A few posts ago, I promised to discuss the outcome of reading three books and studying setting. As a reminder, this is associated with a group of writers I gather with to discuss bestsellers, so we pick bestselling work for a variety of genres and look at different characteristics, often following Zuckerman’s book, but sometimes …
I finished two books today – a hardcover physical book (see separate post to come) and an audiobook while I was walking the dogs. The Audiobook was a YA, InterWorld by Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves. It’s a story set in multiple universes – which is one of my favorite sci fi tropes to write …
I’m a lifelong student type. I only have a BA as far as formal degrees, but I dip into classess on management and leadership from time for my day job. And for my writing, I try to do at least two to three workshops a year just to keep new ideas and information flowing. Easily …
Love to have anyone local come on down! I’ll be reading with Kay Kenyon. Kay’s latest book is BRIGHT OF THE SKY. See some of you there.
At the far end of the long lake High white-kissed mountains rise above a Gentle joining where two slopes meet to Fall into the darkening water, blue-black under Apricot clouds, the gold falling on rain falling on Seattle where I have to go tomorrow And this is a perfect moment
I saw Stephen Hawking for the second time last night. Seeing that man work gives me the same fundamental reaction: best stop whining. Dr. Hawking’s disease has progressed so far that he can only select words to use with a mechanism that recognizes when he blinks. A blink moves the cursor. The cursor has what …
Norwescon, a local science fiction convention, is next weekend (April 6-7-8). The University Bookstore is doing a multiple-author signing. So far its: Wednesday, April 4 at 7pm Norwescon signing with Brenda Cooper, Howard Hendrix, Susan Matthews, Joshua Palmatier, and Patrick Rothfuss. We’re excited to host a book signing for a number of the authors participating …
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There is a very interesting article in this week’s Nature magazine about a greek calculating machine, the Antikythera mechanism, which modeled the movements of the heavens. Although you can’t get to the article unless you’re a subscriber, some information is available on the wikipedia. Pretty cool. I’ve been studying Mayan astronomy for the novel I’m …
