Malinda Lo

Last November, I launched a series of blog posts facetiously titled "FAQs," even though they weren’t frequently asked questions; they were simply questions that readers emailed me. I thought that calling them FAQs was funny, but I recently realized that I probably will be developing a FAQ for my novel, so I don’t want to ... More→

Tonight, Battlestar Galactica returns for its final 10 episodes. I am very excited about this. But my excitement isn’t quite as fannish as it used to be. My first taste of fandom was back in the mid-1990s when The X-Files was still good. I was totally drawn into that fandom, the mythology, the various debates ... More→

For the past several days I’ve had Simon & Garfunkel’s rendition of "Scarborough Fair" stuck in my head. Usually it makes me feel kind of nostalgic, because my father used to hum the tune as a lullaby when I was a little kid, but after reading Nancy Werlin’s Impossible, that nostalgia went out the window. ... More→

OK, folks, it’s happened. I’ve lived here in small-town Fairfax for just over two months, and at last I’ve had my first full-on bout of homesickness for San Francisco. Yeah, San Francisco is only half an hour away by car, and I was just there last Thursday, but it was on Saturday night that it ... More→

I’ve been thinking about food lately. (Those of you who know me might roll their eyes and say, "Big surprise!") Over the holidays, I ate and ate and ate and ate. It was a little disturbing, but also delicious. First in Massachusetts I had roast beef and lobster bisque and oh-my-god-I-can’t-stop-eating-these cookies. And then I ... More→

My latest Notes & Queeries column, "Yes I Am," was published at AfterEllen.com over the holidays. In the column, I write about how we as LGBT people generally have to come out over and over again, and I offer some thoughts on making that a bit easier. It was inspired by the film Milk and ... More→