I was sitting around the campfire with some fighting buddies and they were talking about doing some training the next day. I hesitantly asked, “Um, I mean… could I… maybe… if it’s okay, can I come?” Fighting buddy put down his drink, leaned forward, and said, “You should be OBLIGATED Read more
At WorldCon, I got to meet up with one of my Clarion Classmates, Kodiak Julian, who asked me, “What’s it like, attending a convention like this, now that you’re this successful, published author, I mean with multiple books and everything?” I wanted to say it wasn’t different at all from Read more
I was fixing this professor’s computer, and we got along great. I was one of only two Unix support personnel at the university and he was a Unix user. He was also from Turkey and made me Turkish Coffee every time I came to his office, so I put that Read more
My friend Olav Rokne of the Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog paid me an amazing compliment recently. I’m paraphrasing here from memory, but it was something like, “You’re one of the good ones on social media. We noticed how engaging you were long before you were getting published regularly in Read more