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Thinklings did an interview with Pietro, Janet's ex-boyfriend in The Cosmic Turkey.
How did you first meet Janet? That was back in high school, after I transferred from Venus. Our class went on a field trip to the Green Cheese Museum on the moon. No one had warned the space-bus driver about Janet’s, shall we say, problematic relationship with technology. Right after we left Earth’s atmosphere, the controls for the windshield wipers somehow got crossed with the steering, and the bus started lurching back and forth. Janet and I were literally thrown into each other’s arms. It was love at first sight. Read the rest here.
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The Cosmic Turkey is as delightful a romp as we’re likely to encounter. The heroine, Janet, begins life in Connecticut, but soon she is off to Pluto and galaxies galore. As she stumbles and bumbles her way through one planet after another and one adventure after another, we fall in love with her technological ineptitude, her sense of inadequacy as she assumes the helm of her spaceship, her struggles to lead her crazy crew, and her feelings for Beau Dangere and his sometime girlfriend, Richena.
Read the rest here. Tell us one weird, interesting tidbit about yourself.
I’m distantly related to the Loomis Gang, a 19th-century family of horse thieves in upstate New York. If I ever write a historical novel, they’ll be in it. Which character do you identify the most with in your book? Anyone who knows me can tell you that Janet’s “technology hex” is drawn straight from my life. I can screw up a computer without even touching it – I just have to look at it funny. Read the rest here. T. K. Barber did a beta review, back before I shortened the title from "Flight of the Cosmic Turkey:"
"If you like Sci-Fi, tongue in cheek humor, slap you in the face humor, puns, and insanely awesome alien races, you will adore this book. I hope there are several more adventures for the Turkey and her crew because I’ll read every single one." Read the rest. On the Premises held a contest for a limerick summing up the year 2020. I was one of the winners - and I didn't even use any dirty words!
Part of being a reader and writer is trying to see the world through someone else's eyes. Here are some of the books that helped educate me about systemic racism and white privilege.
Nonfiction: Carol Anderson One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me Michael Eric Dyson, Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America bell hooks, Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns Fiction: Octavia E. Butler, Kindred An unwilling time traveler is trapped in the slave era, forced to protect the white "master" who will one day become her ancestor. This book is a tour de force examination of what oppression does to both the oppressor and oppressed. Rufus starts as a friendly, open-hearted child who will "never" be like his abusive father. But the temptation of power is too much. Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun A family trying to move to a white neighborhood encounters soft-spoken racism that comes through loud and clear. Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give A teen watches in horror as a police officer shoots her friend at a traffic stop - and the media puts the dead boy on trial. |
