Author Archive: Sarah Hoyt

FROM ALMA BOYKIN:  Familiar Tale.

Smiley Lorraine: Wolverine. Rosie Jones: 100-lb. Skunk. Morgana Lorraine: Witch with Editorial Problems.

Welcome to a world where Familiars choose magic workers, and a few others, as their partners. A world of adventure, tax-deductions, bad publisher tricks, and odd veterinary clinics, where wolverines wear glasses and iguanas sing along with the radio—badly—while casting spells and keeping their chosen humans out of mischief.

Or try to.

(Five short-stories.)

Oh, and there’s a review of book sixteen here.

I’VE HAD MY DIFFERENCES WITH BAEN, BUT THIS IS RIDICULOUS:  Publishing House Baen Books Attacked by Cancel Culture.

A lot of what the idiots are complaining about is coming into a site where you’re not familiar with the culture and skimming till offended. Also Baen is not particularly right wing. It just has some right wing writers (or to the right of Lenin) instead of de facto cancelling them.
Of course, this means the left sees them as a soft target.
Again I’ve had my differences with them — partly because they’re in the invidious position of being a traditional house while trad pub is collapsing, and no one is dealing well with that — but they do not deserve this, and it is threatening the livelihoods of my friends.

FROM IAN GRAHAM:  Stellar.

Meet Stellar – urban crime-fighter who tackles injustice with swift and decisive action, carrying the burden of freeing society from oppression, fighting for the weak and wounded.

She is brave.

She is beautiful.

She is just a comic book character… or at least she was.

Macy Davis is an athletic high school student with an eye for Patrick Newell, the young artist who created Stellar. When Macy’s best friend, Keri Cartwright, discovers Patrick’s comic book heroine, she convinces Macy to masquerade as Stellar because to Macy, Stellar is Patrick’s perfect girl. But when Macy dons a homemade costume to surprise Patrick at the Halloween Dance, her debut takes an unexpected twist and the reveal is more than anyone, including Macy, could have ever imagined.