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 readingI’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 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
Writing myths. We’ve all heard them. Lately I’ve heard a bunch more and they always leave me laughing and cringing. A friend used to say, “It’s not what you don’t know that’ll get you, it’s what you know that ain’t true.” There’s a lot that folks know which just ain’t true.
Continue readingAlmost the first thing my parents did, when they bought the Barn, was put in a fireplace. Or rather, they put in a chimney with four fireplaces in it. Or rather, a stonemason put in the chimney after my father … Continue reading