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The book release party at WorldCon was wonderful. We pretty much sold out all the copies of Pandora's Gun. Food and drink lasted to the end. All kinds of folk came by. Patrick Swenson throws a heck of a party with the help of several people, including Louise Marley (thanks for the cookies and other munchies ), Brenda Cooper (for transportation and ( Read more... )

Daily Science Fiction bought my short piece, "Experience Arcade." That is one of the stories I've written as part of my story-a-week-for-a-year challenge to myself.

I'm happy to announce that my short story, "This Story Will Win a Hugo," which originally appeared in DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, will be reprinted in the FAR ORBIT - APOGEE anthology that should be out in October, 2015.

Looks like this wasn't the best year to have a story eligible for a Hugo that was entitled "This Story Will Win a Hugo."

There's been an avalanche of pixels spent on the Hugos and the Sad/Rabid Puppy turmoil. Some of the discussion is about how should we read authors whose personal views or actions seem repugnant? How do we separate the artist from the artist's work?

Also, and more specifically, how do I read works on the Sad/Rabid Puppy slates when I'm opposed to the ( Read more... )

On my want list is a wall with the covers of my books, beautifully framed.  I'd have to keep it in a dark part of the house where people didn't go because it would look somewhat like a wall of self portraits and be just as self indulgent (at least it would feel that way to me), but it would be a place where I could go some times if I was feeling ( Read more... )

My YA novel, PANDORA'S GUN will debut at WorldCon in Spokane this August.  Fairwood Press, who has done my other books, will be doing this as well. It will be their first foray into the YA market. Yay! I'm ecstatic.

More news as it becomes available.

In the meantime, story #6 is coming along more slowly than the first five stories. I don't know that ( Read more... )

I received an e-mail from an ex-student tonight. He was in my science fiction class eight years ago, and he told me that he took the short story that I'd thought highly of then and turned it into a novel. But he doesn't know what to do now with it. He wondered if I had advice on finding an agent ( Read more... )

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