I recently spent over a week at a workshop in Oregon where I heard Kris Rusch talk a little about her September, which she’s blogged about, and which I’ll term as a “month from Hell.” For me, that month has been October. At the beginning of the month, the plan had been to have four […]
Read More ...Please Excuse My Case of the Uglies Here….
Yes, it’s yucky here right now. My host has a server issue, and my WP files (and some others) were apparently hacked with in the process. I shall preserver, though. Eventually this place will look okay, and maybe even be a little useful. 🙂 Share Me
Read More ...Love Powders & Wicked Witches
The Witches’ Brew bundle is now available on BundleRabbit.com Whew, I say, pushing my head above water just in time to see the publication of my short story “Love Powders and Wicked Witches” in the Witches’ Brew bundle. It’s October, right? Totally makes sense. On the other hand, Holy goodness, but where has time gone? […]
Read More ...Sunspring … extreme SF, all the way down
A little bit ago, I wrote an entry that I titled “The Rules They Are A Changin’, in which I discussed some “sky is falling’ kind of thoughts about what happens to the economy when AI do almost all the work. The piece got a comment or two, both on the site and on the […]
Read More ...It’s a wild, wild, wild, wild, fun, fun, fun, fun mess
I’m at that stage in the Stealing the Sun project where everything feels like it’s this big hodge-podge mess of brambles and mud held together by muckety-mucky, and it’s all started to roll down hill in the middle of a rainstorm full of wind. Got it? If you’re doing indie publishing (or any other kind […]
Read More ...Wherein Space Opera science catches up to me …
I’m clearly going to have to write faster. I mean … seriously. It seems that science might be catching up to my fiction. Why do I say that, you ask? Well, I’m doing this science fiction series that’s an intergalactic thing based on three short stories I wrote for Analog some time back. Given that […]
Read More ...Kobo gives you a deal on my stuff
Yes, I’m busily working on finishing up my SF series. Yes, It’ll be out soonish. But today I need to stop to let you know that for the next four days only, Kobo is running a deep 50% discount on my stuff. That’s right, you can get 50% off my work. May your joy know […]
Read More ...On closed loop systems in which the outputs become the inputs
I have been working on Starfall, which is book three of the Stealing the Sun series. The story is set on a distant planet and told through the eyes of aliens–which makes this a particularly fun book to write, though a bit more difficult than most. I’m finding the process interesting for several reasons, among […]
Read More ...The End of Brawn
I promise to write about science fiction again tomorrow, but I came across something that made me … uh … “smile” is not quite right. But it was something that made me nod. Yes, that’s the right word. Nod. A few months ago, I wrote a bit that I titled The Rules, They Are A […]
Read More ...Book 3: Catching a wave
As I noted earlier, I’m working on a five book series that greatly expands on three stories Analog published some time back. It’s quite an interesting task. Very different from writing the God-Touched Mage series in that my goal here is to keep all the little bits of the story that were contained in the […]
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