By a strange confluence of programming during last month's Jane Austen Society of North America's annual general meeting (JASNA AGM), I would come home after a full day of sessions about the seduction of conversation, coded sexual references in Austen's fiction and gendered ways of speaking, and watch a couple of episodes of Season 2 of The Walking Dead, the popular zombie-apocalypse cable TV show--my own version of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Read More
From Phyllida's Desk
Falling Off the Face of the Earth
May 13, 2012
Toward the end of last month, my young home computer, barely out of puberty, died unexpectedly. Coincidently, my long-awaited new computer at my day job arrived, requiring IT Dept. set-up and the reinstallation of all my software.
What this meant was that, for a brief period, I was almost completely cut off from that Read More
What this meant was that, for a brief period, I was almost completely cut off from that Read More
Recognition
May 9, 2011
One of the biggest thrills for a writer--for anybody who does creative work--is to be recognized. It's especially true if the work you do is seen as "light" or not serious, like comedy and, especially, genre fiction.
Two things have happened to me recently that have made me feel recognized. Read More
Two things have happened to me recently that have made me feel recognized. Read More