Elizabeth Cobbe

Literary & Speculative Fiction Author

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  • The Writer and Her Day Job:

    The Joy of Unmasking Oneself at Work Earlier this summer, the internal communications person for our very large department at our very large place of employment invited me to write a newsletter feature about my writing career. I was on the fence. As Olympia Dukakis says in Moonstruck, “Don’t s— where you eat.” But at Continue reading

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  • 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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  • 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

  • Don’t Look Too Close: 2022 at a Glance

    This year was an exercise in changing focus. Many times. I began the year by sending out queries for a novel, and then promptly putting that novel out of my mind to focus on a new book. Then, in the summer, I turned to short stories for a bit to give the other book time Continue reading

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  • Past Cast Hast Passed at Last

    In 2022, I have read not one, not two, but three novels in which people experience some variety of trauma as young theater students, and then years later confront the effects on their lives. They’re all very well written, but I gotta say, you guys… I don’t know what kind of theater classes y’all attended, Continue reading