Donyae Coles

Jan 13, 2025 | redferret.net | Donyae Coles

Cooking Oil to 3D Printing – new research develops a way to recycle oil If you cook you’ve probably got a jar of used oil sitting somewhere near your stove. Hopefully you’re not dumping it down the drain. Most people put it out with the trash but what if you could recycle it? Researchers from the University of Toronto have devised a way to turn used oil from McDonald’s into 3D printing resin that is biodegradable.

Jul 24, 2024 | nightmare-magazine.com | Wendy Wagner |Donyae Coles

The Raven: Tales and PoemsEdgar Allan Poe; edited by S.T. Joshi, series editor, Guillermo Del ToroISBN: 978-0143122364Penguin Classics, October 2013, 352 pages(Many other editions available; in the public domain)I don’t like “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe. This is what I’m thinking while I am helping my daughter through the last bits of her Gothic Literature class. She doesn’t actually need my help, she just wants it. The class was taught by a woman who was clearly passionate about the Gothic.

Jul 5, 2024 | writersdigest.com | Donyae Coles

Finding an agent can be a long and daunting task. For many hopeful authors it’s the first gauntlet in a long line of them that is the road to publication. Which is why I always feel a little guilty admitting that I didn’t find my agent. (Successful Queries.)My agent, Lane Heymont, approached me after reading one of the short stories that I’d had published. I think it was “Séance” published with Pseudopod but it might have been “A Blessing” from Black Girl Magic Magazine.

May 16, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | T Kingfisher |Donyae Coles |Prashanth Srivatsa |Lev Grossman

Jonathan Strahan. Tachyon, $18.95 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-61696-420-7Hugo Award winner Strahan (Twelve Tomorrows) spotlights 15 sophisticated, award-winning science fiction stories from the past decade that epitomize the best of space opera. He defines the genre as “romantic adventure... told on a grand scale,” set either in space or on a space station with high-stakes plot—and each of these perceptive and evocative stories perfectly fits the bill. In Tobias S.

Feb 17, 2024 | redferret.net | Donyae Coles

Seventeen long years ago I wrote a piece here called The Gadget Manifesto. It was a rant borne out of frustration with the relentless increase in junk technology. The problem was basically too much Far Eastern manufacturing capacity chasing too few consumers. Result…price plummeting, quality plummeting, consumers suffering. I’m revisiting this subject only because it looks like we’re clearly not going to reverse course any time soon.