Voices of Ash by Jill Zeller 1948 Los Angeles. An industry is thriving, but this is not Hollywood. Clay and mineral deposits feed the famous California potteries: Metlox, Bauer, Franciscan, and 19-year-old Hank Cleveland leaves his Hollywood family for his … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: August 2015
“The Women in Science Fiction Bundle came about when our curator (award-winning and bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch) heard from some young writers that “women didn’t write science fiction, present company excepted.” That’s silly, of course, so she teamed up … Continue reading
NAVIGATING THE OCEAN OF STORY SESSION 1. Selected from questions 1-50 (in order as they came in). Laura: …. ‘Genre’ provides useful hand-holds for readers, but I work across academic and fiction genres and one complaint (aside from the ‘you … Continue reading
Ink Dance Essays on the Writing Life by Deborah J. Ross Sexuality in Fiction A few years ago, I had the privilege of editing a new fantasy anthology series, Lace and Blade, from Norilana Books. The concept was a certain … Continue reading
The Rambling Writer Takes a Trip Over the Border “And now for something completely different,” Thor announced. It was a hot, sunny day, but instead of our usual hiking getaway to a secluded mountain lake for a bracing dip, we … Continue reading
Phyllis Irene Radford I have mastered the fine art of being vague and still getting a point across. But my prose is still vague and not always satisfying. Years ago I attended a writing workshop with Steve Perry, a fine … Continue reading
Not really Schrödinger’s cat, but she is in a box. I’ve just come back from an incredible weekend at the Schrödinger Sessions: Science for Science Fiction, at the Joint Quantum Institute at the University of Maryland, near Washington, D.C. The … Continue reading
On the panel on trends in feminist science fiction at ArmadilloCon (panelists pictured above in a photo by Elze Hamilton), Stina Leicht observed that she consciously decided to use her given name as a byline when she started writing. But … Continue reading
This is the summer of new stuff. In addition to new skates (see my last gear geekout post) I bought a new bike. Behold a bike that actually fits my short-waisted, short-armed, short-legged body! ook ook! This is a Trek … Continue reading
I Was a Middle Aged Barn Rat, Part 8, “Injury.” 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. The … Continue reading