I’ve had a few people ask, knowing that I am not really a fan of fantasy, but also knowing that I think HBO does good series. My DVR is programmed to record the Game of Thrones (which I keep wanting to read as Crown of Thorns for some reason), but I cannot yet say whether…
Just a reminder to those who might not have seen my earlier post, but Episode 13 won’t be coming out today. Instead, it will be delayed one week, appearing late in the evening on Sunday, April 24. Normal schedule will resume thereafter. In the meantime, you can always read through the more than 40,000 words…
For some reason, I am fascinated by the behind-the-scenes process that writers go through when creating their stories. This is odd, I think. For instance, I don’t generally get the idea that professional actors sit down to watch a movie and wonder what the actors on screen where doing the day that the current scene…
Rather than stress about it all weekend long, I’m just going to announce that Episode 13 of my Vacation in the Golden Age will appear a week from Sunday (April 24). That’s right, there will be no Episode this Sunday. The problem is that I’ve been so busy with work, and that my evenings have…
I’m in crunch time for the day job, as I might have mentioned. I’ve been working toward a fairly major rollout of a new server environment and that was targeted to happen April 30/May 1. Then I found out that I needed to go back to L. A. to attend some training right about the…
For those of you who couldn’t find the June Analog in on the news stand, or were waiting for the Kindle version, the wait is over. The June 2011 Analog with my story, “Take One for the Road” is now available on Kindle. If you want just the June issue, be sure to click the…
For the second time since joining the Arlington Writers Group back at the end of August 2010, a story of mine was critiqued during the group last night. The story I submitted for critique was a science fiction mystery that I like quite a bit, but that has been rejected just about everywhere I sent…
I had thought that my trip to L.A. at the beginning of March was the last trip I’d take to L.A. for about a year. But it turns out I’ll be back there again–and in less than two weeks. I have to be in Santa Monica for 2 days of work meetings, Thursday and Friday…
Inspired by my friend Juliette Wade’s recent post on her new writing schedule, I’ve decided to revisit my writing schedule. For a while, I would do my writing between 5-7am and generally that seemed to work out well. I don’t really mind getting up early, I’ve always been a morning person. But raising a child…
It has been strangely surreal seeing my story, “Take One for the Road” appear in Analog and it has been gratifying to hear from a number of people who liked the story. Even more fascinating are the things that people find in the story that I never knew were there myself. This really has been…
I can’t seem to find a good “Events” plug-in (at least one that I like) for WordPress, so in the meantime, here are some upcoming appearances I’ll be making over the next several months. Nebula Award Weekend (May 19-22) Even if I didn’t live just outside of D.C. I would go anyway. I’ve never been…