Catherynne M. Valente has weighed in on the Puppies and the Hugos this morning (edited to add: apparently this came out awhile ago but was being passed around FB yesterday). I haven't read all the words because I'm suffering a bit of Hugo neepery burnout. That doesn't mean I've stopped thinking about it. In fact, I'm having some thoughts about ( Read more... )

I forgot to write about the one other strangely amusing part of WorldCON ( Read more... )

I'm beginning to recover from WorldCON. I took the train to Chicago on Thursday, which was... well, it was long, and made longer by the fact that I believed the Internet (I know, right?) and decided to hoof it from Union Station. The directions were excellent, just much more of a walk than I was hoping, especially since I was carrying at least one ( Read more... )

At some point, I need to really seriously consider whether or not writing fan fiction feeds some kind of emotional need/addictive personality trait of mine.  One of the things I've discovered now that I've been at this for a while is that there are real emotional ups and downs. I know for a fact that writing fan fic gives me the kind of rush I used ( Read more... )

I thought I should write a quick update about my actual life (as opposed to the lives of my/Kubo-sensei's fictional characters ( Read more... )

Once again, I have been a poor correspondent and have much to catch you all up on. Probably the most exciting news (for me), is that I have completed the revisions for Tate's Precinct 13 (which will be out in August of 2012).


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