I’ve often found myself frustrated that the stories I pick up are always from the point of view of the starship captain and not the person who swabs the decks. Everything seems to be about millionaires and industry leaders, super-stars. Read more
A friend recently asked me, “I’ve written a short story! Now what? How do I sell it?” There is so much to that question, so many things to learn the hard way. Selling a story is a different process from Read more
My friend Premee posted to twitter about having spent an entire conversation with a fork in her mouth because she didn’t want the person talking to her to know she wasn’t using a spoon to eat her yogurt. It immediately Read more
So I’ve been working on this huge and possibly insane data project, where I am trying to count all the women writing as women (psuedonym ignoring) over time in speculative fiction magazines. I started with Astounding / Analog, because I Read more
You, my loyal fans, in my write-a-thon poll chose for me to write an urban fantasy in first person point of view with bromance/sismance in it somewhere. (I confess some panic at Urban Fantasy winning. Hard SF had an early Read more
I will once again be participating in the Clarion Write-a-Thon to raise scholarships for the Clarion Writer’s Workshop. Usually I set my goal as writing 50 short stories in the six-week write-a-thon window. This year I posted a twitter poll Read more
With white writers writing more diverse characters, could we face a situation where the white writer with a diverse cast is seen as more diverse / given preference over a minority writer who choses to write a white cast? This Read more