31 March 2013

Reading list

Chris Kluwe, punter for the Minnesota Vikings, continues to be an articulate and outspoken ally of gay athletes. His latest opinion piece: "An openly gay player in the NFL is not a distraction."

Current fiction reading:
Floats the Dark Shadow by Yves Fey
The Sun and Stars by Elizabeth Adair

Just finished:
The Books of the Raksura series by Martha Wells: The Cloud Roads, The Serpent Sea, The Siren Depths.
Engrossing stories, fascinating world-building, interesting and compelling characters. I couldn't stop reading these books once I'd started them.

12 March 2013

Word clouds

As part of brainstorming for the blurb, I generated two word clouds from portions of Safety Net:



Ambient reading: transcript of an NPR interview about gay athletes coming out. One of the interviewees is former NFL player Wade Davis.