Nimuë’s Tale by Madeleine Robins from the BVC anthology, Beyond Grimm edited by Deborah J. Ross and Phyllis Irene Radford One who plays with time barely notices its passing. The green of the forest trembled on the verge of autumn … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: October 2015
From Part 1, Sept. 19, 2015: A visceral sense of place is very important to me when writing my novels, and after setting them in far-flung locales, I’m bringing this new novel-in-progress home to my back yard. Growing up fourth-generation … Continue reading
by Brenda W. Clough A version of this recipe appears in Ad Astra: the 50th Anniversary SFWA Cookbook. All proceeds from it go to SFWA’s Legal Fund, which was established to create loans for eligible member writers who have writing-related … Continue reading
We saw The Martian this week and liked it a lot, though my sweetheart did note that it wasn’t as good as the book. Few movies are, of course, because there’s no way to incorporate everything that’s essential in a … Continue reading
No book comes out of nowhere. In fact, no book comes out of only one direction. There’s the trigger, the push that takes a story from faint germ to realized idea, of course. And the faint idea grows out of … Continue reading
I got invited to do a cool thing! (Okay, part of my delight is that I don’t think of myself as being part of the cool crowd, and therefore, being invited to do a cool thing plucks at my deeply-buried … Continue reading
By Ursula K. Le Guin Last week in the “Negotiating the Ocean of Story” post, I found that Tamara’s question gave me an opportunity to ask you and all the others sailing with us a question. I posted it at … Continue reading
Concerning a Wilderness by Ursula K. Le Guin I spoke briefly last week at a celebration of the 15th anniversary of the Steens Mountain Wilderness, October 2, 2015, in Portland, held by the Oregon Natural Desert Association. Getting an area … Continue reading
This has been a week from hell, which means it’s time for a Horseblog Classic. We are celebrating the anniversary of this blog’s adventure with another vet adventure, a couple of severe colics. One horse got over it quickly and … Continue reading
Conga-rats to our own Laura Anne Gilman for a fantastic review of her new novel Silver on the Road, the first book of a new series. The review, which is featured on the National Public Radio site, reads in part: …All … Continue reading