Rather than focusing on the events of the world, I’ve been consciously trying to keep my eye on my work and my life here for a bit. This is mostly for my general sanity. But today has been a bit difficult on that front, so we get what we get. Bottom line: Roe vs. Wade […]

I like to spend my lunch hours learning new things. I tend to do this by semi-randomly finding videos on topics I wouldn’t normally take in, and just seeing what they have to say. A few days back I stumbled upon an hour and a half long video of a talk made by linguist Lera […]

Last month I went to Las Vegas to take in the 2022 Licensing Expo. It was definitely a good learning experience, and (while burying the lede I suppose) since I’ll likely be living there next year, I certainly plan to attend again. I went with no real expectations other than it was going to be […]

Comic From: http://www.basicinstructions.net/ A couple days ago, an acquaintance asked me what I was reading. They know I’m a Skiffy kinda writer, so I wasn’t afraid to say. “First, a whacked-out short story collection by Robert Jeschonek—which is really good if you like wild, whacked-out stories—and a pre-published novel by Michael Warren Lucas that’s about […]

This latest news that LaMDA (an AI) is sentient is just too juicy for a SF writer to stand aside for. I mean. The idea has a long, long tradition in the world of speculation. I’ve written my own bits about it, and in fact have something of that ilk coming out in an upcoming […]

Available in Print or EBook! Available at $.99 For a Limited Time Only! It’s that time again! I’m really pleased to note that the third and final volume of my Collins Creek collections has now been published. This is a project I’ve been planning for some time, and to see it come to fruition is […]

Available in Print or EBook! Available at $.99 For a Limited Time Only! If you’ve been following this little nook of the web, you know I’ve been working on a special project of the heart that I’m calling Collins Creek, and consists of three volumes of stories that all have ties to the Fiction River […]

So a bit back I dropped a note to say I was embarking into the great unknown of a Double Dare—writing two books in one month. Or at least two full first drafts in a month. (Aside: one of the things I like best about being a writer is that, in general, you don’t have […]

It’s a bit of a sad day around the Typosphere. My favorite sleeping shirt has, alas, seen its last sleep. The shirt in question is a standard white T-shirt with a cartoonish image of cats done in cubist style. I want to say Lisa got it for me at an art fair or something, but […]

In the past I have occasionally said that I think science fiction is the most human of all genres. For me this is because pretty much every SF story had at its core “what it means to be human.” I probably stretch that a bit. I suppose an aficionado of any genre could make the […]