My most recent column for Strange Horizons went up this week! “A Strange and Savage Beauty: Carlos Saura’s Flamenco Trilogy” explores one of my favorite instances of dance as a speculative element – Saura’s trio of flamenco films (Bodas de Sangre, Carmen, and El Amor Brujo) that are linked by their stars, their aesthetics, and the bone-deep exploration of the line between reality and performance, and what happens when that line ceases to matter.…

Mechanique is officially out in the world today! And this is your official book day post. Come inside and take a seat; the show is about to begin… Outside any city still standing, the Mechanical Circus Tresaulti sets up its tents. Crowds pack the benches to gawk at the brass-and-copper troupe and their impossible feats: Ayar the Strong Man, the acrobatic Grimaldi Brothers, fearless Elena and her aerialists who perform on living trapezes.…

So last night, after returning from grocery shopping for Friday’s launch party (more on this later!), I watched the Met’s Costume Institute Gala red carpet. This is probably my favorite gown-y event of the year, mostly because I’ve worked it twice, so I get to look at pictures and smile, knowing that for every celebrity posing smoothly on the red carpet there are two people running flat-out through the Temple of Dendur screaming “I NEED THAT FOLIAGE” into a walkie-talkie.…

As it turns out, I have a couple of nice lead-ups to Mechanique’s release! First of these is live now at Fantasy: “Study, for Solo Piano”, a short story that offers a glimpse of some of the characters of the Circus Tresaulti, in a time just before the book meets them.…