I’m in Boston right now staring out the window at snow, so I won’t be doing much posting here over the weekend. So y’all do it. Feel free to have a chat.  Just remember to keep it civil.

I’ll be in Boston for Boskone this coming weekend, and if you’re in the area you should definitely stop by and say hello. Here’s my schedule, to make it all the easier to find me. The New SF/F Thriller Friday 20:00 – 20:50 Here’s one subgenre that’s really taken hold these days. Examples: Neal Stephenson’s […]

In another of our series of tips for writers, a brief cautionary video about what might happen once you start getting lost in your own complicated fantasy epic. <via Terry England> UPDATE: Well, the embed code sucketh, so it won’t play here.  But you can clink the handy link, so that you’ll be transported to their […]

The Day the Music Died was 55 years ago today.  This is the only video I could find of Buddy Holly performing, though— as there’s no guitar lead visible— I imagine he’s just miming to his own record. But then he was far from the last person to mime a Buddy Holly song, now was […]