“Fantasy Heroines That Rock My World” #12 on SF Signal , Plus A Great Deal More…
The 12th instalment of my “Fantasy Heroines That Rock My World” series posted on SF Signal this week—this time featuring Judge Rachael Boucher from Teresa Frohock’s Miserere: An Autumn Tale.
As I note in the post:
“When I first read Miserere, I wrote to Teresa afterward that it was a story which “spoke to my heart.” The character that spoke to me most strongly in that respect was Judge Rachael Boucher, whose former lover betrayed her, abandoning her to Hell and possession by a demon …”
To find out why Rachael appeals to me so strongly as a character, click on:
Fantasy Heroines That Rock My World: Rachael Boucher in T Frohock’s Miserere
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Chapter 2 (The Serpent Prince) of Daughter of Blood Features On B&N SciFi:
Less than a month to go now until Daughter of Blood is published, so it was exciting to see the next chapter release featured on B&N SciFi this week.
If you didn’t see it earlier in the week, you can enjoy the goodness now by clicking on:
Daughter Of Blood, The Wall Of Night Book Three: Chapter 2, The Serpent Prince
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Enjoy Brainpickings — & the Enchantress Of Numbers:
One of my favourites among the Twitter accounts I follow is @brainpickings (by the @brainpicker Maria Popova.) If you’re not on Twitter, there is also a newsletter that you can subscribe to. To give you an idea of why Brainpickings is such a favourite, here are three of the features I have particularly enjoyed recently:
A Zen Master Explains Death and the Life-Force to a Child
Ursula K. Le Guin on Being a Man: A Journey to Where the Semicolon Meets The Soul
Ada Lovelace on the Nature of the Imagination and Its Three Core Faculties
Wonderful stuff and well worth your time.
If you’re interested, I featured Helen Rickerby’s poem on Ada Lovelace, Enchantress Of Numbers, awa’ back in 2011:
Enchantress of Numbers — Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace