Language is a funny thing. It only works when everyone is on the same page, but it’s so large that actually getting everyone in compliance would be an impossible task even if we all agreed to it. Loan words slip in, meanings change, euphemisms become canonized, words and phrases undergo reanalysis, reinterpretation, rebracketing, it’s a […]
Review: The Case of the Sleeping Beauties
The Case of the Sleeping Beauties is a novella that I wrote back in 2015. Ambitiously subtitled “a Utah Sinclair mystery”, it did not make any significant splash. It’s got 67 lifetime sales, a 3.8 rating, and a single proper review. Some of this is simply a lack of marketing: back in 2015 I had […]