Last night, I had a dream about attending the Nebula Awards in my pajamas.

Oh... Dr. Freud.  I'm not even subtle, am I?

First of all, I am actually going to the Nebula Awards Weekend this year.  It's in in May, in Chicago, (which is close to home), and my friend Naomi went last year because her friend Helene (Wecker, who wrote The Golem & the Jinni) ( 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... )

*throws up in mouth ( Read more... )

I ignore Tate Hallaway a lot ( Read more... )

For Shawn's birthday this year, my mom got the most PERFECT card. It shows a woman dumping left-over food into the trash and her dialogue bubble says, "La-la-la-la, I'm throwing my vegetables away and no one can stop me!" The inside reads, "There are some perks to growing older ( Read more... )

The only movie I've ever liked Nick Nolte in was "The Good Thief." He plays a drug-addled, washed out jewel thief who gets talked into a casino heist by a police officer/former rival. There's a scene where the cop is trying to explain the details of the heist, and he asks Nolte's character, "Do you remember the 80s, Bob?" To which Nolte replies ( Read more... )

I understand why people talk about Muses when they try to describe the creative process. It's because writing is a confidence game. Most days I can fool myself into believing I'm brillant and that my ideas are cool and worth pursuing. Today, I'm having one of those days where every idea I try to come up with seems cliche and stupid ( Read more... )

I think I may have actually deleted a thoughtful response to my "Fan Fiction Addiction" post.  I've been getting super-spammed here at LJ, and I think I may have hit "delete" out of habit.  I reprinted what the commenter said and my response to it in the comments of the previous post.  I hope she or he isn't offended that it seemed to go away.... ( 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... )

On Friday I got my editorial letter from Penguin for Tate's newest novel Precinct 13.  Shawn and I were off celebrating "anniversary observed" and so I didn't really see it in my in-box until yesterday.  Today is the first day I'm sitting down and really looking at it.  First of all, it's seventeen pages long.  That's pretty long, though my editor ( Read more... )