It’s time for the annual year-in-review / award eligibility post. Let’s start with the award-eligible list for the convenience of those preparing their Hugo or Nebula ballot or, I dunno, Best Midwestern Author Who Used to Play Football Award? In Read more…
There is a trope in movies were a gorgeous actress wears glasses and baggy clothes in the first act, then someone gives her fashionable clothes, contact lenses, and does her hair, and she spends the rest of the movie acknowledged Read more…
February 9th, 2005, I sent a draft of a story called “The Falls” to my friend and writing workshop-mate Pat Stansberry. Hey Pat… For what it’s worth I did some editing on the Dead story I wrote. I don’t know if you were still Read more…
When I first heard about fan fiction, I was … oh let’s be honest, I was a kid and I reacted like all the worst, reactionary blowhards you can imagine. “Why would you do that?? Those are SOMEONE ELSE’S CHARACTERS! Read more…
I was in second grade, I’m pretty sure, but maybe first. That age where, every week, we had to fold a piece of paper in half, lengthwise, and number ten lines for our spelling test. The teacher would pace sedately Read more…
Well, kinda. Now that events are Happening In the Real World, as well as online, I am Doing All The Things. Here’s where you can catch me: Thursday June 10th, Wednesday June 16th and June 23rd, I’ll be leading a Read more…
My father got custody of my twin sister and me when we were twelve, in sixth grade at Perry Middle School in Perry, Ohio. He had to snatch us quickly, in the middle of the day, one of us at Read more…