This came to me as an ARC from the World Fantasy convention late last year. Â I brought it home and stuck it on Toni’s to-read pile since my own pile was too big with books I’d promised various people to read and a few new ones from favorite authors. Toni finished it in days, at …
Sometimes we writers get to do fun things like hang out in big groups in houses together and write and laugh and talk. Â And write. Â And learn. Write some more, Â read either other’s work. Â You get the idea. On one such escape to a writerly weekend in Flagstaff, Arizona, I met Rob Zeigler, and got …
I listened to this in the podcast version over at Clarkesworld. It’s a lovely tale. I’m enchanted with it becasue it directly addresses alien race relations through the eyes of a race that has been persecuted here. I can’t say much more without spoilers, but it’s a brave story, well-told, and also narrated quite nicely …
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The whole title is The Book of Phoenix (Excerpted from The Great Book). I listened to this as a podcast on the way over to the Rainforest Writer’s Retreat. It was quite awesome. I don’t really want to say too much about it since it’s not very long, but I like it a lot. And, …
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Louise Marley is a good friend and we sometimes share bits of writing with each other. So I saw Mozart’s Blood born a few years ago. I hadn’t read it all the way through, or even seen the last half at all. My theme for recovery has been “read the things you want to read” …
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First, sorry for not posting much lately — recovering from a non-threatening surgery that’s kept me from sitting well since my foot needs to be up. Have been writing a lot, but fiction rather than this kind of stuff. That’s probably a good thing. I’ve also had more time for reading and I’m tearing through …
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Now, these are my candy reads. I follow Devon Monk’s series about magic in Portland, and Patricia Brigg’s Mercy Thompson series, and even though they write fast, I run out of novels before their next ones show up. These are not for my brain – I read plenty of that kind of stuff, too. These …
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Yesterday I had one of those long 8 hour drives through the country, me and my golden retriever and and a bunch of podcasts. I’ve taken a real liking to having stories told to me. Here are some of the reasons: As a writer, it’s an easier way for me to disengage the critical brain, …
Thanks to Cat Rambo for asking me excellent questions in an interview over on the Science Fictions Writers of America Site.  I don’t actually see Cat nearly as often as I like, but by coincidence we met for coffee yesterday, and I got to pick her brain to add to a guest post I did …
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I got ready to head out onto a cruise last week, and picked up Mary Robinette Kowal’s “Shades of Milk and Honey” to see if I thought I’d like to bring it along as cruise reading. The next time I looked up I was almost 100 pages into the book. It’s lovely. I read it. …
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