Holiday

Happy fourth of July, everybody!

Suggested terminology

What did you eat? That last flatulence was a real airbender.

True names

At this year's International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, YA writer Owl Goingback mentioned that a publisher told him to change his name because it sounds foreign. (His isn't; ours are.) Now Facebook, in the simple and childlike faith that it can tell real names from made-up ones, has decided that his is one of the latter.

Thanx to Pat Cadigan, who presumably did not provide an Official Government Document to join, as I did not.

And you don't even need vampires

sartorias tells us about an early example of the Regency Romance, and the discussion on her lj is also fascinating.