Cruella (2021) is weirdly fantastic. I expected to enjoy it, but it far, far exceeded my expectations. Emma Stone and Emma Thompson are just hopelessly, unbelievably cool, and basically everything else in it is done well too.
Trilogy Trends
I’ve been working on the third book in my third trilogy, and so I was thinking about the parallels between my three trilogies.
There’s one really big striking one — in all three, the third book involves descent into an underwater world. Continue reading “Trilogy Trends”
Tilty-Wheel
Spouse: “When I bought a new mouse, I made sure to get one with a tilty-wheel.”
Me: “Tilty-wheel…” Continue reading “Tilty-Wheel”
106 Degrees
My house has AC, but I’ve never been somewhere as hot as 106 degrees… so I stepped outside for twenty seconds out of sheer curiosity.
And wow. Continue reading “106 Degrees”
The End of a Closed World
I’m realizing, as I close in on the end of this trilogy, that I’ve never finished writing a book without any future plans to write more books about those characters before. I usually write open-ended worlds, meant to be revisited…
But in my mind, the trilogy that starts with The Snake’s Song has always been specifically a trilogy, and it’s very much a separate world from my other books and stories. Continue reading “The End of a Closed World”
Q Returning to Star Trek
In spite of having written a whole massive tweet rant about how all the white men in Star Trek keep being given their own shows while everyone else is treated as replaceable…
I am so out of my mind excited to see Q come back and torture Picard. Continue reading “Q Returning to Star Trek”
Strawberry Minecraft Cake
The seven-year-old wanted a strawberry Minecraft cake for their birthday. The thirteen-year-old thought that sounded like a fun project.
For their birthday, the 8-year-old has elected to play Minecraft. There are presents, cake, a piñata filled with candy… all waiting. All less exciting, apparently, than Minecraft. Continue reading “Strawberry Minecraft Cake”
Working on “The Otter’s Wings”
I don’t want to give too many spoilers for a book I haven’t finished writing, but… it’s really fun writing an octopus who wears an otter skeleton like a mecha and loves a gryphon who has a hybrid baby with her that’s basically a little elder god bundle of tentacles and feathers. Continue reading “Working on “The Otter’s Wings””
Crystal and Rainbow
by Mary E. Lowd
Originally published in New Myths, December 2019
I am a cracked crystal vase holding a rainbow cloud. The colors leak out through the cracks. The crystal is too rigid; it can’t contain them. The colors are too strong, too big. Too bold. And the crystal is precise. It desperately wants — no, needs — to be precise. But the colors have no patience. They can’t wait for precision. They happen. Whether the crystal is ready to contain them or not. Continue reading “Crystal and Rainbow”
Sales, Stores, and Slush
I keep forgetting to post about this… but I signed the contract and can now say, I’ve had another story accepted by Daily Science Fiction!
This will be my 40th story with them!
It’s so easy to forget that—now I’m vaccinated—it’s possible to go in stores. Continue reading “Sales, Stores, and Slush”