Off Again

April 13, 2023

So I’m off to the Llano Estecado for the annual Jack Williamson Lectureship, this year featuring guest Arkady Martine. I’ll hope the plumbing doesn’t blow up while I’m away. Either way, I’ll check in when I get back.

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Freedom . . . from water

April 11, 2023

I was starting to breathe the air of freedom, for I’ve done all my Taos Toolbox reading and delivered the taxes to the accountant, which between them was taking up about 80% of my energy. And then the water pressure died, and there was no water in the house. This necessitated an after-hours visit from […]

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It’s Never A Good Day When Your Septic Goes Bad

March 31, 2023

If you’re allergic to discussions involving human waste, read no farther. I forgive you. We’ve hired some people to renew the trim on our house, and three days ago they discovered that a freshwater spring had opened in the back yard. Which is arid New Mexico sandy desert, so a freshwater spring isn’t exactly what […]

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I’m on TV!

March 29, 2023

I haven’t been posting here because I’m being buried in work. None of this— except writing the novel, I hope— will matter a damn in ten years, but I still have to do it, beginning with my taxes, which for last year is incredibly complex. But for those of you looking for more of ME, […]

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Kicked Into Shape

March 14, 2023

Edward Willett not only delivers an regular podcast interviewing writers of SF&F, he’s also been editing big doorstopper collections of (mostly) original SF for three volumes now, and he’s opened a Kickstarter for Volume IV. Give the fella a hand, won’t you?

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Speaking Polish

March 11, 2023

The multitalented Scott Edelman has been conducting interviews with writers at restaurants since before the pandemic. Here he interviews me over a Polish meal at South Boston’s Cafe Polonia. As well as more recent events, the interview focuses attention on my early career, which may be of interest to some of you. Again, Episode 193 […]

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Success, One Toolbox at a Time

March 4, 2023

Warlock at Law, by a husband and wife team writing as R.L. Baranowski, has just been released. The Baranowskis attended Taos Toolbox in 2019, just before the pandemic brought everyone to a screeching halt. Everyone but writers, see, because we work in isolation anyway. What impressed me about the Baranowskis was that they were dedicated, […]

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Bones

March 4, 2023

This is a skeleton excavated from an Athenian graveyard under the Acropolis. You’ll notice what looks like a bone plate lying atop the skeleton’s spine. This is what a fused spine looks like. This gent led a hard working life, either as a slave or manual laborer. He must have spent his last years in […]

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Sounion/Byron

March 1, 2023

Here’s the temple to Poseidon at Cape Sounion, perched on a cliff at the very tip of the Attic peninsula, viewed on our trip to Greece last year. You’re not allowed to walk on the monument nowadays, but it was very different when I first saw the temple forty-odd years ago. I not only walked […]

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Double Sale for the Toolbox

February 26, 2023

M.V. Melcer (Taos Toolbox ’16), has sold a two-book deal to Storm Press. The first volume should appear in October. I would like to suggest that you don’t want to fall too far behind. If you have ambitions to write and sell science fiction or fantasy, by all means follow Ms. Melcer’s example and apply […]

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