Tor.com has a podcast series hosted by Mur Lafferty and this week it’s my story First Flight. Eleanor Louise Jackson stood inside the plain steel box of the time machine. It was about the size of an outhouse, but without a bench or windows. She clutched her cane with one hand and her handbag with […]
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Hey! Go congratulate my friend Saladin Ahmed who has just signed with Jennifer Jackson of the Donald Maass Literary Agency. Signing with an agent is always a big deal, but since Jenn is my agent I can report that Saladin has signed with a wonderful agent. I’m very happy for both of them.
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I’ve just come in from a lovely evening with my friend -e- who I don’t spend nearly enough time with. We talked about everything under the sun and a few things beyond in the very pleasant atmosphere of The Secret Society. During the course of the evening, I’d taken one of the ARCs of Shades
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Lo! It is a real book! I got four ARCs of Shades of Milk and Honey in the mail today. FOUR. It is the first time I’ve held it in book form and it makes me all giggly like a starlet on Iron Chef, eating squid. Um… that’s a good thing, honest. Clearly, this isn’t
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I participate in this week’s Mind Meld at SF Signal along with Steven Brust, Brandon Sanderson and more. My recent and long overdue discovery of Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and Gray Mouser stories made me wonder about other good sword and sorcery stories, so this week's panelists were asked: Q: What are some of the best
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Hey! I missed that Lois Tilton reviewed Apex’s all MRK issue. She gave “The Bride Replete” a recommended which is lovely since she is so hard to please. Kowal has created not only one fascinatingly alien society, but two, based on the same physiology. Pimi and her family don't quite seem human, but they are
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I’ve been approached twice in the past couple of months about submitting to a non-paying markets which wanted to raise their profile, in return they offered exposure. Here is my reply to one of them. Hi [Nameless editor], I have a lot of sympathy for starting a new magazine. When we started Shimmer, our token
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I got to see an ARC of Dark Faith, edited by Maurice Broaddus and Jerry Gordon, while I was at Norwescon, which was pretty cool. It looks like it will be a good read and also provide some food for thought. I’ve got a story in there, which admittedly makes me somewhat biased, but take
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Sam Tomaino gives the March issue of Apex a very nice review. He likes the novelette and the three short stories that I have in that issue. Check out the nice things he says at SFRevu Review.
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Today was fun. I started the morning on the panel, Building a Balanced Mythos at 9:00 a.m. Let me tell you, 9 am is the wrong time of day to talk about anything touching on religion. Thank God (ironically) I had very smart co-panelists and we had a fairly forgiving audience. I think my favorite
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Hello allergy season. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen you and I have to say I’m not sure I’ve missed you. In New York, despite all the things that bloomed in the spring, despite the exhaust and grime, you didn’t come around. In Iceland, there weren’t enough flowering things for me to see
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We just got home from a production of King Lear, in which Sam A. Mowry portrayed a very fine Lear. This has always been one of my favorite of Shakespeare’s plays and I actually memorized chunks of it, back in the day. The way Sam was playing his Lear, made me aware of the number
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Joe Sherry says very nice things about Scenting the Dark and Other Stories over on Adventures in Reading. Here’s an excerpt. There are only eight stories in this 80 page collection from Mary Robinette Kowal, but there is not a wasted word here. The stories of Scenting the Dark and Other Stories should delight readers
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In 2008 I attended Launch Pad and it was one of the most amazing experiences I’ve had. What is it? Launch Pad is a free, NASA-funded workshop for established writers held in beautiful high-altitude Laramie, Wyoming. Launch Pad aims to provide a “crash course” for the attendees in modern astronomy science through guest lectures, and
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A reminder to myself. Be specific. When I’m cleaning up my stories, I go through and search for the word “looked” because I frequently use it as shorthand for generic body language. For example, “The AI looked genuinely unhappy” Okay… what specific piece of body language does my POV character recognize as looking genuinely unhappy?
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