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Announcements, new editions, travel, diving, cooking and the working life of a novelist — 181 entries, all of them here in full.
November 12, 2013 · 56 words
A Quiet Reminder . . .
That you should all be honing your submissions for Taos Toolbox, the master class for writing SF and fantasy, which will be held July 6-19, 2014, in Taos Ski Valley. Teaching will be Nancy Kress, Walter Jon Williams, and special lecturer Ian Tregillis. Submissions open on December 1! And in the meantime, sharpen your p
Read entry →November 10, 2013 · 154 words
Nudibranchs in Love
Mother Ocean must be singing songs of sweet, sweet love, because I keep finding nudibranchs in pairs. Nudibranchs are found all over the reef, and most of them are small and lovely. (The shorter nudis in these photos are only a couple centimeters long.) Nudibranchs are basically sea snails that have lost, or rather dra
Read entry →November 10, 2013 · 187 words
Bandwidth
A note on the bandwidth here. The last photo I uploaded took 40 minutes. The last email I sent took over an hour. For the last two or three days, I’ve got no email at all. This I could perhaps have dealt with gracefully: if it doesn’t Send the first time, you just keep hitting […]
Read entry →November 5, 2013 · 425 words
Picture of the day
This turtle was, for some reason, quite interested in me. He sailed along the reef, encountered me taking pictures, and then circled me two or three times before moving on. He was maybe four feet long, and quite blasé about meeting us. Maybe turtles are blasé about everything. There are more turtles here than I’ve [&he
Read entry →October 31, 2013 · 74 words
Open Topic
Since I’m going to be flying a dozen time zones in the next couple days, I’m not going to be here much. So I’m going to do as friend of the blog TRX suggested recently, and have an open topic. If you have any questions, want to make any announcements, or have any good jokes, […]
Read entry →October 31, 2013 · 115 words
Going Bamboo
I had one of those birthdays just recently, one with a zero in it that’s supposed to be a landmark of some sort. So, in the spirit of flipping the bird at my birthday, I’m getting on a plane today and going to Indonesia for nearly three weeks. I’ll be mostly on the island of […]
Read entry →October 30, 2013 · 64 words
The Rift: Now at Smashwords!
For those of you waiting, The Rift is finally available at Smashwords, though only in epub format. It seemed to choke on anything else, and I couldn’t tell if that was their fault, or that of the manuscript. From Smashwords it will migrate to Sony, iBooks, Diesel, and other sites. And naturally it’s still available at
Read entry →October 29, 2013 · 2,130 words
Rifting Down the Mississippi
Some thoughts on my novel The Rift, which has now been re-released in electronic form, and is available via Amazon, Nook, and Kobo. (I’ve been trying to load and convert the file onto Smashwords for something like 30 hours, and it seems to have comprehensively crashed. All I can get now is “500 Internal Server Error,”
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