My latest Wayward Time Traveler column is up at @sfsignal

This week’s installment is part 2 of my 2-parter on time travel stories. They are what I consider to be some of the most important (and enjoyable) time travel stories that I’ve read. You can read my list over at SF Signal. Add your favorites to the comments over there.

Going iPad, Part 2 of 5: Writing on the iPad with Scrivener and SimpleNote

In part 1 of this series, I talked about my experience so far reading on the iPad. Today I want to discuss my experience writing on the device. Once again, my goal is to see how much of the work I do on a laptop can be transferred to the iPad. There is one exception [...]

Vacation in the Golden Age, Episode 16: October 1940

I write episode 16 on the heels of two science fiction events, one big and one small, but none the less fun. Last weekend, I attended the Nebula Awards Weekend in Washington, D.C. It was my first time attending that particular event and I had a blast. It was also the first time I was [...]

Going iPad, Part 1 of 5: Reading on the iPad

I got my iPad about a week ago and have started to make the transition from laptop to iPad. With a few exceptions, I am seeing how much I can do entirely on the iPad. In thinking through what I do, I’ve come up with five general categories and over the next five days, I’ll [...]

Balticon 2011 Day 2: The Durian Tasting

I attended the first two days of Balticon 45 this weekend, and it was nice to be able to attend another convention so quickly on the heels of the fantastic Nebula Weekend. Most of Friday night I spent in the bar after enduring a horrific 4 hour drive over the space of a mere 50 [...]

Balticon, Day 1: The bar

Because of the traffic from hell, I missed the first couple of panels I wanted to see. By the time I finally got up to the convention hotel, I needed a drink, so I headed to the bar, which was fairly packed, found a table, and ordered a beer. Eventually, folks seemed to find me [...]

I have arrived at Balticon

I left the house at 12:45 thinking I’d get up to Hunt Valley just before 2pm and be able to hang with friends for a few hours before the panels started. It wasn’t until just before I left that I was reminded that it was a holiday weekend. Now, it’s about 60 miles from my [...]

My contributor’s copies have arrived!

Recall that I received two copies of the June 2011 Asimov’s in the mail a while back. I speculated at the time that they were supposed to be my contributor’s copies for my story in the June Analog, but perhaps there was a mixup? Well, I mentioned this to the Stan Schmidt, editor of Analog, [...]

What I will be doing at Balticon

I will be at Balticon on Friday and Saturday. I’m not on programming, but I’m there mostly to hang out with my science fiction peeps.  I’ve read through their pocket program and selected some panels that I thought might be interesting to attend. Keep in mind that I might change my mind, especially if engrossed [...]

A brief recap of a very long day

I didn’t get much sleep last night. I fell asleep around 11pm and woke up at 1am. After that, I couldn’t get back to sleep. After tossing and turning for a few hours, I decided to just give up, get up and write. Turns out I’ve had a pretty productive day: I wrote several blog [...]

My Day-1 Impressions of the iPad 2

I’ve had my new iPad for about 21 hours now which is probably long enough to write about my initial impressions without going into too many specific. I’ve installed about a dozen apps so far, things that I generally use frequently like Evernote, Kindle App, Twitter, WordPress, Reeder, and SiriusXM. I’ve also installed a few [...]

Check out the latest MIND MELD on SF Signal!

In this week’s edition of SF Signal‘s popular MIND MELD series of discussions, the topic is “Fantasy novels besides Game of Thrones that would make an excellent weekly TV series“. There are some great mind’s melding in this one, including Robin Hobb, Martha Wells, David B. Coe, and many others, including yours truly. This is [...]

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