This is an amazing series of photographs by Charles Fréger. For the past two years, he’s been taking photos of pagan rituals, which are still active. So far, he’s visited nineteen countries for the “Wilder Mann” series. The photos are eerie and beautiful. Go look at the entire set. When you arrive on the site, use
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The problem with only needing six hours of sleep is that when I go to bed early, I wake up while it’s still dark. 3:30 is a time that should only come once per day, if you ask me. My body looks at the dark outside, and the time and decides that it’s still tired.
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Woot! Happy dances and much joy abound. The week before WorldCon, I got the news that my delightful editor, Liz Gorinsky, wanted to buy two more novels from me. Yay! This made me very happy. And then, there was this thing that weekend, and someone gave me a rocketship, and then my wonderful agent called
Sale! Three new novels to Tor! Read More »
During recent conversations, I’ve become aware of three things. When I say that I think about writing for audio, people imagine radioplays. The way I think about writing has been influenced by also being an audiobook narrator. Some of the writing for audio stuff would actually be useful for other writers. So… here we have
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What do you do when something goes wrong, really wrong, with your career? What happens if it’s your fault? What about if it’s someone else’s fault? Mary leads by talking about the Glamour in Glass misprint — the first line was omitted in the hardback — and the difference between her private and public reactions
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Many authors struggle to write beyond what they know and write the other. While conventions are tackling this material, there is frequently not enough time to delve into this tricky and nuanced skill. The Writing the Other Workshop and Retreat is designed to have lessons and conversations at a more advanced level. By pairing it
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Remember last year, when I was a Guest of Honor on the inaugural Steampunk Cruise? And you saw the photos and thought it looked awesome? Guess who’s been invited back? So– Will you join me for the Steampunk 2014 Cruise? It’s a seven night cruise and prices start at $639 per person. They go up
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There are wonderful people in the world. Patrick Nielsen Hayden offered to run “The Lady Astronaut of Mars” on Tor.com so that I had a definitive, published-this-year, version of the story. Since one of the things that the Hugo committee mentioned regarding the disqualification of audiobook version of “Lady Astronaut of Mars” was the presence
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I want to be clear that I love Sesame Street, but there are some things that just shouldn’t be commercialized. And even if you are going to go there, then I have to seriously question some products. Witness the Yip Yip Yip leggings. You remember these lovable aliens, right? Uh-huh, uh-huh. Yep, yep, yep. Uh-huh… Okay,
So, this link is getting passed around on the internet and people are asking me if I knew about the disqualification of “Lady Astronaut of Mars.” No. I didn’t. Not until the night of the Hugos, when I saw the same list everyone else did. I checked it because I was curious to see if
On the question of my novelette “Lady Astronaut of Mars” and the Hugo ballot. Read More »
Begin with a yoga warmup to stretch before exercising. Then move on to your workout.
Video: Exercising with cats. Read More »
I’ve been really pleased by the #DiversityinSFF conversation happening on Twitter. Today, the Guardian picked up the story with the headline, “It’s time for science fiction to face up to discrimination.” That’s great. But then they followed up with this subheading, which they repeated in the article, “Why are most SF authors straight, white western
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So there’s this really good conversation going on in Twitter about encouraging Diversity in SFF. The hashtag is #DiversityInSFF and I highly encourage checking it out. Anyway, reading that and thinking about the other conversations, I started wondering who the fans of speculative fiction are? I mean, I know who goes to conventions, but what
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For people who liked “Kiss Me Twice” and ask if I’ll ever write another story with Metta again… Here’s the answer. “Body Language” Saskia leaned into the darkness above the stage, only vaguely aware of the wood rail against her hips as she retied the left headstring on her marionette. On the stage below, the
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It’s 4am and I’ve just come back from winning a Hugo. More accurately, Writing Excuses won the Hugo Award for Best Related Work tonight. Howard, Brandon and I all jumped in our seat with shock when they called our names. Poor Dan was in Germany, so didn’t get to be with us for this win. It
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