I am inordinately fond of time travel stories. I've published a few of my own, (see, e.g., ( "Liza's Home", "Conflagration" and "The Never Fair"), and long argued that their juxtaposition and confusion of memory and expectation allow for a kind of emotional resonance you can't achieve anywhere else. Tell me a book is about time travel, and I'll ( Read more... )

Clarion Report, Week Three

( Under the cut, because it's long )

This is long, so it's under the cut for those who aren't interested.

( Week One Clarion Report )

I am delighted (and astonished) to announce that I will be attending the next Clarion Writers Workshop in San Diego this summer, from June 28 to August 8. I knew about this a while ago, but we weren't supposed to tell anyone until our names appeared on the Web site as the Class of 2009.

My seventeen fellow students are from as far away as Australia ( Read more... )