Warning: this is an ANGRY POST. “You’re so lucky you had an awful, abuse-filled, poverty-stricken childhood! It’s not fair! I don’t have all that RICH MATERIAL.” said Aspiring Author To Be Unnamed. I didn’t murder him. What a saint I Read more
Tomorrow morning I leave for WisCon! Tonight I have dinner with my in-laws. Have to pack. Want to finish this hat I was knitting and maybe put a pom-pom on another hat and then pack it. And pack my knitting. Read more
I will be signing copies of Analog and of the “Best of Apex Magazine” anthology at the Velvet Tango Room Thursday, May 19th at 7pm. I should probably tell Velvet Tango Room that, huh? Well, mostly this is an informal Read more
My first job after college was working the night shift at a store downtown. I frequently had to close the store alone and catch the last Red Line east to get off at the lonely, rickety East 120th rapid stop. Read more
My dear friend Mary Turzillo prompted me in the last write-a-thon for “A cat falls in love with a chat bot.” This story, Kitten Lorelei ❤ CherryBerry24, was the result. Not since Zombie Hitler have I written something so marvelously silly. Read more
My story “Hold the Moment” about a woman who invents a time-freezing machine and tries to be a successful single mother at the same time, is in the June Analog. (Plug: the story takes place at my Alma Mater, Case Read more
At Clarion, Cory Doctorow said, “Resist the temptation to think like a dandelion.” (At least I hope I got him quoted right in my wee notebook.) The line I have written under that is: “The cost of reproduction is zero! Read more