I’ll be heading to Worldcon tomorrow, and afterwards enjoy a couple weeks’ vacation. This was all planned months ago, without knowing I was going to be trying to finish Heaven in Flames around this time. I finished the penultimate chapter last week, and then decided not to write the finale right away, but go back […]

A couple weeks ago I was on a Zoom panel with several colleagues. It seems the Center for Space Crime, Piracy, and Governance thought that science fiction writers might be useful in contributing to their ongoing discussions. James Cambias was enlisted to wrangle Allen Steele, Geoff Landis, Laura Montgomery, and My Ownself onto the panel, […]

[July 19] I’m pleased to report that I have only a few scenes to write in my long-delayed project, “Heaven in Flames,” the third book in my Metropolitan sequence. It’s taken me three and a half years to get this far. This is by far the longest amount of time I’ve ever taken to write […]

A view from our balcony. Wherever you are in New Mexico, the sunsets are awesome.