Malinda Lo

This past weekend I left my house in the country and spent two days San Francisco to celebrate Pride. This year Pride felt especially special because, well, this is the first year in a long time in which I don’t live in a major metropolitan area where there are tons of gay people. I am ... More→

As much as I love a delicious gourmet meal full of fancy-sounding cooking techniques and sauces, I also love simple food. I’ve written before about my obsession with finding the perfect pizza. Lately, Amy and I have been experimenting with tossing the dough and I think we are verging on a perfect home-made version! However, ... More→

Earlier this month, to celebrate finishing the first draft of my next novel (woohoo!) — as well as the fact that the strawberries this summer are fantastic — I made a strawberry pie. The most important part of this pie is the strawberries, because except for a small amount of puree, they remain uncooked. That ... More→

Recently, within a period of about 24 hours, I got emails/questions from three different people about how they could get published. This was a little startling to me since the questions came in such close proximity. I’ve gotten questions like this before. I wrote about it last November, in fact. Back then, I side-stepped the ... More→

Before I get to this week’s somewhat bizarre collection of photos, I have a couple of things to share. First, I have a nifty new header image on my website (and on my Twitter page) courtesy of Saundra Mitchell. In addition to being the author of Shadowed Summer, which I highly recommend, she is also ... More→

After writing my last blog post on reviews, I realized something kinda funny: I’m old-school, people! I like newspapers! (I realize this is a doomed love affair.) I think that critics have stuff to say that’s important! And I also think authors should stay in their isolated garrets and stay the hell away from reviewers! ... More→