It occurs to me that in the last year, three of my former Taos Toolbox students sold novels.  (In fact, one sale wasn’t just a novel, it was a whole trilogy.) While I can’t guarantee that every Toolbox graduate will sell a novel, I think the data support the notion that it will increase your […]

We went to see The King’s Speech, which was quite good even though there were no surprises, because I’d seem the same story dramatized in a television movie a couple years ago.  The story was the same, but the climactic scene was different: in the TV movie, the big scene was George VI’s first speech […]

Via Sarah, news of the first observational evidence of the existence of other universes.  And they didn’t find just one footprint, they found four. Nothing in physics prevents the possibilities of outside universes, but neither has it helped to constrain them, leaving scientists free to talk of branes and bubbles. Many of these ideas have […]

It has to be admitted that 2011 is starting out well, with the first review of Deep State showing up in my inbox. I would quote at length, but it’s full of spoilers, so let me just give you the last two paragraphs. It’s an exciting mix of spy thriller, adventure, and romance, and as […]