Catherynne M. Valente

Every Ending Ever Written Is a Lie. Middles Doubly So.

What to Do When the Light Turns Blue With Orange and Lavender Spots

Election Eve: Zen and the Art of Doomscrolling

There Are No Alternative Facts: Some Rules For Discerning Reality In This Hallucinogenic Hellscape of Misinformation

Wait Til Daddy Gets Home: America's Sad, Craven, Masochistic Relationship with the Republican Party

Every Three Hours Is A Chance To Make A World: Notes from the Oklo Reactor

Something Perfect This Way Comes

Purity for Thee, Convenience for Me!

Take My Life, Please: The Media's Will They/Won't They Love Affair with American Fascism Prepares For Its Terrible Wedding Night

Hitting That Work/Life Balance Beam Nose-First: Books, Children, and Time

Pain Is Not a Penance

On Chun-Li, Dinosaurs, and Ducks: Nineteen Years of Alleged Writing and I Still Have No Idea What I'm Doing

The Trials and Tribulations of Fix-It Felix: Toward a Grand Unified Theory of Storytelling

The Great Replacement (Not That One, the Real One)

Wherefore Art Thou Norman Greenblatt-Vorkosigan? How to Name People, Places, and Things in Science Fiction and Fantasy

LITERARY CHORE CHARTS MF'R, DO YOU SPEAK THEM? Writing Preparation, ADHD, and Becoming a More Effective Mess

The One True Secret to Successful Writing

Part 3: Each Man Gets The Chance to Be His Own Kind of Hero: What Happened to Farscape and How It Made Me the Writer I Am

Mama, Why Are You So Sad? Explaining the Roe Decision to a Toddler...and Myself

Leviathans for Dummies: The Big Blue Farscape Essay That Never Ends Part 2 (of 3 and That's It, I Swear)

MORE LIGHT! Farscape and Me and You and Everything That’s Ever Mattered In Art and Space and Time and Art That Is In Space At a Time

Fine, I Guess I’m Gonna Say Something About Dave Chappelle Now. Goddammit.

Denizen of the Month: Roy Del Rio AKA Roy Kat & Adore Strugglebus

To Pass Beyond Revision, or, Time Is a Stupid Fucking Asshole, or, The Crocodile Layer

I'm Not Okay; You're Not Okay: Dealing with 2020's Endless Denouement

When This Is Over: A 2020 New Year

The Day Before the World Changes: Science Fiction and the Election and You and Me and Us and What Happens Next

The Shark That Never Bit Me: The Authority in Fiction and the Fiction in Authority

Captain, We Have a Problem: SFF’s Terrible No-Good Very Bad Week

Plotting for Clowns: A Class Distilled Into an Essay for Your Nerves

Traumatis Personae: Writing Through the Bad Times

Please Do Not Get Mad At Me For What I Am About To Say About Dickstoats and Brave Buttercups: How to Fiction in an Angry World

LET'S TALK ABOUT TIME, BABY

Essay: Love in the Time of Nanowrimo

What's Cooler Than Cool? Losing Like a Big Loser.

Experiment: The Foul and Dreaded Question: Where Do You Get Your Ideas?

The Importance of Being Misogynist: The Evolution of the Douchebag Throughout History

The Library Is Open: How to Give a Good Reading

The Rain in My Brain: Writing with ADD

A Piece on the Side: the Fine Art of the Beloved Sidekick