So I'm here, waiting for friends to come back from seeing a play in order to pick me up. I'm early, and we all expected me to be late. Like my arrival at Chicago--I had a perfect afternoon planned with interesting people, but the train in was so late due to an engine blow up at Grand Junction and an engine shuffle in Denver that I got hustled off ( Read more... )

I'm at Sirens, having had an excellent time. This con is 99% women, with a friendly, inclusive atmosphere and everywhere you go, talk about books. And writing. As happens when I get into this kind of atmosphere, several insights, and veering between a sharp sense of my own inadequacies and the euphoria of shared delight in reading.

Today's BVC ( Read more... )

Fair Winds and Homeward Sail is a very short novel that I wrote for fun. It takes Soppy Croft from Jane Austen's Persuasion and gives her a back story, and also addresses one of my misgivings about the book. (The other one, a major logic flaw, I feel Austen would have fixed if she hadn't died before she could polish this one.) KindleI did several ( Read more... )

Just did a podcast, a first for me. If I don't sound like too much of a gasbag and a whacktoon, will post link when it goes live.

Sirens is putting out the call for programming. This excellent, excellent con that focuses on women in fantasy draws its programming from its members. If you've ever wanted to organize a panel, present a roundtable ( Read more... )

Nalo Hopkinson is going to be third GOH at Sirens--details hereAnd this is up in Oregon, much more accessible than Vail, Co ( Read more... )

This wonderful con, focusing on women in fantasy, is moving its venue to the jaw-droppingly beautiful country along the Columbia River next year, here, October 11-14. Previously it was set in Vail, Colorado, a beautiful site, but very hard to get to, and some had problems with being 9,000 feet above sea level. No such problem at the Columbia River ( Read more... )

The call for programming, and promise of a scholarship for programmers for Sirens 2011 makes me think about the whole programming thing. Well, 'think' is probably too strong a word for two hours of sleep ( Read more... )

News for SIRENS, October 2011 in beautiful Vail, Colorado.

Sirens is firing up to get ready for another excellent gathering at beautiful Vail in October.

Women in fantasy--writing reading--hanging out--talking in a relaxed atmosphere full of smart people--that's what makes it worth the two thousand mile round trip to attend.

See coraa's post here and here for our trip so far (in other entries she's got excellent panel and roundtable notes); now we are at Writers' Horse Camp for several more days. Already Rachel and I have gotten two goals met, and I got another met. Cora's written most of a short story. Every time we come to Camp we get tons done, while having fun with ( Read more... )