Grab your umbrella and your tights.

Guest post on writing as witchcraft by speculative fiction author Thedora Goss with a book giveaway of her collection LETTERS FROM AN IMAGINARY COUNTRY.

Giveaway of fantasy/speculative fiction collection THE ESSENTIAL PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP, which also contains 2 nonfiction pieces and an introduction by SWORDSPOINT author Ellen Kushner.

This isn't my best look Just thinking about the all the random stuff I've learned in the last ten or twenty years, all the varied life-lessons--like about diet and exercise, self-care, money, meal prep, managing conflict, organization--it strikes me how much it all would have come in handy earlier in life. Good stuff. Helpful stuff. All kinds of stuff I wish I had known when I was a kid or young adult in order to navigate life a little better.

It's so incredibly hard to get up off the mat sometimes. Imma just stay here. It's fine. I'm fine. Everybody go home. That's universal, unfortunately. Everybody gets knocked down sometimes--breakup, lost job, grief--and anyone can feel like just throwing in the towel. Yeah, that's not just a problem for those dealing with mental health issues. But like all health concerns--heart disease, cancer, diabetes, COPD, whatever--depression complicates everything, and makes all the hard things harder.