of books and phoenixes

I'm reading at Bakka-Phoenix in Toronto with A.D. Sui and Suzan Palumbo on Saturday afternoon. Come say hi if you're around!

Meanwhile, let's enjoy my poll-creation powers.

Poll #31964

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What selection from North Continent Ribbon should I read?

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The scene where the assassin meets the spaceship princess.
3 (23.1%)

The scene where Ise tells their little brother about the evil trains.
5 (38.5%)

A different scene I will talk about in comments.
0 (0.0%)

You've got a ticky box in your book somewhere, right?
8 (61.5%)

PSA: personalized phishing scam

My personal information was stolen during the recent AT&T data breach.

Today, I got an email asking me to call the writer back, in reference to a made-up account number, because I might be eligible for student loan forgiveness. There are two obvious problems with this message:

(1) Due to a bunch of undergrad scholarships and a generous postdoc fellowship, I haven't had student loans for more than a decade.

(2) The email included the address of an apartment where I lived for exactly one year, many years ago. Coincidentally, that's also the one year I had an AT&T phone plan.

Keep an eye on your business emails, especially if your life has been less peripatetic than mine! I have a feeling these fakes are only going to get more persuasive.