Great list. I'd add Road Games, Coherence, The Lair of the White Worm, Black Roses, and Kill, Baby… Kill!

Yeah why not? It's a great combination.

It's such a good fit. Though she would probably make more money with 5E.

I actually pitched developing this exact thing (Jades in the Dark) to Fonda Lee a few years ago. She declined and said she had something in the works so something may come up at some point.

Exactly!

Power grid or no, I still read your post to the tune of carmina burana.

Yeah that's fair. I am kind of on number 2 side, but to be honest that meaning doesn't come up very often. (Which is possibly why it drifted in the first place).

Do you mean to stop using it as a synonym for devastate? To stop using it to mean losing 1 out of 10? Or stop using it altogether?

Impeccable list. May is probably a bit too old to make this list, but I feel like she is cut from the same cloth.

In my experience, trying to finish a book is when your brain comes up with 1000 other ideas to distract you because starting stories is fun but finishing them is hard.