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“The Curse of Sally Tincakes” gets lead spot in IGMS issue 28
About 10 days ago I had a rather significant nerdgasm when editor Edmund Schubert let me know I was going to get the cover of Issue 28, Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show. Having the lead...
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Catching up with . . . Bryan Thomas Schmidt
This week it’s my pleasure to chat with friend, writer, and editor Bryan Thomas Schmidt. Bryan and I first became acquainted through Mike Resnick in 2011, and we each have stories appearing in the...
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The Conservative Menace?
My colleague Jay Lake put up a rather interesting post at his blog, explaining why he spends a fair amount of time banging on about the ills of Conservativism in the United States: why he thinks it’s...
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The Conservative Menace, Part 2
As a follow-up to Jay Lake’s response to my most recent post in this space, I wanted to specifically address something Jay wrote: I want certain things for myself and all my fellow citizens, including:...
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This Day In Astronautics History ► July 17, 1975: The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
38 years ago today, the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project made its first successful docking between the United States’ Apollo CM/SM, and the Soviet Union’s Soyuz spacecraft. The remarkable thing to me about...
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This Day In Astronautics History ► July 20, 1969: Apollo 11 touches down
43 years ago today, a little spacecraft called Eagle touched down on the surface of Earth’s moon. Onboard were 38 year old civilian test pilot Neil Alden Armstrong, and 39 year old United States Air...
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Catching up with . . . Mur Lafferty
Chicon 7 — the 70th annual World Science Fiction Convention — is now about 30 days away. In the lead-up to the con I wanted to take some time to interview each of the other four writers who are listed...
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Catching up with . . . Karen Lord
This week I have Karen Lord, fellow 2012 Campbell nominee, and author of the novels Redemption in Indigo and the forthcoming The Best of All Possible Worlds: . . . My first novel (fantasy) Redemption...
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Thank you Chicon 7 voters!
I want to send a tremendous and very excited THANK YOU to everyone at Worldcon (Chicon 7) who believed in me — and my novelette, “Ray of Light,” — enough to give me your stamp of approval. Now that the...
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On Being Unprofessional
I’ve been in the “pro” science fiction biz for almost 3 years. In that time I’ve become used to the idea that not every writer or editor is a professional — in the sense that what “professional” means...
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Double release! “The Exchange Officers” and “The Shadows of Titan” now out!
It’s a double release for me this week. Not only is my novelette “The Exchange Officers” appearing in the January-February issue of Analog Science Fiction & Fact magazine (with a lovely...
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Ruminations on firearms, rights, training, and culture
There’s been another highly-publicized and highly-political bit of firearms violence in the news this week. As always when this happens, I find myself approaching the issue from a couple of different...
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Ruminations on work
Talking to my Dad last night, I realized that in the last 19 years, the longest I’ve ever been without work is 3 business days. No joke. I’ve both quit and been fired from jobs. In the case of the...
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February Update: LTUE 2013
Life just keeps getting busier. January was a bang-up month for me, with two short fiction sales and several writing checks coming over the transom. As always — when the money spigot turns itself on —...
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Science Fiction’s political failure 3: Han Solo shoots first
My friend (and assistant editor at Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show) Scott M. Roberts, posted this rather stunning piece of commentary to Facebook this morning. I’ve quoted him in blocks...
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Superstars Writing Seminars 2013
One thing I’ve noticed lately is the proliferation of writing workshops. Everyone and their dog seems to be teaching one. Dozens upon dozens of workshops. So how do you determine which ones are worth...
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The Torgersen Equation
In many professional fields, there is usually a formula you can follow to become successful: pick a career path, obtain the necessary schooling and on-the-job training, apply what you’ve learned in day...
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Why slacktivism sucks (and what you can do about it!)
Here’s the thing about slacktivism. It affords ordinarily sedentary people the ability to get warm fuzzies for “doing something” about The Problem™ without actually having to do something about the...
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Noxious people, noxious weeds
Thought, as I dug around in my garden tonight: noxious people are like noxious weeds. Noxious people need sycophants (soil) and social media outlets (sunshine) and attention (water) to thrive. Take...
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Writer Dad: Mike Resnick
author note: as excerpted from my pending short story compilation, Lights in the Deep . . . . I spent a long time laboring anonymously—without publication—before I broke into the field with my first...
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