Stephanie Wood Franklin

YouTube video by Stephanie Wood Franklin Let Me Tell You a Story: The Infinite Library, Chapter 3 Part 2

Let Me Tell You a Story: The Infinite Library, Chapter 3 Part 2. TW: brief description of violence against a child #letmetellyouastory youtu.be/X9pm1qeKpq8?...

Hey, friends! Did you know there's a 100% online, FREE convention happening this weekend? Flights of Foundry (flights-of-foundry.org) is hosting their online convention starting today, running for 60 hours around the clock. Here's where you can see my shiny mug. I'd love to see you there!

YouTube video by Stephanie Wood Franklin Let Me Tell You a Story: The Infinite Library, Chapter 3 part 1

Let Me Tell You a Story: The Infinite Library, Chapter 3 Part 1. We get to see the team in their home universes in between jobs. youtu.be/56dxNsUaU5I?...

Ways in which my autism is unexpectedly helpful: walking my mother through connecting her new Bluetooth headphones to her phone after they were connected to her computer. Naturally breaking things down step by step is really useful for that kind of thing, and also, oof, I'm tired. #techsupport

Continuing the Great Discworld Re-Read, here's my post about The Light Fantastic and Equal Rites. insertscenehere.blogspot.com/2025/09/grea...

A white and brown tabby cat lies on his side on an open laptop, fast asleep with his mouth slightly open

QWERTY is sleeping the sleep of the kitty who has only gotten 15 hours of sleep today, and is utterly exhausted.

Because I apparently forgot earlier today, I'm asking all of you - did you remember to take your meds?

Brought to you by the Dammit, I Knew I Forgot Something Council

Great Discworld Re-Read: Overview and The Colour of Magic Anyone who knows me knows that the Discworld books by Sir Terry Pratchett are some of my favorite books of all time. The series is mighty, w...

It's been ten years since we lost Sir Terry Pratchett (GNU) and the last of the Discworld books, The Shepherd's Crown, was published. It's time for a Discworld re-read that will end with finally reading the last Discworld book. insertscenehere.blogspot.com/2025/09/grea...

Well now I know what my next goal/reward will be. If I ever get something accepted for publication, I want a basket of snacks.

The Infinite Library - YouTube A novel read in parts, written and read by Stephanie Wood Franklin

It's been a minute, but the Infinite Library is back! I've read through chapter 2 - you can hear all the videos through the playlist here: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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I saw that the summer before my senior year (the year you write your thesis at my school), and I made a point of telling every other senior and junior about it. It was 2003, and I ended up backing up on disc, CD, paper, sent a copy to my mother, kept a hard copy in the fridge...

When it's been less than a week since the last WorldCon ended and the next WorldCon already has to make a statement of apology, it's not looking so good for the convention scene.

2/2 The writer has gotten everything approved & printed & lost everything in a house fire, including all notes, drafts, EVERYTHING. They wrote a summary of a year's worth of work from memory & notes from their advisor. Back it up! Multiple times, places, formats! #psa

Cautionary tale time! In college, I worked in the library and was organizing the thesis tower one summer (meaning skimming through the theses written by graduates from the ~100 years the school has been around). Came upon a Philosophy thesis of ~30 pages, which is SHORT. 1/2

I love this. Going to look for a Mexican flag magnet right now.

My WorldCon, let me show you it (Seattle WorldCon 2025) It's taken a couple of days, but I feel like I've recuperated a bit from WorldCon. I definitely learned a few lessons. Not the longest strin...

New blog post! My WorldCon, let me show you it: insertscenehere.blogspot.com/2025/08/my-w...

On occasion, he'll just buy me a book he's heard about because he doesn't think I spend enough money on myself. I'll get a text from him telling me to check my email, and there'll be an Amazon gift message with a link and the message "BUUK!" or something similar. Gives me the warm fuzzies. 🥰

Husband will make a point of calling me when he hears about a book on NPR that he thinks I'd like.

You're very welcome! I love doing the write up every year. And I love seeing some of my nominations win!

But of course! I try to live-post them every year, provided my fingers can fing fast enough.

We've got a sing a long for the last verse of Down the Hugo Road! It's gonna be stuck forever, I tell you what. I do appreciate the harmonies of the full choir. And with that, the 2025 #Hugo awards are complete! Thank you for reading along while my fingers fly as fast as I can get them to go.

And the winner is The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett! Video acceptance! "If you're watching this, I'm dead. Or, much less likely, I've won a #Hugo award!" He's a riot.

Time for Best Novel, and we're only a little later than scheduled! I'm impressed. Tempest - "I should not have given you that gummy." Nisi - "We live and learn! Let's keep the judginess where it belongs." A big thanks to the people who have put the #Hugo awards together, as is richly deserved.

The winner is Sheine Lende by Darcie Little Badger! Hopefully the hosts pronounced the title properly? Darcie's hair is a lovely shade of purpley-blue. Ah, they corrected the pronunciation. A little history of the Lipan, a tribe that has been treated shamefully in history. #Hugo

I appreciate that the ASL interpreters are trading off, so it's not just one person doing it - it's an exhausting job, and they're doing a marvelous one. Next is the Lodestar! They almost left someone off, and they read Yoon Ha Lee's book, which the website says they withdrew.

Nisi is having way too much fun with the song, I have to say. Next is Best Novella. The winner is The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler! I have a friend who is celebrating like whoa right now, and of course, it's the one novella I didn't get to read in time. #Hugo

She wants to make sure everyone knows that her husband cannot possibly be like the men in her story, which, fair - it's good to confirm this sort of thing. #Hugo

(For those of you just now following me, I promise I don't use this many exclamation points all the time.) Naomi is in a sparkly blue dress that I adore. The inspiration is how academic men used to thank their (unnamed) wives for typing their work and all other support. #Hugo