You wrote something. It’s good. So good it amazes you. You wonder if you might actually be able to sell this, become an author. You want to show it off. You have a friend who is a published author. Here is why NOT to ask them to look at it. Read more
It may surprise you to learn that 99% of my anxiety at events is “what if I don’t recognize someone and they’re sad because I didn’t recognize them?” This has been my top worry since I was little Miss One Pro Story Sale. No, since before that. Since I was Read more
One day I was chatting pleasantly with some work friends, and I mentioned how much I loved being able to bike to work in the mornings. One of my fellow workers whirled on me, angry, “I can’t bike to work! I have too much to do and it’s a lot Read more
Blog topic suggested by Maura Yzmore So, I am not good at this, and have never successfully queried, but I’ll let you know what I’ve learned so far. Don’t Bury the Lede I was quite a ways into a timed pitch session when I said, “now that I’m a Hugo Read more
Part of what drives me, that drives most of us, to science fiction is the desire to explore. To see new places and meet new people. Because some number of people really liked a particular story I wrote, I got to fly halfway around the world to a country I’d Read more
Okay, so, I thought I had a bit of a break from appearances but then I remembered I’m me, and I say yes to everything? Gort, this better sell some books. Black Friday! November 24, I’ll be at Appletree Books at Cedar and Fairmont in Cleveland Heights, 3-5pm. It’s a Read more
All the stories in my formative years were about people saving worlds. Alien worlds, this world, the future via time travel, the past to fix the present. My first forays into science fiction focused on world-ending disasters, too, because that was what you had to write, right? Only I found Read more