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You Might Be a Book Worm If…

Posted in Arts, Writing, tagged , , , on May 15, 2012 | 12 Comments »

Book worm: a person who cannot imagine an existence without reading. It just occurred to me the other day that most people are not book worms. I mean, I know that most American adults do not read that many books; in 2007 the media had fun complaining about how 27% of Americans hadn’t read a [...]

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The Box in my Pocket: Saying Goodbye is Hard

Posted in Science fiction and fantasy, Writing, tagged , , , , , , , on May 8, 2012 | 6 Comments »

My short story “The Box in my Pocket” has recently come out in the anthology Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, which is available as a paperback and an e-book. Here it is directly at Amazon (paperback and Kindle e-book) and B&N (for the Nook). I wrote this story in January of 2011.  I remember thinking of the [...]

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Novel Rough Draft Complete!

Posted in Science fiction and fantasy, Writing, tagged , , , , on April 19, 2012 | 12 Comments »

I am happy to report that a week ago today, I finished the rough draft of my latest novel, The Academy of Forgetting. It clocks in at a little less than 77,000 words, which is ideal for a YA novel with a speculative element, and gives me a little breathing room in both directions as [...]

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Social Media is NOT about Sales

Posted in Social Media, Writing, tagged , , , , , , on April 3, 2012 | 4 Comments »

Writer Susan Kiernan-Lewis wrote a blog post a couple of months ago entitled “The Great Social Media Flim-Flam.” If you want to see writer frustration with having to deal with social media, go on over and read it, because it’s one of the best examples I’ve seen. If you don’t want to read five hundred [...]

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Sit at the Table Redux

Posted in Arts, Writing, tagged , , , , , , , on March 29, 2012 | 12 Comments »

It’s been a little over a year since I wrote my first Sit at the Table essay, although it feels like exactly a year since it was published the Thursday before FogCon, and guess what today is. Last week I received word that I sold my story “Man on the Moon Day” to Daily Science [...]

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Good Enough For What?

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , on March 27, 2012 | 9 Comments »

Resistance against self publishing has been steadily crumbling. Last week a writer friend of mine who had been vehemently opposed to such ideas no more than a year ago even mentioned that she’d consider self publishing. I never expected to hear those words from her, and it’s a powerful illustration for me of the mainstream [...]

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Strong Female Characters Can Still Screw Up, Get Upset, and Cry

Posted in Science fiction and fantasy, Society, Writing, tagged , , , on March 15, 2012 | 8 Comments »

As many of you know, I’m a big Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan. I’ve watched the series more than once. I have a Buffy T-shirt. I even own a replica scythe. So what I’m about to say may shock you. Buffy the Vampire Slayer is not a feminist show. It is sometimes egregiously sexist, in [...]

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Kindred Spirits Lurk in the Rain Forest

Posted in Writing, Life, tagged , , , , , on March 13, 2012 | 13 Comments »

I returned from Washington late Sunday night, only to find I had brought a bad cold back with me. This is the kind of cold that makes me feel like the distance between my neurons has doubled, so that any thinking I might wish to do happens… very… slowly. So even though I don’t usually talk [...]

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About Writing Mind

Posted in Arts, Writing, tagged , , , , , , , on March 1, 2012 | 3 Comments »

I mentioned in my post The Dangers of Advice that among the common writing advice I don’t follow myself is the adage to write every day. Apparently, Jeff VanderMeer doesn’t write every day either, at least not to a specific word count. So you know, yet more evidence that you should studiously ignore all writing [...]

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My Current Obsession (no, it’s not Downton Abbey)

Posted in Science fiction and fantasy, Writing, tagged , , , , , on February 28, 2012 | 7 Comments »

My head is in the clouds. Actually, my head is in a fictional boarding school in a remote location in the Canadian Rockies. In other words, I am obsessed by the novel I am currently writing. And when I’m not completely lost in my obsession, my mind invariably turns to the novel I want to [...]

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