I haven't been writing here much, besides posting poetry under my writing filter and complaining once in awhile about my mental health issues under my general friends filter. I've decided to change that. Not to say that my life has somehow gotten more interesting because, y'know, it hasn't ( Read more... )

I have started going back to therapy, don't know if I mentioned that. She closed her San Francisco office, the office I'm going to is closer and right near a train station. It makes the process a lot easier. Last session I went there and back by myself, and then took the bus from the local train station to gushi 's place of work. I felt like an actual ( Read more... )

Along with publicity - and perhaps more important than publicity - proper book placement at mega-chain bookstores can make or break an author. The publishers pay for shelf space in the same way that businesses pay for retail real estate: the better the location, the higher the cost. Publishers even pay to determine whether the front or the spine of ( Read more... )

Back when I was 19 and an idiot, I was very swoony for Glenn Gould. Not as swoony as the girl I knew in Canada who went to his grave and wept, saying she had no hope for love because only Glenn Gould would ever really be able to understand her, but still about as swoony as some girls got over Morrissey. (Never understood that one, myself.) And let' ( Read more... )

To address the lack of females on the list posted earlier today, I did a bit of research. I ended up looking at the finalists for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer from 2000 to 2007, one of the three major annual awards in science fiction, and making note of the women. Links are to person websites, if they have one.

Elizabeth Bear
K.J. ( Read more... )

This was posted in June, though I just came across it now. The quotes are all from the blogger, not me. I am not one to bandy about Heinlein comparisons so lightly. All links are to the writer's own website.
To what extent do you agree with these choices? Also, is there seriously not one promising, emerging FEMALE science fiction writer in this ( Read more... )

Buried Child was mediocre ( Read more... )

Alipotato: how would you define a comic hero ( Read more... )

So I was talking to this kid in my summer Spanish class who I have to do a presentation with, though most people it seems are just making movies in an attempt to avoid memorizing 15 minutes of dialogue. On the one hand, losers. On the other hand, they probably have productive things going on in their lives. Anyway it evolved into talking about ( Read more... )

I've been writing furiously. I just finished a piece and am starting another one tomorrow. It is satisfying. I am pleased ( Read more... )