Elizabeth Cobbe

Literary & Speculative Fiction Author

Elizabeth

  • Best Books of the Century: The Me Edition

    Has everybody seen the recent NYTimes feature in which they compiled the votes of 500+ writers and other publishing luminaries and created a list of the 100 best books of the twenty-first century so far? They also offered a ballot where readers can supply their own 10 titles. Here are mine! I assume by the Continue reading

  • Wishing Golf Upon Them All

    It’s been a minute. I’ve been in my burrow, working hard at getting the current book ready to send to my agent. This past week I passed what is a personal but vital milestone: one of my most astute readers offered her feedback, and pronounced that It Does Not Suck. We appear to have reached Continue reading

  • Favorite Reading of 2023

    As a reader, books carried me through a brutally hot and interminable summer and offered a much-needed escape. Here are my favorites from those released in 2023. Continue reading

  • The widening window

    Happy fall season, readers! In the grand tradition of explaining why one hasn’t posted in several weeks, I offer up that I have been devoting every spare minute to finishing the draft of my next novel, a glowing ember of a story about what it means to choose joy in the face of evil. Finally, Continue reading

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  • Some Orcs Just Want to Make Coffee

    Here are links to books that we’re discussing in the panel “Some Orcs Just Want To Make Coffee: Cozy SF/F/H”, Friday at 8 p.m. at ArmadilloCon. Joining me on the panel are Avery Parks, Dantzel Cherry, and Elle van Hensbergen. We’re planning to discuss four books and in what ways they represent cozy speculative fiction. Continue reading

  • ArmadilloCon 2023!

    ArmadilloCon begins today, and I’m looking forward to appearing on four panels: It should be a great mix. Hope to see you there! Continue reading

  • So long, bluebonnets!

    We’ve reached May, which in Central Texas means we’ve hit the end of bluebonnet season. There are still a few purple dots on the side of the road, but they’re not long for this world. Because this is the internet, I won’t list all the lessons this spring afforded me. Some had to do with Continue reading

  • What You Do with Erosion

    There’s a utilities easement not far away from where we live. When we first moved there, it was a decent sort of meadow, full of fire ant hills and nasty burs and waist-high thorny bushes and other things that want to stab you. Still, all naturally occurring parts of the Central Texas ecosystem. Now, I Continue reading

  • The Creative Bone

    A few people have said to me of late, “I don’t have a creative bone in my body!” So many layers to unpack. Often people say this sort of thing if I speak for longer than 1.6 seconds about my writing, which I have generally learned to avoid doing because it’s like when the physicians Continue reading

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  • Favorite Reading of 2022

    Some favorites released in 2022: Sea of Tranquility. Multiple timelines, a sci-fi edge, well-drawn characters. A story about plagues and how much we can affect the world around us. My favorite of the year. Joan Is Okay. A touching and hilarious voice, an endearing narrator, and an engrossing story of New York in 2020, COVID Continue reading