My friend Lauren has given me a new soapbox and she wants me to write about Burning Man. My first post is entitled Why the Fuck would you want to go to Burning Man?
There are a lot of reasons not to go to Burning Man. If you’re going just because you’ve heard there is free [...]
The last few days have been productive ones. I still am not producing as many new words as I would like, but I have had some fertile brainstorming sessions and have a lot of ideas in my head. I sent out a couple query letters for overdue submissions. This weekend I revised “Becoming” and sent [...]
A couple weeks ago I moved back to Austin from Houston. This had always been a possibility from the day I moved to Houston. While I met many people I love there, the city itself never felt like home to me. For a lot of reasons, the move to Austin made sense.
In some ways, it’s [...]
I moved this month, which always has the effect of draining me of energy for writing and many other things. On the other hand, despite the upheaval this has caused in my life, I am in a much better place to live — cleaner, happier, more social. My muse would not let me rest for [...]
My review of Cory Doctorow’s latest novel, Makers, is available from the SF Site:
Many science fiction novels ask, “What is the next big thing?” This is hardly a surprising trend. Within our own lifetimes, we have seen a succession of these next big things. It’s a theme as old as the genre itself. Makers, the extraordinary new [...]