MEANT PURPLE.
troubling direction. (it's worth noting that, despite these shifts in Code of Ethics, many literary agents are consumate professionals who do not try to sell their clients on extraneous services and harvest referral fees.) but you have to look out for yourself, as a writer.
Victoria Strauss@victoriastrauss.com · last wk.New #WriterBeware blog post: The AALA has made major revisions to its Canon of Ethics. What's changed, where I think the changes fall short, and questions about the future of the agent profession raised by the issues the Canon has been revised to address writerbeware.blog/2026/07/31/t...
New #WriterBeware blog post: The AALA has made major revisions to its Canon of Ethics. What's changed, where I think the changes fall short, and questions about the future of the agent profession raised by the issues the Canon has been revised to address writerbeware.blog/2026/07/31/t...
The AALA Makes Significant Updates to Its Canon of Ethics - Writer Beware
For the second time in four years, the Association of American Literary Agents (AALA) has updated its Canon of Ethics. The last time, in 2022, the major changes related to packaging and producer fees ...
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this is, objectively, an incredibly well-designed poster. it would absolutely work today.
Luke Knox@lukeknox.me · last wk.just became aware of William Howard Taft’s 1908 campaign poster
"but what if it was bad... on purpose?" feels like a daring critical statement but it's usually just deflection. art is very rarely bad on purpose. when it is, it is very rarely successful at accomplishing its goals.
"Read this book. Let its deliciously dark world envelop you." @veronicarothbooks.com 🏆 A Finalist for the Nebula and Locus Awards 🖤 A @reactorsff.bsky.social Reviewer's Choice of 2024 SABRIEL meets WITCH KING in @kerstinhall.bsky.social 's deliciously dark fantasy ASUNDER! Buy: geni.us/asunder
I do not understand people who are down on Emily Wilson for bagging on Nolan's Odyssey, like it's coming out of the blue. It isn't: he specifically invoked her translation and claimed* to be "inspired" by it. If she doesn't want her own reputation tied to the movie, she has to say something.
when Maria Dahvana Headley has something to say about translating ancient, famous epics, it is best to listen.
Maria Dahvana Headley @mariadahvana.bsky.social · 2w agoThing about working with famous epics is that they're famous epics for a reason. Tons of people have had opinions about them for millennia. If you're going to work with one, you know your version is going to piss some people off. Even a *sedate* famous epic inflames some of its audience.
The poetry Hugo is a go! At least until 2029, as there's a policy of re-ratifying new categories three years later. Thank you to @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social, @bugthewriter.bsky.social, @therisingtithes.bsky.social, and everybody else who made this happen!
i watched the three-hour long theatrical presentation of an ancient greek myth retold to offer commentary on and advice to the modern world, that everyone has been saying is so good, and i thought it was fantastic. i am speaking, of course, about Hadestown.
