Malinda Lo

Last month we got HBO, which meant I could finally watch Game of Thrones, a show that I’ve been dying to see ever since I saw the first promos for it. The first season wrapped up back in June in the U.S., so I’m a few months behind, but I loved watching the episodes in ... More→

Some weird things are happening here on my blog. You can’t see it unless you look at the source code, but I’ve been hacked. It doesn’t seem to affect the external appearance much, but it is a problem and I’m working to resolve it. That means that things might get a little wonky here over ... More→

Ever since I blogged about the casting of Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss, I’ve been thinking about a broader question: How exactly should one write about race in a novel of speculative fiction that is not set on this here Earth right now, so that readers understand what you mean? I’ve blogged on writing about race ... More→

This post was originally published at GayYA.org. In my two young adult fantasy novels, Ash and Huntress, the main characters are girls who fall in love with other girls. I admit there’s something different about the love stories told in my books, but it’s not that they’re gay love stories. The difference is: in the ... More→

It’s been two weeks since the fabulous Sirens conference and I’m still thinking about it. That’s how great it was! Today I’m going to recap the roundtable I led, which was about “queerness and fairy tales.” A roundtable is not the same as a panel. It involves one person leading a discussion about a specific ... More→

Recently on SF Signal’s Mind Meld, a bunch of writers answered the question What book introduced you to fantasy? The responses reminded me of so many great fantasy novels I remember reading in my childhood that I’m shamelessly stealing their topic and answering it for myself! And because I can’t pick just one, here are ... More→