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In this newsletter:

• Thinky Thoughts: Occam’s Razor is Wrong

• Daron’s Guitar Chronicles new covers live at LGBTQ Reads!

• Newsletter Guest: Sharang Biswas! And an actual cover reveal!

• Book recommendation of the month: The Radiant Emperor Duology by Shelley Parker-Chan

• See you in Orlando, FL, later this week! In Ashland (MA) on May 18th! And at the SFWA Nebulas conference in June!

• WIP Report: *muahahaha* (I got bit by a dragon romantasy plot bunny)

• Would you like a free book?

• One Featured Backlist Book

Thinky Thoughts: Occam’s Razor is Wrong

This has been bugging me for years now, but especially in the world of social media, arguments are most often “won” by those who can make the shortest, most direct case for their point of view. Simplicity is king.

Don’t get me wrong, I love a punchy encapsulation, like PennyRed’s recent essay on why we don’t love Harry Potter anymore, (from Realms of the Imagination, the companion book to the British Museum’s recent Fantasy exhibit) which contains the nicely nindblowing insight that it isn’t just that JK Rowling went “full TERF,” it’s that the promise of the Wizarding world itself was that a neoliberal status quo would save us, when that’s actually led to Brexit, new rise of right-wing fascism, wage disparity, etc. As she writes:

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