First, I need to kickstart my career by 2018.  I just got an invite to be one of the GoHs for Minicon next year. It would be nice if I had something to promote by then ( Read more... )

The Internet landed on Neil Gaiman's head.

Luckily, that soft, curly mop of hair will deflect much of the impact. I'm not worried about Gaiman.  Gaiman will be fine, I'm sure.

Also, it seems very clear to most people that what Gaiman said was meant as an advert/squee/general endorsement, not Word of God.  If you don't want to read the whole article, ( Read more... )

 ...but so Shawn suggested last night, when I confessed to feeling low about my writing, that I do what I used to do... WAY back: set-aside an hour in a place that felt more like an office (a desk, the dining room chair) and just sit there with the document open for an hour.  Set a timer, if necessary.  Try to write.  Write what you can.  Then, ( Read more... )

That's how much science I told my students they needed to know. (Also your magic needs rules ( Read more... )

Some time yesterday afternoon, the rumbling in my guts finally stopped... just in time for me to get ready to teach my Loft SF/F writing class ( Read more... )

Despite what's on most people's minds in the SF world today, I ended up over at Kurtis Scaletta's blog talking about failure. Not the culture of "fail" in the SF community, but my own personal f*ck ups.

"My Biggest Failure: Letting the B-st-rds Get Me Down."Those of you who are regular readers here will have already heard much of what I have to ( Read more... )

Since I'm teaching again, I'm writing about the process of writing again ( Read more... )

I've started following Locus Magazine on Twitter, so I can keep up with the award news as it rolls in. So now I have even more books to add:

According to Locus, "there are several titles of genre interest on the 2015 Baileys Women’s Prize long list":

Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel (Picado)
The Country of Ice Cream Star, Sandra Newman ( ( Read more... )

I finished MEMORY GARDEN by Mary Rickert a few hours ago, and I really came to enjoy it. I didn't think I would, since I've been reading so much science fiction and this book is a contemporary fantasy. The tone of it, though, was also very... quiet, yet suspenseful, not unlike my experience with MEMORY OF WATER by Emmi Itaranta ( Read more... )

Thanks to an unnamed pharmacist at Walgreen's, there is, shall we say, 'movement' in Shawn's recovery ( Read more... )