I wanted to believe that Makandal flew away, but my wishes can’t fly freely so. They’re rooted to the ground like me, who eats salt.

They are me, these women. They are the ones who taught me to see; I taught me to see. They, we, are the ones healing the Ginen story, fighting to destroy that cancerous trade in...

We are all here, all the powers of the Ginen lives for all the centuries that they have been in existence, and we all fight. We change when change is needed. We are a little...

It’s my business,” he said. Pouted. Looked at the ground.If you only eat unsalted food, fresh food, we believe you make Lasirèn vexed, for salt is the creatures of the sea, and good for the...

Mid-range, androgynous voice. I first thought that Solaris was a guy. Then a girl. Maybe. Then I gave up trying to figure out which. It would become obvious at some point, or not.

The heaviness of loss in her heart hadn’t eased, but there was room there for humour, too.

When your elders are millennia-old demigods, you’d best take the injunction to respect your elders seriously.

Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time.

So there’s a freeing up that happens when I can go into that storytelling mode…It isn’t about how much sense you make, it is about how compelling you are. (interview)

Even she hair itself rough and wiry; long black knotty locks springing from she scalp and corkscrewing all the way down she back… The only thing soft about Tan-Tan is she big molasses-brown eyes that...