Second Skin & New York weekend

Spoke to Christopher Pierce at the end of last week. He & co-editor Rachel Kramer Bussel are taking my story "On the Night Bus" for the next Fetish Chest book Second Skin. It's stories of leather and latex. "On the Night Bus" is set in a near future Berlin where everybody's recycling car and truck tires into fetish and club gear.


Went to New York this weekend to visit Ruth. Went to the Oscar Wilde Bookshop for the first time, and found Steve Berman's book of stories Trysts, which is the exact book I went there for: weird, creepy (& hot) stories and a hot cover, too. Ruth & I watched a lot of Grey's Anatomy.

Jeopardy and Female Otherness

So Jeopardy was exciting tonight because two contestants tied, and I don't think I've ever seen a tie. (If only I could have watched the Oscars in 1968...)

But what's with Jeopardy's sexism? One question was about "Tim McGraw and this beauty" singing some song. When the contestant answered "Faith Hill," Alex said, "yes, his wife." Because McGraw is called by his name, whereas Hill is marked twice, once as "this beauty" and again as "his wife." Nice. But it gets better. In a category about the words of women artists, the answer referred to Virginia Woolf as "this authoress." AUTHORESS? Why not just lady author? After all, the category was already women artists, so why call one a fine modernist an authoress? AN AUTHORESS? Fuck Jeopardy.

Distant Horizons: Queer SF Anthology news

Signed and returned my contract to Greg Herren for Distant Horizons: A Science Fiction Anthology. My story is called "The Musicmaker," and is set thirty years in the future in Vermont. My first non-erotic professional sale! Greg is fantastic; check out his writing and his troublemaking over here. He published my first story, in Alyson's Full Body Contact in 2002. There's no TOC for Distant Horizons, but I know that Steve Berman's story "Caught by Skin" will appear in it, too. It's forthcoming from Haworth Positronic, which has a pre-preview page here.