I will not longer be using this space for my blog. For news and other bloggy things, come visit me at http://acebauer.com/blog/

I'm excited to announce that I will appearing be at this year’s Boskone, Friday, Feb. 13 through Sunday, Feb. 15, at the Westin Waterfront Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts. Boskone is New England's longest running science fiction and fantasy convention. This will be my first time there ( Read more... )

( Read more... )

( Read more... )

A useful list: http://cielrouge.tumblr.com/post/72745021204/fiction-reads-featuring-asian-and-asian-american.

Thanks to Angry Girl Comics for the heads up.

This weekend I listened to a fascinating piece on NPR about women in cinema. Essentially, although women are half the movie-goers in the U.S., they have only 17% of the onscreen roles-including crowd scenes. Off screen isn’t much better: women represent 7 percent of directors, 13 percent of writers, and 20 percent of producers ( Read more... )

( Read more... )

This piece by Tobias Buckell talks about how a whole lot of advice given to aspiring authors is not really useful ( Read more... )

I will be at book fairs the next two Saturdays.


( Read more... )

It's with great sadness that I learned that E.L. Konigsburg has died. She was one of my heroes.

I wrote about her on Write Up Our Alley a few months ago. What I said then still holds true today: E. L. Konigsburg’s work has always been an inspiration to me. She was not afraid to take risks. She wrote for all age groups; focused on multiple genres ( Read more... )