by Laura Anne Gilman First: mea culpa. This week was distilled chaos, and between jet lag, deadlines, and Rosh Hashana, I forgot to upload this before going offline Thursday. So we are a day late. Still, 39 weeks, and this … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: September 2011
Today’s “Room for Debate” in The New York Times has five brief essays on how science fiction foreshadows the future called “An Idea So Crazy It Might Come True.” The contributors are professor, author, and editor James Gunn; fiction and … Continue reading
By Nancy Jane Moore I read about science a lot, though not in any systematic way. A popular science book will catch my eye on a remainder table at the bookstore, or I’ll read something online that sounds interesting and … Continue reading
Some folks always know what they want to write–they’re drawn to a genre, or even to one specific book. It just happens. A few of the very lucky ones even sell that book–or sell right off into that genre. For me, it’s always been a struggle to stick to one of anything.
Continue readingAt the best of times, I’m mildly schizophrenic about my story-telling. Actually, that’s an inaccurate use of the word. I mean, inconsistent and of two contradictory minds. On the one hand, I think it’s essential, even life-saving, to tell the … Continue reading
I’ve been in the publishing business for decades but until this year, I never published a mystery and never had a good excuse to attend. I think I need to write another mystery just so I can go back.
Continue readingby Sherwood Smith Elizabeth was called on by her cousin to give her opinion of all that she had seen at Rosings, which, for Charlotte’s sake, she made more favorable than it really was. But her commendation, though costing her … Continue reading
by Chris Dolley Our first year in France was … unusual. It was as though in crossing The Channel we’d ripped a hole in the space-time continuum and allowed a much weirder universe to poke through. There’s probably a critical … Continue reading
by Laura Anne Gilman If you write your story in one go-and-done, then this entry is not for you. Kick back, and come back next week. Still with me? Excellent. So you’ve done the hard lifting: you’ve gotten from Once … Continue reading
By Nancy Jane Moore After spending the afternoon reading so I could avoid writing (nothing like reading for making you feel like you’re being constructive when you’re goofing off), I got on the computer with the goal of getting to … Continue reading