Okay, my part in Clarion is over.  Over, that is, except for the Celebrating at the Beach, in which I will partake this evening. Everyone has been very hospitable.  The students have been energetic, highly organized, and very talented, and they’ve made my job easier than I had any right to expect. As they are […]

  I’ll be teaching Clarion for the next week, and so my appearances here may be few, and brief. Yes, it’s my third workshop in, like, six weeks.  And my fourth trip out of town. And it will be awesome!

It took about ten seconds for John MacMichael to guess the answer to my last quiz. Yes, I was in Seattle.  I was there for my agent’s annual retreat, and I caught the Tutankhamun exhibit while I was there. The exhibit was full of lovely stuff, but I was annoyed at the misleading advertising, which […]

Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame never made it to New Mexico, so far as I know, so it took me a while to see it.  Directed by my onetime creative associate Tsui Hark, the film showcases Tsui’s deranged imagination as well as his usual breathtaking imagery. Along with lots of big, […]