I’ll be on Mars, well, in Mars, Pennsylvania, starting on Friday (25 July) through Sunday (27 July) for Confluence, at the Sheraton Starpoint.

Here’s my preliminary schedule (*updated to included panel descriptions and add 2 panels):

FRIDAY, 25 July
6pm - Marshall
Is SFWA Still Relevant?
[Panelists: Denise Verrico (m), Sarah Goslee, Elektra Hammond ( Read more... )

Author Peter J. Wacks just pointed me toward http://storybundle.com/ - an opportunity to pick up a group of epic fantasy ebooks for . . . whatever you choose to pay. Authors include Neil Gaiman, David Farland, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Peter David, and Brandon Sanderson.

There are lots of ( Read more... )

I spent the last weekend in September at the always fun Baltimore Book Festival, helping sell Danielle Ackley-MdPhail books at the SFWA (Science Fiction Writers of America) tent. Much fun was had by all in attendance.

I did panels with amazing, intelligent folks I am proud to have met: Sarah Pinsker, Kate Milford, Harry Heckel, Philippa Ballantine ( Read more... )

This weekend is the 17th Annual Baltimore Book Festival, a three-day extravaganza of book-related fun spread over several blocks of downtown Baltimore. Readings, panels, demos, and signings will be taking place, as well as all manner of books, new and used, for sale. Dark Quest Books is handling the book sales for SFWA (Science Fiction Writers of ( Read more... )

I haven’t said a lot about Chicon-probably because, well, 5 days in Chicago, not quite 3 days home, then 2 days judging a cat show in White Rock, British Columbia. I’m still catching up. There were quite a few high points: going to the bar for a nibble that first night and meeting George R.R. Martin, meeting Jim C. Hines just moments after ( Read more... )

The year 2012 actually started the way a new year is supposed to-with champagne, and music, and friends. Of course, it was a bit of a slow start-I’m still limping from the toe surgery I had on the 28th, and I don’t get my stitches out until the 3rd. I’ve been sitting down a lot.

2011 saw a lot more editing work come my way, as well as my first ( Read more... )

Arcane Society: The Looking Glass Trilogy: In Too Deep by Jayne Ann Krentz (1/2/11)
Midnight Cravings: A collection of Six Sexy Bites by Michele Hauf, Karen Whiddon, Lori Devoti, Anna Leonard, Vivi Anna and Bonnie Vanak (1/5/11)
Princess of the Midnight Ball by Jessica Day George (1/7/11)
Princess of Glass by Jessica Day George (1/7/11)
Demontech: ( Read more... )

I collect bookmarks. Actually, I collect a lot of things (ask me about Whimsiclay ceramic figurines sometime. They’re like potato chips. Or crack). I’ve been hanging on to bookmarks for as long as I can remember-after all, without a bookmark, how do you keep track of where you are in the book/books you’re reading? And I’ve been a voracious reader ( Read more... )

As part of the ongoing “strip the Palm Desktop” project, I’ve pulled all the important info off my calendar. One of the things I tracked there was what I was reading (lame, I know)-at first just books I worked on, with deadlines, then everything (actually, the new version of readerware has a field for that . . . .). But I’d like it somewhere, ( Read more... )

I need to take a poll (prompted by my dh). So I am going to ask, here and on facebook, 3 questions.
1. Do you have a To Be Read pile?
2. If you do, approximately how many books does it contain? Be as specific as you like.
3. Do you work in a field related to writing/publishing?
If there is enough interest, I will publish a summary of the results.