Realize that you’ve managed to schedule your first actual non-work or family-related vacation in nearly 6 years that week (meaning: limited internet access on the day of release)  Get a text from your cat-sitter that starts “don’t freak out, but we’re at the vet….”I now remember why it’s been 6 years since my last vacation. […]
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The Al Chet is a confession of sins for which we all must take communal responsibility. Traditionally spoken during Yom Kippur, part of the High Holy days (which begins Sunday at sundown with Rosh Hashanah), it’s a powerful bit of coming-to-terms with your own shit, and the shit you have allowed to occur around you.
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As some of you know, I’d been thinking about doing a collection of Devil’s West stories for a while – there was a novella percolating in my head, and short stories waiting on my hard drive, and hey, easier for readers to find rather than hunting through magazines and anthologies! But I hadn’t done more
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And lo, another WorldCon is in the books. This was an odd one, as I didn’t see many of the folk I normally would have expected to, but did get to hang with some old friends, make some new friends, make a few business contacts, and actually get outside of the convention center to see
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I know I’m far from the first to use that joke WRT this year’s WorldCon, but it’s the first time I’ve used it, okay? Heading south to California on Thursday, with my WorldCon76 schedule a bit in the air (my roommate is dealing with family health issues, so I may be staying somewhere other-than-planned for
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Cutting to the chase: THE COLD EYE is a Washington State Book Award nominee. Longer version, with reaction gifs: A few weeks ago, I got an email that started, “Dear Laura Anne, We are so happy to let you know that THE COLD EYE Â has been named a finalist in the Fiction category for the
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I have received my DragonCon 2018 schedule, and while it is still subject to change, odds are it will remain mostly the same. Or at least, good enough for finding-and-stalking purposes. I have not listed my fellow panelists, as they’re probably what’s most prone to change… ——————- Working in the Buffyverse: Actor, Artist, and
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I’d ask where the summer’s gone, but the answer is, it’s going in a haze of annoying heat, pushy deadlines, and random travel. And political WTFkery. And work. And Deadline Elbow, aka tendonitis. I suppose it could be worse, and I did get the new book handed in, only a little (a lot) late. But
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2018 Endeavour Award Finalists and Judges July 12, 2018 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Portland – Five novels written by writers from the Pacific Northwest are finalists for the 20th annual Endeavour Award. The Award comes with an honorarium of $1,000.00 and will be announced November 9, 2018, at OryCon, Oregon’s primary science fiction convention. The finalists
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from the NPRbooks review of RED WATERS RISING: “Gilman is magic in that junction point between the real and the imaginary, and she’s remarkable in allowing her world to grow solely out of the observations of her main character. Isobel is not just the reader surrogate, but a rounded, living, breathing, aching, regretting, exhausted, terrified,
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