My goal for the 2017 Clarion Write-a-Thon is to write 50 stories in six weeks. I’ll keep track here and on twitter. My previous post has a list of rewards I’m offering if you donate to my cause! Progress: Day Read more
The write-a-thon is a fundraiser for the fantastic Clarion writing workshop, a chance for aspiring authors to work for six intense weeks with top professionals in the business. I attended Clarion and want to help everyone have a chance to Read more
My father is a fine artist, an oil painter and sculptor. He dabbled in almost every medium. “Never stop learning,” he’d say. “The day you stop learning is the day you stop living.” I never knew a life without artistic Read more
… and why that makes me happy. A while back, I wrote a post about fame. How it’s not a useful goal, because to be famous requires first that you are, well, famous. It’s a game of exponentials, where the Read more
The first critiques we receive always stay with us the longest and hold disproportionate position in our imaginations. So it is for me and scientific plausibility. As a child, writing silly, childish stories, I was drawn to science fiction first. Read more
Hello, darlings! I’ve just returned from the 2017 Nebula Conference. It was in Pittsburgh this year, which is an easy drive for me, and my dearest Clarion baby brother Patrick lives in the ‘burgh and our Clarion-sister Alyssa was nominated Read more
I hate shaving my armpits. They’re concave, for one thing. The skin is sensitive and the razor burn is real. So there I was, in the shower, with razor-burned pits, contemplating shaving them again. “Does anyone even care?” I thought. Read more