A beginner’s guide to writing the novel they’ve held close to their hearts but never written.
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A perpetual crisis which beset my globetrotting family every so often, during my school-going years, was that we would inevitably find ourselves stuck at some sort of crossroads which necessitated shifting living arrangements to some other and different country and … Continue reading
A thoughtful, truthful autobiography, translated from the Feline by Ursula K. Le Guin.
Continue readingReading Blind A Guest Post Brian D. Gage Vonda asked me to contribute. My first introduction to e-books and e-readers came this autumn, 2016. I’m totally blind, using a 4 gig PC, Windows 10 and JAWS 17, a screen reader … Continue reading
When I was sixteen, I developed a passion for a yellow Lincoln Continental convertible with a black leather interior. Not a Corvette, which was the hot car of my youth (why, yes, I did watch Route 66), or one of … Continue reading
An essay collection of the many UNusual, inspirational, bizarre, even dreadful tales of how writers actually got published–and how even that is not the end of the story.
Continue readingKickstarter campaign for Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin, a documentary by Arwen Curry.
Continue readingSteve Silberman’s NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity makes a forceful case that autism and related conditions are not caused by some error in human development but rather are examples of the natural diversity of human … 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