I remember going to the bookstore in a local strip mall on Tuesdays to check out the new Ballantine Adult Fantasy and Ace Science Fiction Specials releases. A mini-Golden Age of our own.

I loved GHOSTDRIFT.

Same with the mobile app.

That is fabulous.

Los Angeles International Film Expo (Filmex), 1974, late night second showing of Richard Lester's The Three Musketeers (because the world premiere earlier that evening sold out). The festival theme was swashbucklers and the audience was all fanatics. The ride across the sunset got its own ovation.

Quite likely.

I love Bugsy Malone.

I don’t hate 3rd person omniscient. I really like it done well. Sometimes I step out of a Sherwood Smith novel to watch how she does it for a page or two, then fall back into the story.

"Don't let your disabilities define you" isn't about me... it's about the person who says it. Their "inspirational affirmations" aren't about "lifting me up", they're expressions of how they see disabilities as diminishing me; lessening me. They don't, and I won't tolerate that bullshit.

My Los Angeles Public Library card gets me access to the online searchable version of the OED, and that alone is worth the price of admission … oh wait, it's free.