Goals for 2012: Conventioneering

I have a lot of fun going to science fiction conventions. People who have been my heroes and who I’ve enjoyed reading for a very long time have become my friends. There is a camaraderie that is difficult to explain to others outside the genre. So I look forward to going to these. My goals [...]

Goals for 2012: Novel reading

Because of my focus on short fiction, novel reading has taken a backseat the last few years, and I imagine that will continue for the next few years. Novels are more of a time investment and with everything else going on, something has to take a backseat. That said, here are a few goals for [...]

Goals for 2012: Short fiction reading

I’ve written about how I love short science fiction. Back in September I gave myself a goal of reading a piece of short fiction a day. In other words, 365 stories a year (or in 2012, 366, since it is a leap year). I’ve done pretty well since September and so my short fiction reading [...]

Goals for 2012: Blogging

I had a surprisingly good year on the blogging front. Not only did I exceed my goal of tripling the visits to my blog, but my blogging lead to other interesting gigs, including a column at SF Signal, and two story sales to 40K Books. I’m not sure it would be realistic to think that [...]

Goals for 2012: Fiction writing

I’ve learned a few things about setting goals for writing over the last few years. One is that they need to be realistic. The other is that they need to be entirely within your control. The last few years I realize that I’ve set not only unrealistic goals for my writing, but also goals that [...]

Last full day in Florida

Ten days goes by fast! Today is our last full day in sunny southwestern Florida. We head home tomorrow around noon. I headed to the store early this morning and got things to make breakfast for everyone. Scrambled eggs, potatoes, bacon, toast. Yummy! Later this afternoon we’ll be going out for lunch. I expect to [...]

Addendum to my short fiction post for 2011

In Wednesday’s post, I listed some of my favorite short fiction that I read this year, some of it published in 2011, and some published earlier. I thought it important to mention that in all of the short fiction I read in 2011 (excluding the stories from Astounding), while there were some definite standout stories, [...]

Year in review – 2011: Conventioneering

One of my goals in 2011 was to “attend at least one [science fiction] convention as a participant.” I started attending science fiction conventions in 2007 after the sale of my first story to Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show. The first convention I attended was RavenCon in April 2007 and it set the bar [...]

On Dozois’ Year’s Best Science Fiction Anthologies

It has become a kind of year end ritual, at least for the last 3 years or so, for me to pick up a big anthology or two and spend time reading stories. It started with David G. Hartwell’s The Hard SF Renaissance, which I read 3 years ago at this time and absolutely loved. [...]

Year in review – 2011: Novel reading

Let me just confess up front: reading more short fiction in 2011 cut into the novel reading time. If you look at the list of books I’ve read since 1996, you’ll note that in this year, much of my reading consisted of issues of Astounding. In the past, I never added magazine reading to the [...]

4 items of writerly/readerly interest

Some items of interest to SF/F writers and readers to round out your year: 1. Juliette Wade writes about writing for Analog Go check out Juliette’s post. She has good advice for anyone trying to crack the Analog market. Everything she says there is spot-on. 2. Michael Burstein talks about re-reading Heinlein’s Stranger in a [...]

When you’re sliding into third…

Let me set the scene for you. We’ve had gorgeous weather all week down here in southwestern Florida. I mean absolutely gorgeous. Even at this minute, as I write, I’m sitting out the lanai, the thermometer reads 79 degrees, there is a pleasant breeze, ahhh. Yesterday, however, there was a brief break in the sunshine. [...]

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