I’ve been reading Juliette Wade’s blog for some time now. She’s a linguist and anthropologist who also writes SF. Her insights in to culture are well-written and uniformly insightful. I look forward to her posts. Today’s post is called, .Don’t make them all the same and deals with different approaches to creating multi-cultural fantasy characters. […]
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Charles Tan at Bibliophile Stalker did an interview with me that covers some new ground with questions such as, “What aspects of your storytelling cravings does puppetry satiate? How about fiction? Are there any areas where they overlap?” Check it out; it was fun to do.
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I just sold “Jaiden’s Weaver” to Diamonds in the Sky, An Astronomical Anthology edited by Mike Brotherton. I’m extremely pleased by this because I came up with the idea for the setting while at the Launchpad Writer’s Workshop. Jerry Oltion, one of our fabulous instructors, helped me work out what it would be like to
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Apex has my short story Scenting the Dark up in their new online issue. For those who aren’t familiar with Apex, they do SF Horror. Here’s the teaser on mine. Lifting the stopper from the vial to his nose, Penn inhaled slowly. Against the neutral backdrop of his ship’s cleanroom, he picked out aromas of
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Marshall Payne of The Fix interviewed me before the Campbell. We agreed to do a follow-up question post-Campbell. I have to say this was a great process. We chatted on the phone first and then he came up with a series of questions based on what we talked about. It was fun. I’ve enjoyed his
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I love, love, love Subterranean Press and am so delighted to have finally landed a sale there. This actually happened a couple of weeks ago, right before Launchpad, but I was sitting on the news until I finished revisions. ((There’s a funny story here, which I’ll tell later.)) Which I just did and had accepted
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One of the other participants, Laura J. Mixon-Gould, just shared this great little online star-gazing tutorial. It’s fun and only takes a few minutes. Give it a try.
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Raw notes: You go in and sit down in front of a computer and do stuff on it. Maybe you write something down in a notebook. Has students and postdocs doing most of the practical stuff. Spend time designing a program, send it to someone, they implement it and send the data back to him.
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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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Once again, these are my raw notes. No promises about coherence. When dealing with conceptual change theory, you can’t say, “This is wrong” or “This is the right answer” you have to change their conception. Jim told about how he was asked why the moon looks big when it comes up. He answered wrong, based
These are my raw notes. I don’t promise they make sense. — Mike Brotherton: The goal is not to learn all of astronomy in a week, but to learn enough that we can intelligently research questions for stories. People learn through story, more easily than in the classroom. If he can get us to use
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I got in to the airport in Denver with no problems and no random editor sightings. I was on a plane with fellow attendee Paul Witcover and didn’t see him until we met up with the rest of the group. It’s a two-hour drive from Denver to Laramie and we talked pretty much non-stop on
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. . I’m heading for Laramie, WY today for LaunchPad Astronomy workshop. Mike Brotherton has posted our schedule. Here’s what’s happening on day one. You can pop by his site to see what the rest of the week holds for me. Thursday, July 31 9:30 AM Coffee, Juice, Continental Breakfast 10:00 AM Welcome and introductory
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Jon Armstrong has an interview up with David Anthony Durham ((both gentlemen are finalists for this year’s Campbell for Best New Writer)) at his podcast, If You’re Just Joining Us. It’s really wonderful. David talks about his journey to being a writer, being naked in the desert, and fiction. I’m reading his book, Acacia, right
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. . I have my official schedule for World Con now. Launch Pad: Astronomy for Writers Wednesday, 11:30 a.m. Launch Pad is a week-long crash course in modern astronomy for writers founded by Mike Brotherton and held each summer at the University of Wyoming. NASA foots the bill with the goald of increasing the quality
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