Today is Fetish-Kitty's last day, and her vet was not only kind enough to make a house-call appointment to put her to sleep, but also is not charging for the service. I guess she's been such a good customer, especially over the past year ( Read more... )

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Gosh, I haven't made a life update for a while. Had an amazing week or so! Including:

• Book release and after-party tonight, Friday Nov. 5! Release is at Jayhawk Ink in the KU student union, with the after-party at my house from then until late. Hope to see you there!
• Just got my auto-deposit from the feds. Paid the mortgage & bills and will help ( Read more... )

I'm super-excited about holding the real-live hardcover copy of TRANSCENDENCE in my sweaty palms! Here it is, along with two more novels coming out from Hadley Rille Books in short order, FINDER by Terri-Lynne DeFino and THE NORTHERN QUEEN by Kim Vandervort:

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siro_gravity asked about me and dogs - don't I just have cats and hamsters? Yes, I've had dogs!


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A friend going through a difficult patch requested a funny story. Not being a joke-teller, I wrote up a tale from my childhood, and thought I'd share it here, and figured I oughta make this a regular feature. So, without further ado, here's the story of how I quit smoking:In the summer between my fifth and sixth grades, one of my best friends stole ( Read more... )

That was an intense month, folks. It feels as if the first arrivals for the summer program (Jean, who's spent his summers in Kansas for at least seven years, and Kij, who's been part of the summer program since she won the Sturgeon in 1995) just arrived... but that was at the end of June. Then two weeks of SF Workshops (Kij's novel in one room, my ( Read more... )

Still alive - STOP
Science Fiction Institute wraps tomorrow evening - STOP
Finals grading begins immediately thereafter - STOP
Fall semester begins a week after that - STOP
Have begun work in earnest on next novel - STOP
Need a month's vacation. STOP

Hope you're doing well!

Chris

We're four days into the first week of Intensive Institute on the Teaching of Science Fiction; I'll be up for air in eight more days, but in the mean time, if something cool or big has happened in your life, I'd love to hear about it here!

Thanks!
Chris

Last night was my and Kij's SF Workshops gathering where everyone gets to know one another, and where we talk about how things work in the workshops, logistics, and theory. It also coincided with my birthday this year, which is about the time my first novel ARCs are being printed, so Jean (and others, I hear) made me this awesome cake:


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