Originally posted by kate_nepveu at announcing 2012 Con or Bust auction

I am pleased to announce this year's auction to support Con or Bust, which helps fans of color/non-white fans attend SFF conventions. Bidding starts Saturday, February 11, 2012 at 12:01 a.m. EST (GMT -5) and ends Sunday, February 25, 2012 at 11:59 p.m. EST. You may post auction offers and ( Read more... )

I know this doesn't matter to anyone, but--I'm totally tickled about Daniel Craig's marriage to Rachel Weisz. May they prosper and have a long pleasant life together.

Fridtjof Nansen is one of those historical figures I would not not only want to meet, but totally have my fangirl way with.  This guy was the last of the Vikings--if he'd been leading the Norse at Stamford Bridge instead of Harald Hardraada, William the Bastard woulda been a fat wannabe sack of fail in history footnotes.

It's nice to see other ( Read more... )

Damn, I wish I had $2K burning a hole in my pocket.

 Nalo Hopkins accepting applications for mentorship.

I was super lucky in that a million years ago, when I was putting chapters of The Horses of Achilles up at the OWW, she critiqued one of 'em.  I've never forgotten that.

I was feeling pretty bummed tonight, so I watched Alice in Chain videos, reliving some of my glory days. And then I started sniffing around on the net, and holy cow, they've got a new album dropping in 12 days. Wow ( Read more... )

Okay, the man cannot write more than one kind of sex scene, and he's hopelessly sentimental. He trots out macho gingerbread paragraphs like Homer did epithets, but with hella more punctuation than Cormac McCarty. Yet when I started writing 'for real,' he was a revelation. The novel of his I read before I got into the Robicheaux series was The ( Read more... )

Heh. Now that I've got your attention:

sartorias has come up with a gobsmacking idea about doing an online con in January. The possibilities are amazing, brilliant, and reek of skiffy.

I think this could make a little history, whattaya say?

Go here and create, my friends.

(The Tobias Buckell comment has to do with a suggestion to sartorias that he would be a ( Read more... )

Oh man, this looks like the beach book for me.

Er, what I think of as a beach book.

Sly Mongoose, by Tobias Buckell

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I'm finally home ( Read more... )

Off I go!

See you there!

Talk to you when I get back!