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Announcements, new editions, travel, diving, cooking and the working life of a novelist — 226 entries, all of them here in full.

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  1. December 31, 2012 · 34 words

    Your New Year Resolution

    If you want to be a writer, here’s a New Year resolution for you. “This year I’m going to become a real writer, and to that end, I’m going to apply to Taos Toolbox.”

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  2. December 29, 2012 · 1,987 words

    Dive Odyssey (Part Two)

    Coral Sea memories,continued. Organized by topic. Breathing. Always one of those things we divers have to take seriously. It has to be admitted, right off, that my air consumption sort of sucks. I use up a tank of air quicker than I should— not crucially, horribly, but quickly enough so that it bothers me. [&hell

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  3. December 28, 2012 · 1,299 words

    Dive Odyssey (Part One)

    I was looking through the photos of my dive trip and thought this picture was one of my better efforts It shows how colorful and diverse underwater life can be, and it was taken at a shallow enough depth that the color flash. Most of my photos tend to be on the blue and green […]

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  4. December 24, 2012 · 229 words

    Tamale Season

    I haven’t been posting much the last few days, but that’s because I’ve been having Holiday Fun, which mainly involves meeting with friends, then eating and drinking too much. Plus of course there’s all the maintenance I needed to do around the house when I was traveling, and now need to do now that I’m […]

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  5. December 20, 2012 · 26 words

    The Sequel

    History has its sequels, just like the movies. And like the movies, the sequels tend to get worse and worse. Take, for example, the Spanish Armada(s).

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  6. December 19, 2012 · 758 words

    Bloated (But Pleasing)

    I saw The Hobbit today in all its 48fps glory, which shows considerable restraint considering the hype I endured all those weeks Down Under. An example of which I offer you here, the safety video I sat through on each of my Air New Zealand flights. It was funny the first time. I was prepared to […]

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  7. December 18, 2012 · 144 words

    Ho Ho Ho

    Behold! It is the special Walter Jon Williams issue of Subterranean Magazine, which features not only my classic story “Surfacing” but my new novella “The Boolean Gate,” which you can now read for free. (Which means that you don’t absolutely have to […]

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  8. December 15, 2012 · 64 words

    Jetl;ag. Jetlap. Jetlag.

    I’m back in New Mexico after over six weeks abroad. The security people in New Zealand tried to have me thrown off the plane, but eventually it got sorted. I think it’s down to my astonishing physical resemblance to Abu Nidal. I don’t know if anyone else has noticed this, but while I was away […]

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  9. December 13, 2012 · 111 words

    The Sailor Home From the Sea

    I’m off the dive boat, and back in the rather discouraging town of Cairns. During the last week I’ve racked up 25 dives in the Coral Sea and on the Great Barrier Reef, both of which were full of Teh Awesome. I haven’t got my land legs back, so when I walk around, the earth […]

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  10. December 5, 2012 · 45 words

    Taos Toolbox

    Taos Toolbox, the master class for science fiction and fantasy, is now open for submissions! So send your story. Don’t worry about how I’m going to read it while I’m on a boat in the Coral Sea. That’s my problem. Just send your work.

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  11. December 5, 2012 · 114 words

    Melting

    I landed in Cairns in the middle of a heat wave, with temperatures of 38 degrees Celsius. Which, for those of you on Fahrenheit, is well past the temperature at which Walter melts. So instead of venturing forth for adventure, I’ve been hiding in my hotel room, where there’s air conditioning, and only leaving for [&hell

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  12. December 3, 2012 · 153 words

    View From Above

    A view of Akaroa Harbor from the pass above. The bay and its towns are situated in the caldera of an extinct volcano. To get there we had to drive along the crater rim, which meant ordering up a slice of road with Extra Twisty. Akaroa was the place where 57 French colonists landed in […]

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