Articles

Over time, I’ve written a number of articles on this blog. Some are related to books or publishing or reviewing, but others focus on different topics, like mental health, gender issues, and so on. This page has links to all the articles I’ve written over the years, arranged alphabetically.

The Anonymous Game: or, When People Need Help (Oct 20, 2014)
Are Teens Too Young For Teenage Books? (Jul 15, 2013)
Breaking Through the Expectation Barrier (Nov 6, 2013)
Depression and Self-Censorship (Dec 15, 2016)
Do You Like Your Books Rare, or Well-Done? (Nov 25, 2013)
Facing the Monster: Living with Mental Illness (Nov 4, 2016)
First Impressions: You Only Get One (Apr 7, 2014)
Gateway Books into SFF (Mar 17, 2014)
Good But Not Good Enough: Seeing Myself in a Background Character from Lev Grossman’s “The Magicians (May 9, 2014)
The Great Divide (July 22, 2015)
How to Become a Trusted Reviewer (Aug 22, 2016)
Judging a Book by its Audience (Oct 12, 2013)
Market Demand, Mansplaining, and Misogyny (Nov 13, 2014)
Misunderstanding How Reviews Work (Sept 15, 2016)
Non Audiam: Why I Really Avoid Audiobooks (Jun 8, 2013)
On Being an Ex-Pat (Oct 17, 2016)
On Bullying and Author Interaction (Sep 15, 2013)
Phenomenal Cosmic Powers: Wicca and Paganism in SFF (Jan 3, 2017)
Ratings vs Rankings (Dec 15, 2016)
Reading in a Vacuum: Objective versus Subjective Reviews (Jun 29, 2013)
Reading Minorities is Easier Than You, and I, Thought (Aug 7, 2015)
The Reviewer’s Dilemma: Best Foot Forward (Aug 1, 2014)
The Reviewer’s Dilemma: Did I Miss Something? (Aug 8, 2014)
The Reviewer’s Dilemma: Looking Back and Wincing (Aug 29, 2014)
The Reviewer’s Dilemma: Mind vs Gut (Jul 18, 2014)
The Reviewer’s Dilemma: Not Finishing What You Started (Aug 15, 2014)
The Reviewer’s Dilemma: Show Me the Money! (Sep 5, 2014)
The Reviewer’s Dilemma: Too Many ARCs! (Jul 25, 2014)
The SFF Divide: On the Assumed Validity of Science Fiction Over Fantasy (Sept 23, 2016)
Sodomizing Flies: the Important of Good Translation (May 13, 2015)
Tropes as Simulated Character Development (June 10, 2013)
What a Girl Wants: What Girls in Geekdom are Allowed to do (May 1, 2013)
What Would You Give For Your Kid Fears? (Oct 30, 2012)
Why I Need Diverse Books (Sep 23, 2014)
Why I Will Forever Love the Valdemar Novels (Feb 21,2014)
Why I Selfishly Want Gender Diversity in my Reading (Jan 29, 2014)