I’m back from WorldCon 2016, feeling inspired and getting words on the page on my new project (with some very specific goals for this year; more on that later). The best part was seeing friends from the CSSF workshops at the…
I’m heading out shortly to Kansas City for MidAmericon II, which is also the World Science Fiction Convention for 2016, and the Campbell Conference! While I’m there, I’ll also be Drinking a Boulevard Pale Ale or two. The Pacific Northwest has…
I’ve been re-reading The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle (which I originally wrote about here), and was struck by an anecdote about the Z-Boys, amazingly talented skaters from southern California who honed some of their skating chops by roaming drought-struck suburban neighborhoods and…
This just in: I have finished revising the current novel (a contemporary fantasy novel for young adults). Next steps: querying agents, and working on some short story ideas that have been in the hopper for a loooooooong time, awaiting this…
Here is a letter that I’m sending to various elected officials at various levels of government. I’m hoping to refine it and make some more specific calls to action, but I figure it’s better to post a working version here…