Book and Poetry Recommendations

Well, I said I'd blog more and then stopped blogging for months. Is blog fade still a thing?

But! Today I want to tell you that I am on Shepherd.com recommending books, for one article only! They have a classy format for recommendations and they offer Bookshop.org links, so check out the other themed book recommendation lists, too.

I am as slow a reader as I am a writer, and I don't finish everything I start reading, so it can be challenging to create a list of current books on any particular theme. Fortunately if one widens the theme definition, one can fit in quite a lot. I believe in reading widely, and my recommendation list reflects that.

Although, I should read more poetry. It's not as if there's a shortage of sci-fi poems. I mean, please write more, but also, they're out there to read if one wants them!

Here are online sources of free and excellent spec fic poetry:

• Eye to the Telescope is my absolute favorite. Every issue contains something amazing, often multiple amazing somethings.
• The SFPA Poetry Contest posts their winners annually.
• When you want something more fanciful, Liminality is full of neat stuff.
• And I had to do this; I am imperfect: Lovecraft wrote an alarming amount of poetry. Fungi from Yoggoth continues to be my favorite of his, but I also like the ones he included in Christmas letters to his friends (which he had. Shocking, I know).

In other news, early readers have read my new project! I might? Finish it in 2021? It feels late, but I've barely been working on it for a year. That's pretty typical for my novels.

I'm going to miss NaNoWriMo, though. Good luck, Wrimos. I'll be cheering you on.