Every so often I feel compelled to remind readers about Taos Toolbox, the master class for science fiction and fantasy, which will be held July 28-August 10, 2013. I will be teaching along with Nancy Kress, and with special lecturer Melinda Snodgrass. Applications will be accepted beginning December 1, 2012, which means you have six […]

I’ve been working on Cat Island, the next of the old seas stories I plan to release in ebook formats.  While I’ve generally been pleasantly surprised to read my earlier works, this is the first of the re-issues that have made me want to go through the book with a machete.  So that’s what I’m […]

Argo  does not seem to be a movie that appeals to the teenage audience.  I don’t think there was a single person under forty in the theater, and most were eligible for Social Security.  I haven’t been in an audience of so many gray-haired people since The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest.  (Retirees love […]

Behold!  The Tern Schooner, the latest in the ebook reissues of my old sailing series, is now available via Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Smashwords. The book was originally published by Dell as The Yankee, in the same month and from the same publisher as The Yankee by Dana Fuller Ross. (Because Dell was just […]