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 love them, and they’ve shown their excellent taste in buying Read more
I recently re-read an old blog post I did on my rejection statistics for sold stories. I had sold 9 stories at that time (March of 2016) and averaged 10.1 rejections on sold stories, with 22 highest rejections and 4 lowest. How has that changed now that I’ve sold 40 Read more
I was commenting to a fellow-writer that, in the slush piles I read, lately female main characters outnumber male main characters so much that the males stand out more and might have an unfair advantage because I find them refreshing and different. She lamented that we’ve “gone too far the Read more
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 2021, I had published: One Novel – My First! Galactic Read more
Other writers frequently ask me how I get so much done, what my schedule or writing practice is like. I decided to actually track my activity for a week and see what it looked like so I was answering honestly. It was a little bit of a weird week, I Read more