The Speculative Salon

Do you speak Dothraki? Or Na'vi? Last time I talked about me and languages.  Evidently, I am not alone with the language thing. Not th...

I read the Hobbit when it first came out.  Yeah, I'm that old.  One of the things that happened was a longing to have someone to speak E...

Writing the right amount of description to evoke a world   where characters live and breathe can be a bugaboo for writers.   Either we p...

I started to believe I would never have time to read books again. There never seems to be enough time to sit down and read a book with every...

Met a woman , a few weeks ago, who is revising her photography career.  In our chat, I happened on the concept of how photography happen...

Spent most of last week stuck indoors due to what Hubs likes to call 'snowmageddon', the winter storm that dropped a heap of snow ...

I was listening to an essay by Tor's Jo Walton from her collection What Makes This Book So Great .  she writes about why she re-reads c...