How do you show a character doing something that is inherently non-visual? Many stories hinge on a character making a decision. What does that look like? It can be easy to fall into listing all the options, writing out the Read more…
Big news: I have made the long list for the British Science Fiction Association Awards – for both Novel and Short Story. Because hey, it wouldn’t hurt if people who vote for awards could actually read things, I have made Read more…
“We live in a classless society,” I’d been told as a kid in a white suburban school where most of my classmates were from comfortable middle-class families. I’d been told it so many times I regurgitated it myself, in a Read more…
Every time I finish a writing journal, I start the next one with a list of Works In Progress. These are unfinished things which I genuinely intend to finish (like all writers I have a truly epic pile of never-intend-to-finish Read more…
After all my anxiety about Covid at WorldCon, I came home healthy and tested negative. Probability, as always, is a jerk and delights in rewarding risk and punishing caution. While I was away, my husband, who has been very careful Read more…
I felt my hubris, heading to a huge, international event in the midst of a pandemic that is very much heating up. Heck, I was downright terrified, especially for the safety of some of my favorite fellow attendees whose health Read more…
I’m at WorldCon in Washington DC from now until Sunday. Looking forward to seeing and hanging out with many of my dear distant friends. Here is my schedule for those interested in finding me: Thursday 10am: Changing Genes – can Read more…