Bones of Faerie is five years old this spring! I’d get all sentimental, only Liza isn’t really the sentimental sort, so instead here’s a Book Smugglers’ “Old School Wednesday” review. “Bones of Faerie is an unexpectedly lyrical and beautifully written book – I am an immediate fan of Janni Lee Simner’s haunting prose, which captured […]
Faeries and zombies Read More »
I talk to Naomi Alderman about writing for Zombies, Run. The Zombies, Run! app chooses songs from whatever playlist you feed it, and in that post, I talk about how my favorite moments are the ones when something comes up that’s wildly inappropriate for the narrative. Today’s episode was filled with those awesome moments. First,
In which Idina Menzel and Patti Griffin help me flee from zombies Read More »
So, you all know by now that I’m a huge fan of Zombies, Run! right? That app that’s been keeping me running (or, this month, getting me back to running) by (in theory) giving me something to run from while (actually) making me want to know what happens next so badly I have no choice
Got a routine mission for you today Read More »
While running today’s Zombies, Run! episode mission, I ran into some children who’d been turned into zombies. It’s a rough apocalypse, so pretty much everyone is a potential zombie, children included, but of course, all the Runners around me were nonetheless horrified. (I, Runner 5, was presumably horrified too, but one of the amazing things
Writing lessons from the zombie apocalypse Read More »
Specifically, spoilers for Zombies, Run, season 2, mission 13. Highlight to read. Dear Zombies, Run Writers, Don’t you dare kill Archie. Don’t you dare rewire Archie. Don’t you dare do anything but return Archie to us completely and absolutely unharmed. That thing you did with Chris McShell season 1 was bad enough, and I barely
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42 minutes. 5K. Package dropped off, Sam Yao’s soul saved, welcomed into Abel Township by my now-fellow runners. IOW: Rocked the final run of my Zombies, Run training today.
“But I can still see / the edge of this town / so I’ll run as fast as I can” Read More »
Set out in the chilly late morning in my Runner 5 T-Shirt for a run. (Runner 7 says I’m now authorized to run 5K, hah!) The neighborhood was filled with people–walking, running, biking, leading kids on big wheels–and generally felt so much like, well, a neighborhood that it made me happy to be here, at
“If this were my last glimpse of winter / what would these eyes see?” Read More »
Runner 4, meet Coffeeem. Coffeeem, meet Runner 4. Runner 4 just risked my life on a training run in order to get herself … well, you’ll see. Suffice it to say, I think you two would get along. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Well, okay, maybe not all that risky in the end. But still and all. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= It
A bit more Zombies Run! geekery Read More »
Thanksgiving morning, at the end of the latest session of Zombies Run 5K Training,* I found what may be the big piece I need to make all the little pieces of the current revision fall into place. I don’t have the how and why of it yet. But it’s … a thing that the rest
Ravens and zombies Read More »
(On my way out for a walk/run.) Me: “Tend the cherry blossoms well.” lnhammer: “Don’t let the zombies get you.” And all is right in the world.
Scene from a domestic life Read More »