(or, You’re Good Enough Just as You Are, Assuming…) Although I’m going to start with Sue Bird’s most excellent podcast Bird’s Eye View, I promise this will have something to do with writing (and arguably all public creativity). To set the scene, though, the week I’m writing this Bird interviews Veronica Burton. Burton is the […]

(Or, Decision Paralysis is Real) A few days back, I did an open blog post about how Kickstarters fit into my overall view of how I want to be releasing books. I’m working toward that goal, and hope to be there “soon,” whatever “soon” means. In that blog post, I noted an interesting project that […]

(or, maybe we should all just go back to pencils) I’m settling back into things after my epic cross-country journey with my brother, and that means trying to catch up on all the news. Just before I left Las Vegas, word of the Anthropic settlement over their acquisition of pirated books dropped, a deal that […]

Thoughts about travel, writing, and finding your purpose. As my last post promised, the past two weeks have been quite an adventure. My brother and collaborator, Jeff, and I embarked on a two-week tour of the country that included stops at something close to a million different places where our parents made their lives. Both […]

During my big cross-country tour, I had the great opportunity to chew the fat with several of my friends. As is only obvious, we talked about a gazillion things, but in the midst of all that was a friend who asked me how to get one of my special edition books. He had seen the […]

(Or, adjusting schedules) That’s it. I’m changing the schedule for my next Kickstarter project. As a person with a high Achievement component, that decision annoys me, but it is what it is. To give in to that frustration and just decide to move forward can at times be a good thing, but this, I think, […]

I’m getting excited again. That’s because the second and final (for now!) collection of my stories published in Analog SF and Fact is nearing readiness to jump into the world. 1101 Digital Stories in an Analog World (sibling to last year’s 1100 Digital Stories in an Analog World, naturally!) will be kickstarting sometime late next […]

All right. This is going to sound weird at first, and then it will get obvious why it’s weird. And then you’ll go off and have fun. That’s what I think, anyway. We’ll find out. I finished reading a short story last night, and was oddly disturbed. Being the kind of guy I am, earlier […]

(…or Going Back to the Basics) Lisa, Brigid, and I hold season tickets to the WNBA’s Las Vegas Aces games. If you follow “The W,” you know that it’s been an interesting season for the team. They started with high expectations, and promptly set about NOT fulfilling them. These things happen sometimes, and when they […]

(or, What Would David Bowie Do?) (or, or, I’m Ch-Ch-Changing My Prices, Among Other Things!) I recall a moment a few years back, sitting in a hotel suite and jabbering with a bunch of writers. Somewhere along the way, I said that I thought living the life of a creative meant moving along from place […]