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Announcements, new editions, travel, diving, cooking and the working life of a novelist — 119 entries, all of them here in full.
April 19, 2022 · 59 words
Sympathetic
James Davis Nicoll has made a favorable mention of Metropolitan in his Tor.com article “5 Sympathetic Science Fiction Bureaucrats.” My ambitious button-pushing heroine Aiah has finally got a bit of respect. The article mentions only five bureaucrats, but the comments offer many more. It seems that SF might be more symp
Read entry →April 10, 2022 · 70 words
LOTR Rap
You’ve probably seen this by now, but if that’s the case, now you can see it again. Stephen Colbert, who has praised Lord of the Rings to the skies for decades now, celebrates the 20th anniversary of the film’s release by breaking into song— or anyway rap. He’s aided by a surpassing pack of guest […]
Read entry →April 7, 2022 · 193 words
The Schedule of Me
I am in Portales. The Jack Williamson Lectureship has already started, with Connie Willis interviewing me, and will continue tomorrow, with five hours of programming featuring, well, me. You can watch live over Youtube. Here are the links. The schedule is as follows. Remember that we’re in Mountain Daylight Time. Frida
Read entry →April 3, 2022 · 125 words
Eyeworthy
The world’s only Gothic Western science fiction police procedural will shortly have new cover art, courtesy of the fantastic Elizabeth Leggett. Days of Atonement has a long, sad history with cover art, starting with the atrocity on the original hardback, then graduating to my own poor attempts to put something together
Read entry →March 31, 2022 · 58 words
Arise, Arise!
The first of my historical novels, To Glory Arise, is now available as an audio book from Audible, narrated by Bronson Pinchot. And speaking of audio books, The Praxis, The Sundering, and Conventions of War are now available in their new, revised editions, narrated by the fantastic Stefan Rudnicki. Go forth and give yo
Read entry →March 29, 2022 · 77 words
Goalworthy
The Shaper of Worlds Kickstarter is within a few hundred bucks of making its goal. There are still three spaces left in my kaffeeklatsch, and each will set you back a mere $400 CDN. (None of the money goes to me, it goes to publishing costs and to the authors— oh wait, I guess I […]
Read entry →March 27, 2022 · 102 words
Return to Portales
I will be the guest of honor at the 45th Jack Williamson Lectureship, April 7-9, in lovely and hospitable Portales, NM. Connie Willis will be the toastmaster, and I assume the usual assortment of New Mexico writers and fans will be present, along with representatives of the Williamson family. It occurs to me that I [&h
Read entry →March 24, 2022 · 64 words
Sharing
Mary Anne Mohanraj leads a discussion of writing for shared worlds. Besides myself, there’s fellow Wild Cards writers David Levine (and Mary Anne), and Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman (and Mary Anne) of Tremontaine. This panel was recorded Saturday afternoon at ICFA, and the amusing thing was that though we were all pr
Read entry →March 15, 2022 · 87 words
ICFA
I’m off to the International Conference of the Fantastic in the Arts. Which is held in Florida, where people demand the freedom to infect their friends, co-workers, and family with a deadly virus, but aren’t allowed to say the word “gay.” I’ve got a single panel on Friday, on “the business of writing,” which I [&hellip
Read entry →March 13, 2022 · 63 words
My Kind of Stamp
Ukrposhta, the Ukrainian post office, will release a new stamp based on the iconic moment when the border guards on Snake Island transmitted, “Russian warship, go fuck yourself!” The design, by artist Boris Groh, won a contest over nineteen other entries. I hope that we’ll be able to buy these stamps once they are avai
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