Selected from questions 51-97. They aren’t in order as they came in, because I am grouping questions with a common or similar subject together. Roccie: My question concerns the backstory. I find one of the hardest things to do is … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: August 2015
Since Vonda McIntyre is the Guest of Honor here, Book View Cafe had to throw its first publisher party. I ran it, Madeleine Robins baked a cake, and Sara Stamey (who has a car and a Costco card) bought provender, … Continue reading
Taco Del and the Fabled Tree of Destiny A Merlin’s Tale by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff I was ten when mi madre y padre were killed. We lived real close to the Border between Potrero and Embarcadero — just north of … Continue reading
By the time this is posted, I’ll be joining other Book View Café authors at Sasquan, the World Science Fiction Con in Spokane, where I hope the heat and wildfire smoke don’t fog the festivities. So before Thor and I … Continue reading
Phyl Ames, aka Phyllis Ann Radford, and I in the lobby of the Doubletree Hotel in Spokane WA for the World Science Fiction Convention. Our party is tonight, and everyone who reads this is invited — room 312 at the … Continue reading
by Madeleine E. Robins Timelines save my life. Over and over and over. Because, like Billy Pilgrim, I frequently become unstuck in time while in mid-story/book. A timeline is sort of like temporal scaffolding. In the same way that, when I’m … Continue reading
by Brenda W. Clough At this moment as I type this Vonda McIntyre is reading aloud! And then directly afterwards we’re having our Book View Cafe panel. The convention is enormous, possibly the largest in recent memory, but the convention … Continue reading
There’s a reasonable amount of overlap between martial artists and science fiction writers. I’m not sure why, except that possibly people who spend a lot of time sitting in front of a computer need a good physical activity to balance … Continue reading
I have gimmicks I use to handle all kinds of “I’ll get to that later” moments in first drafts. One of them I owe to an Isaac Asimov story that was written as a play called “Zeepsday.”
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I Was a Middle Aged Barn Rat, Part 10, “My Goals.” This is a ten part blog series about the year I decided to pursue my lifelong interest in horses, based on an article that appeared in Equus, March 2015. … Continue reading