Jim Butcher

Speculative Fiction Sucker Punches, Part 3 – Upper Cuts, Body Punches and Haymakers

So we’ve covered convenient magic and uber leetness as speculative fiction sucker punches; the right hook and left hook, respectively. Now we’re going to bring it on home. A strong corollary to the uber heroine is the female character written by a man who is clueless about women. So many good male fantasy fiction writers just [….]

Literary Pin-Up Calendar from The Tinker’s Pack

For The Tinker’s Pack 2013 calendar, the not-for-profit organization founded by Patrick Rothfuss, has teamed up with some of the best authors in the fantasy genre: Peter S. Beagle, Ray Bradbury, Patricia Briggs, Jim Butcher, Jacqueline Carey, Neil Gaiman, Charlaine Harris, Robin Hobb, N.K. Jemisin, George R. R. Martin, Terry Pratchett, and Patrick Rothfuss. The [….]

Birthdays

On this day, November 12, in 1815, Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in Johnstown, New York. An icon in the early women’s rights movement, her
Declaration of Sentiments, written in 1848, became the cornerstone of the women’s suffrage efforts in the United States. Also an avid abolitionist, she was one of the few in the women’s rights movement who was also involved with women’s parental custody, property, employment and income rights, and rights surrounding divorce and birth control. She died of heart failure in New York in 1902, eighteen years before the passage of legislation giving women the right to vote.

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