Attention, anyone who’s trying to write this stuff! Connie Willis and I, with the assistance of George R.R. Martin, will be teaching a master class in writing science fiction and fantasy next year in Taos. The workshop will run July 8-21, 2007. Cost including lodging and almost all meals, $2400.00. The class is called Taos […]

I hear that Mickey Spillane died recently. My acquaintance with the Spillane oeuvre was brief. I was a teenager, staying at a mountain resort with my family. The resort’s common room— the place with the pingpong and card tables and the comfy sofa with its cracked leather cushions— had a bookshelf where people could leave […]

After nearly thirty years as a full-time writer, I’ve finally become self-published! For my amusement, and that of my friends, I’ve put together the Walter Jon Williams/Kathy Hedges Calendar for 2007, featuring photos taken during our journey to Turkey in March and April. It’s full-color, 13.5 inches by 19.00 inches, features a complete list of […]

Jack Williamson died the other day, 80 years after publishing his first science fiction story. He was 98. He had no less than three books out in 2005, pretty impressive for a nonagenarian. Jack was one of the first writers I actually got to talk to. I was a college student, and attended a science […]