I am apparently not terribly inspired with thoughty* words lately, but other people are saying interesting things, and you should read them.

• I'm pretty sure I've raved about jeff_duntemann's work here before -- I've certainly done so other places -- which falls all over SFF land (mostly SF, but at least one in the F side of the equation). Some of his favorite ( Read more... )

So, along with the new C&A trailer, Twostripe spotted the trailer for The Warriors Way, which is, of all things, a ninja western. For all you twitter writers who can't seem to get your head around cowboys in space, is Old West + ninjas any easier? (Also, Spacewesterns.com has a list of all the space westerns that have gone before. Nevermind the ( Read more... )

I just discovered yesterday that the blurring between genres that so mystifies marketing experts and so delights me as a reader can be credited to Philip José Farmer, who died back in February of this year. (I'm doing an obituary writing assignment this week, and among baseball players and actors is SFF writer Farmer.) According to his Los Angeles ( Read more... )

Highlights roughly in order:

• Spent quality time with my parents
• Helped set marks for a sail boat race
• Took a cruise of the Thimble Islands
• Helped pick monster zucchini on one of the Thimbles
• Ate blueberry coffee cake and Dad's Blueberry Pie (TM) with real Michigan blueberries

Apparently, I missed some big news two weeks ago when I didn't read Matt Forbeck's blog. He announced that the Eberron line of novels has been canceled at Wizards of the Coast (see ETAs below for clarification). Apparently the Discoveries line and the Tracy Hickman Presents Dragonlance line have also been canceled ( Read more... )

A fun thing happened while I was in Greece--I received an invitation to submit a biography to the French roleplaying site, GROG: Guide du Roliste Galactique. Of course, I was a bit busy to fill out their questionnaire at the time. Yesterday, I finally got back to the site editor and contributed my biography, which he has already translated and ( Read more... )

Here we are on a thundering Monday, me with plenty to get done and a full to-do list just waiting for some check marks. I think I've finally gotten my head back in the space where I'll actually be able to be productive, too! Which is why I'm finally catching up on an announcement I meant to make last week: I have the great honor of being one of the ( Read more... )