Dispatches since 2005
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Announcements, new editions, travel, diving, cooking and the working life of a novelist — 230 entries, all of them here in full.
April 21, 2008 · 332 words
The Starry Rift
After a rather long time in production— something like four years— The Starry Rift is finally available in this country! This is an anthology to which I’d contributed ages ago. Now you can finally read my story “Pinocchio.” If chasing down a story by me doesn’t appeal to you, consider that you’re also chasi
Read entry →April 9, 2008 · 104 words
Flu, Taxes, Reviews
Pardon my intermittent appearances here: I’ve been attempting to fight off a virus (and losing), while trying to get my taxes in sufficient order that my accountant can make sense of them. Both tasks being pretty dreary, as I’m sure you know.Another lovely review from Scifi.com has crossed my path.And I’ve just now hea
Read entry →April 4, 2008 · 333 words
The Raves Keep on Coming
Here I am, blowing the trumpets for Implied Spaces yet again. Though that isn’t quite the right metaphor. I’m just guiding you to places where other people are blowing the trumpets.Here’s a lovely starred review from Kirkus. “From Williams (Conventions of War, 2005, etc.), a far-future science-fiction yarn that employs
Read entry →April 3, 2008 · 199 words
Implied Spaces Reviews
If I can’t brag about my reviews here, where can I? From GreenManReview: “Implied Spaces is an action-packed story written in an elegant and wryly-humorous prose style. If Dumas was alive and writing science fiction, he might well have produced a novel like Implied Spaces.” Can I just say, Like, Wow? And there’s more!
Read entry →April 1, 2008 · 78 words
Implied Spaces Watch
Today is the official release date for Implied Spaces. I haven’t actually seen a copy, and Amazon seems not yet to have it, though of course that could change at any second. So let’s have a contest! Post your Implied Spaces sightings here! Winners will receive a personalized autograph at any time I and your […]
Read entry →April 1, 2008 · 77 words
Cliquot or not Cliquot?
This is Not a Game is done, and sent to the publisher, and with hours to spare! You see me on the verge of pouring the drink I owe Traci, for betting against myself, except that Traci’s not here, and I’ll have to buy her the drink somewhere else. Looks like I’ll have to drink […]
Read entry →March 31, 2008 · 129 words
Got Rich?
So if you’ve got some spare millions lying around, and you want to purchase something solid and real-estate-y to keep your dollars from shrinking evermore, or if you’ve got lots of euros or yen and want to get into real estate bargains in the States, where your foreign currency will buy more every day, then […]
Read entry →March 29, 2008 · 205 words
Hungry
I’m hungry all the time, therefore I must be on a diet.A 1700-calorie, lowfat diet to be precise. With good nutrition. I’ve used this formula twice before, and once dropped forty pounds with it.Another element is that I try to burn at least 500 calories per day in exercise, which means I’m really scraping by […]
Read entry →March 28, 2008 · 80 words
Alibi (1)
The Alibi, Albuquerque’s free weekly alternative, is carrying an interview with me. This is on the subject of martial arts and, tangentially, fiction.The interviewer caught me before I fully caffein’d for the day, but I managed a modest degree of coherence despite the handicap. I also include a martial arts self-defens
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