Credit Where It's Due

Though we understand the backstory rationale, Tam's blog quality has slipped somewhat since going comment-free some years back (which potential fate is the only reason we still tolerate the occasional jackhole poster here, at least until we spam-tag their IP), but proving that writing for a living hones the craft if you let it, she's still got it when it counts, which is why it's still a regular visit.

This genius-level turn of phrase in this sentence requires a standing slow clap:

Message Fic 

A critique flung at authors of fiction who get too polemical, first recorded in use against H.G. Wells, is that they'd sold their artistic birthright for a pot of message.

If you have the cultural literacy to see what she did there, you'll recognize that unlike a steak, that's both medium rare, and well done. And since we can't say it there, we offer it here: Kudos.