Last year, I participated in the audio anthology Metatropolis: Cascadia from Audible.com. It was a shared world anthology, built on a story by Jay Lake about what might happen to the Pacific Northwest in the future. Because the stories in the anthology were written specifically for audio, it shaped many of the choices I made […]
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Doug Lain is teaching a six week writers workshop through the Woodstock Community Center and Portland Parks and Recreation starting on July 1st. The course will be run on the Milford Model, but will also feature presentations on aspects of writing from various local writers, including me. The full lineup of guest speakers is: Jay Lake,
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We put these up on a private page for Jay Lake as a get well present, but he’s asked me to share the readings. What readings, you ask? Why full-cast recordings of two of Jay Lake’s Nebula eligible stories, read by Jeff Soesbe, M. K. Hobbson, Dave Goldman, David D. Levine, Camille Alexa, and me
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I had the strangest experience while reading Jay Lake’s Green. I kept feeling like I’d read it before while absolutely knowing I hadn’t. Don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing derivative about the story and the plot turned in ways that surprised me. What it felt like was that this was a book that I’d read
My dear friend and literary grandfather, Jay Lake, is celebrating the release of his new novel Green. There are contests and links to free fiction over on his site. I’ve been looking forward to this coming out since he first started talking about it. And hey, there’s a bookstore near me. Handy, that.
Jay Lake sent me this link to the Guardian today, so you know, I clicked through out of curiosity. The headline was “The next generation of SF Writers” and then there’s a photo of a spiral arm galaxy, the caption of which is, “In a galaxy far, far away … Hill, Kowal or Scholes?” Um.Â
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I should catch you up on what’s happening with the colon puppet. After I gave up on finding the part that the bandsaw flung across the room, I got a new tea-strainer spoon to dismantle. While I’d normally mill my own parts, this was already the perfect shape, so hey, why make work for myself?
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Alan Roberts came to the “Strolling with the Stars” event that Stu Segal had arranged and offered me this photo. It is my very favorite one. Let me tell you what is happening here. I’m standing between Jay Lake and John Scalzi, two men who are dear friends as well as being former Campbell winners.Â
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Mike Brotherton our glorious host at Launch Pad is collecting links from the various participants and posting them on his website. So if you want to get a wider sense of the experience than just my raw notes, then click on over there and explore the other participants’ blogs. For some reason, I’m having a
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I started working on the colon for Jay today by cutting out a simple rectangle of 1/4″ foam. Ironically, we call this type of foam “crap” foam which I was not thinking about until I started writing the blog post. It simply had the right pore density for what I wanted. I headed for the
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By this point, I think everyone probably heard about Jay Lake’s colon cancer news. The man is a cancer survivor the likes of which the world has never seen. When I heard the diagnosis, I emailed him asking if there was anything I could do for him from New York. Oh yes. Yes, there was.
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