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Read More ...The Hugos that could have been
SF writer Tobias Buckell has posted an exercise wherein he uses data from the Hugo process to develop a view of what the Hugo ballot would have looked like had the Rabid Puppy slate not been pushed. It’s an interesting list on the whole, and one I recommend pursuing. I was particularly pleased to see […]
Read More ...A room full of silence
My beloved wife is a fan of music. I am too. But I think just as much, she’s a fan of noise. By this I mean she does not really like to be in a room full of silence. When she goes into a room, music comes on. When she is going to go […]
Read More ...The Hugos
If you’re focused at all on the Hugo Awards, by now you know that the Sad and Rabid Puppy slate was soundly defeated by an avalanche of “No Award” votes, and that the fallout is beginning to spin in multiple directions. This is, alas, almost certainly not over. For those interested in the two spins, […]
Read More ...Take 35% off on Collins fiction at Kobo!
Interested in my short work? You can now get 35% off a copy of my short story collection Picasso’s Cat & Other Stories at Kobo this weekend. And, if you want a double-dose of Collins, you can get the same 35% discount on Singer, the first book in Brigid’s Songbird River Chronicles–for which, a little […]
Read More ...“Fun” moments in moving
Moving after being in one place for more than twenty years is a lot of work, but it’s not like there isn’t some fun stuff in there, too. Stuff like how today I got to go all “Hulk Smash” over four ancient Palm devices we could no longer power up. Stuff like … Uh … […]
Read More ...A morning full of crappy writing
Today, for the first time in over three weeks, I sat down to write for real. Three hours. That’s what I scheduled, and that’s what I pretty much did (with only a small interruption in the middle). I sat in my nearly empty basement and pulled up my Work in Process, and I started in […]
Read More ...2113 Anthology Cover
I’m taking a break to catch up on some stuff this afternoon, and I’m quite pleased to show you the cover to 2113, an anthology of stories based on songs by Rush. You may remember that this volume will include a short story of mine titled “A Patch of Blue” (which is based on the […]
Read More ...Wanted, Dead or Alive: Info on the SF Community in Tucson …
A month ago I posted about my planning process. In it, I wrote this: A plan is just a plan. It is, by its very nature, the one way you can pretty much guarantee your project will not actually happen. I mean, seriously here … something is guaranteed to go wrong. Something will happen in […]
Read More ...The Walking Dead
Perhaps the biggest change in my life since I started writing full-time has been the fact that I generally sleep 7-8 hours a night. It turns out that this is a huge deal. I mean, it’s a major, big-assed deal. Yes, back when I worked the corporate desk I read all the scientific studies that […]
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