I’m tugging at another thread that’s way above my level today. I’ve written before about my feelings when writers accuse other writers of things like misogyny in interviews (coughGrantMorrisoncough. it’s a cheap and nasty gimmick. We’ve also talked on DSD before of the responsibility of dealing with racial issues (if memory serves, it was a great post from Sandra that kick started that conversation.) But I’ve noticed that terms like sexism and misogyny get thrown around a lot on the net at the moment, particularly in the days …

Something that writers start to think about, when we get all writerly an’ shite, is blurbing. Bit of a silly word, right? I think it’s Klingon for fake word. Or Welsh for the wind through the mountains and valleys on a spring day. Some say it was the pagan festival of writers, others that it was a creature that resembled a cross between a dragon and a pig.  Whatever it’s ancient meaning, today it means pimping ma book. Here’s the deal; …

The Death Of A Political Writer One of the biggest changes I’ve gone through in the past 18 months has been my political voice. Or rather, the fading of it. Not that I’m any less vocal, angry or passionate about the issues that drive my views, but I voice it in a different way. I’ve always made a distinction between being a social person and a political person, but it’s only recently that I’ve really earned that distinction. I was …