March 17 is best known in the modern USA as St. Patrick’s Day. It is also the feast day of St. Getrude of Nivelles, an aristocratic woman who became a nun and an abbess, and might be the patron saint of cats. This older article is interesting, even though there is no formal documentation of a Patron Saint of Cats.
Short story writer and award winner John Wiswell shares six books with Nerds of a Feather.
Best five? Best six? Stubby the Robot says, “Hah!” to such paltry lists and gives us 13 selkie stories on Reactor. At the same site, Charlie Jane Anders gushed over Extraordinary, a new SFF comedy earlier this month.
Come April, the eclipse-darkened sky may make a better backdrop for a visiting comet, as the Smithsonian Magazine tells us.
LitHub discusses the line and page details of book design.
On Mary Robinette Kowal’s journal, Izzy Wasserstein shares her “favorite bit” of her new book, These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart.
This British show looks like fun! The Guardian profiles Louisa Harland, who is the lead in Renegade Nell.
Premee Mohamed is on fire in 2024. The Butcher of the Forest just came out, and We Speak Through the Mountain will be released in June.
This is a giveaway column. One commenter will get a copy of the novel The Undetectables, by Courtney Smyth.
13 selkie stories! The Secret of Roan Inish is a firm favourite film. Margo Lanagan is an amazing short-story writer, well worth checking out.
I loved that movie!
Thank you for the giveaway opportunity! Still not getting notifications despite being signed up, though.
“Renegade Nell” looks interesting! Reminds me a bit of both Queen of Swords and The Nevers.
How can cats not have an official Patron Saint? I call foul! This must be fixed at once.
Let’s declare her the official saint by fiat.
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