Steam-Powered: Lesbian Steampunk

Here's the table of contents.

I can't wait to read the stories by N. K. Jemisin, Shweta Narayan (Mughal India clockpunk!), and Amal El-Mohar, to name the writers whose stories I've enjoyed before, and to get acquainted with the other writers in the volume.

I am also curious to see how the others interpreted "steampunk," which, I realized as I sat down to write my own story, is a somewhat vague genre. I even briefly worried that mine, which features mecha of unknown origin stomping through an alternate southwestern America, might not even count as steampunk at all.

I'm melting, I'm melting!

Just checked the weather to see if it's really an oven in here, or if I'm just being a wimp. Los Angeles just broke its record for heat - 113 degrees fondly Fahrenheit!

Apparently the heat fried the collective brain of the Associated Press, as it writes, "It's a departure welcomed by many after an unusually cool and foggy summer."

Not by me! I'm taking my toys and going somewhere air-conditioned. (Sadly not my apartment.) I bet my cats are happy I've been Furminating them to remove their winter coats.