I just went to Borders, and bought three books. Two hardbacks, one trade paper. Charles de Lint: The Mystery of Grace. I know I will like this one. $24.95 Philip Hensher: The Northern Clemency. For a book group. $26.95 Antoinette May: The Sacred Well. I’m a sucker for all things Mayan. $14.99 That was $72.91 …
How do you do first drafts? Shaun Farrel over at Adventures in Sci Fi Publishing has posted the second installment in my short guest blog series. In this one, I talk about my process for spitting out first drafts and ask for comments on how other writers work at this stage. Also, if you drop …
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Now that I’m back from the Rainforest Writers retreat, I have two more “shows” in the next two days: Tomorrow I’ll be doing a video with Glen Hiemstra and a few other folks, which will how up on my website soon. Think of it as futurist speaking marketing, I guess. People keep saying they don’t …
 Saturday, January 3rd 12:00 pm Jake and the Secret Code 1:00 Beedle Bard Story time 2:00 Author Signings Brenda Cooper, Amber Kizer, Louise Marley  Sunday, January 4th 2:00pm Happy Birthday Louis Braille ~ Braille ~ Life, Literacy & Learning 3:00 pm Author Signings Kat Richardson ~ Larry Karp   Hosted by: Barnes and Noble …
Appearance at Seattle Barnes and Noble in Honor of Louis Braille Tomorrow Read More »
I’m not very happy to be addressing Terrorism on Thanksgiving. But I spent part of yesterday near the Internet and TV, watching the horrible events in Mumbai.  I’d like to reflect a little on the way the Clinton administration handled terrorism vs. the way we’ve handled it under Bush. What I’ve got to say is …
I’m the star of an interview for ItBusinessEdge.  While I’ve been interviewed for a lot of technology articles, and periodically for our local paper, and even been in an interactive futurist blog session for the Washington Post, I’ve never seen a taped interview dumped so literally onto a page. It reads like I talk in a casual conversation at …
Toni and I went out to the Seattle Symphony last night. They played “sci-fi favorites” with a laser show — I highly recommend it! Its pretty easy to forget that a lot of our science fiction moveis really have fabulous scores.
The space enthusiast in me is really pleased with Google this week, as they’ve announced a prize for getting commercial craft developed to land on the moon. In this case, read that as real people instead of big government. They also picked a nice spot — the moon is close enough. They’re suggesting unmanned craft, …
There is a new book review and interview about Building Harlequin’s Moon posted over at the Educated Earth site. I really like that book, and so it’s nice to see it get noticed. I’m three novels past that now (1 published), so it’s always a pleasant surprise to see it pop up in a new …
I can’t decide if it’s a writer’s paradise or not. I think I’d get bored if I lived there; we were getting bored after a week and a half. Although I must say that to a girl that grew up in California, a warm ocean was pretty close to the best thing in the world. …
