Despite my plans to WAIT, damn it, on Thursday afternoon I found myself drawn to several shelters, looking to see if any paws reached out and grabbed me. Gentles, meet Cas*. He’s four months old, full of mischief, affection, and a remarkably deep and piercing voice, and may well grow up to be a Big […]
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Summer is Road Trip season, so the folks at SF Signal asked us about our favorite SF/Fnal road trip… (as usual, I seem to wander down a slightly different path than the others…)
Time to take a little road trip…. Read More »
So, The Million Writers Award nominations have opened for the stories (of 1,000+ words) which appeared online in 2012. Â The editors are limited to three nominations, but YOU Â can make your reader-nominations here. For your consideration: The Cost A young bodyguard and her charge differ on the payment required to save a kingdom.
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We’re working on getting the first two Sylvan Investigation stories ready for their general release (October, for those of you waiting), and part of that is proofing the digital formats (ALL the digital formats. Â Dear Universe, all we want for our birthdays is One Universal e-Format, please?). Â Which means I’m skimming for obvious typos and
The semi-illicit thrill of discovery…. Read More »
William Bartram, 1739-1823 Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians. Embellished with
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or one picture. Last week was rough: I had to make the decision to put my beloved ElderCat down, while other things were going to hell in a velvet-lined handbasket. So I ran away to the Massachusetts  shoreline for a while…. Some people may long for white, sandy beaches, or a turquoise
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As a rule, I don’t fangirl. Â I was trained to be a professional, starting at age 19, and it stuck. Â I admire and respect the people I work with, but even the most amazing talents don’t reduce me to gibbering incoherence. Except once. I’d just read a book, a lovely, marvelous book, and then turned
For those of you who’ve read the Nebula-nominated Vineart War trilogy, or have thought about reading the Vineart War trilogy, or have any curiosity at all about an epic fantasy adventure based on wine magic… You can now read “Dirt on their Hands,” Jerzy’s origin story – originally available only to the kickstarter patrons of
Pre-order now and have it show up like magic! (really like magic, if you order a digital edition!) He has been taken. And you are his only chance.â€Â That wasn’t something Jan expected to hear-especially from strangers who’d just rescued her from some mysterious and ferocious creatures. And she really hadn’t expected her rescuers to be
And so it begins…. 29 days until HEART OF BRIAR ships! Read More »
This past week, news broke in the SF community that there had been yet another complaint about sexual harassment lodged against a well-known editor. This editor had been censured previously, back in 2010, but it turned out that none of the complaints had been “officially” registered. That has now changed. And the fact that previous complaints
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