Author Archives: Theodora Goss

“So awful things happen sometimes, but good things can happen too. The trick is to be as brave as you can through the terrible parts so you can get to the wonderful ones, because they will come along someday,” said … Continue reading →

If you’re interested, my blog post “Why Go to the Museum?” was recently reposted on the SFWA blog. If you missed it the first time, feel free to go over and take a look! Having my post reposted made me … Continue reading →

Terri Windling is one of my favorite writers and one of my favorite people in general (if she is a person, which I have long doubted – I suspect she’s really the Fairy Queen in her mortal form). She has … Continue reading →

It’s been one of those days.  This morning I discovered that my laptop has been infected with spyware, so I can’t use it until the spyware is removed.  As a result, I could not do any work that required a … Continue reading →

Why is the period just before modernism so important to me? I was watching a show on PBS about Paris in the modernist period. When I turned the television on, it was already on the friendship between Braque and Picasso. … Continue reading →

We all came to Miss Lavender’s for different reasons, and in different ways. Emma came because the Gaunts had always come to Miss Lavender’s. Her mother had come, and her mother’s mother, and her mother’s mother’s mother, all the way … Continue reading →

“Ask the cats.” “That makes no sense,” said Matilda Tillinghast. “But that’s what it says. Do you see a cat anywhere?” Matilda’s mother started looking around them, at the sidewalks and the brownstone steps, into the alleys between the buildings. … Continue reading →