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Reasons to care about Racefail
Torque Control — ... update). “This hurts us all“, by Oyceter, about silence and advocacy. “The only neat thing to do“, by Rose Fox, about speaking up Perhaps most excitingly for me, Verb_noire, a small press being established to “celebrate the works of talented, underrepresented authors and deliver them to a readership that demands more.” A roundup of recommended reading lists, including a link to the writers of colour 50 book challenge, as well as potential efforts for outreach at ...

Essay: Why I Promote Philippine Speculative Fiction
Bibliophile Stalker — ... get published here. Obviously, I'm not Mohanraj; I'm not an American author, I don't have a US-published book, and I don't have an agent. But what I can relate to is that desire to promote Filipino authors. I don't think my blog is as popular as Scalzi's for example but hopefully it's getting the word out, if only to a tiny audience. And that's not to say I'm not the only one doing so. There's the Carl Brandon Society, Writers of Color 50 Book Challenge, The World SF News Blog, and the occasional ...

April Books 1) Kindred, by Octavia E. Butler
From the Heart of Europe — ... work a bit to grasp what is going on. And the brutal facts of slavery and of the human spirit's adaptation to it pretty much speak for themselves; at least, they do when Butler is describing them. Although the brutality of her fictional Maryland slaveholding is actually not as bad as the real Carolinas plantation described by Fanny Kemble a little later in time, it seems more shocking to have it witnessed by someone who is a contemporary of ours. I read this book for the 50books_poc book club, and I'm glad I did.