I am off to Conzilla, Westercon 59, in lovely San Diego, which will be running July 1-4. The committee has done me the kindness of making me the Guest of Honor. Bob Eggleton, Bobby Armbruster, and Kevin J Anderson are the other guests. It should be fun. I am participating in an Iron Chef competition, […]

The following were actually said during critiques at Rio Hondo, and thus make up the Rio Hondo Virtual T-Shirt. Thanks to Michaela Roessner and Nina Kiriki Hoffman for recording these. *”I don’t have many problems with this, and I can’t pretend to.” Gavin *”What you’ve got is two climaxes and a dying fall with a […]

This weekend, I participated as a judge in the tests of 133 candidates for black belt in the American Kenpo Karate Academy. Candidates had come from all over the country for this twice-yearly event. Some had come from sea level to test at 7000 feet on a hot, dusty mountain meadow. We started the testing […]

30 March, 2006 Tomb of a Poet The day began at a brutal hour of the morning. Our bags had to be packed and ready outside our rooms by 6am, so that hotel minions could carry them to the buses. I would have been perfectly happy sleeping an extra half-hour and carrying my own bag, […]