Today, I have the pleasure of sharing with you an interview with Jay Lake. This is my first interview with somebody I have not either met in person or interacted with regularly online, although we do have a lot of common friends. Jay was kind enough to be just as… Continue reading
One of the challenges I face in my writing career is that of momentum. It can easily be summarized with Newton’s First Law = An object at rest remains at rest, an object in motion remains in motion. I am very much a momentum writer. I wrote my short novel… Continue reading
Not a huge amount of editing this past week due to final exams in the classes I was teaching. I did a few chapters. Also this past weekend I attended LepreCon 39. Was on panels Friday and Saturday and met Jack McDevitt. We’ll see an interview with him on Wednesday… Continue reading
Every now and then, an opportunity comes along to create something incredible. Now is such a time. David Gerrold, a screenwriter for the original Star Trek series, has been pitching a series based on his Star Wolf novels to networks for years and years. After many almost deals falling apart,… Continue reading
As the Scout Law aspect to the Thursday Thoughts meme winds down, we hit point #11, a scout is clean. I’m not going to pontificate on “clean of mind and body” as the scouts do. Clean living means different things to different people. For instance, a hard-working person with no… Continue reading
Today, we’re chatting with a writer who has burst onto the main stage of speculative fiction over the past few years, Mary Robinette Kowal. I met Mary online in the writers workshop at Orson Scott Card’s website, Hatrack River. About a year later, we met at Card’s Literary Boot Camp…. Continue reading
I managed to edit about a hundred pages of A Darkling Nine this week, much of it yesterday. It’s coming along nicely, but I have not yet reached the point where I stopped writing for several months. I’m not sure how much I’ll get to edit this coming week as… Continue reading
Funny things can happen in this universe. I went to high school with a man named Tom Underberg. I haven’t seen him since graduation and hardly heard from him even after we connected on Facebook. I had no idea he is writing spec fic until just today. About a week… Continue reading
I have been going through the 12 points of the scout law to kick off this meme. Today we’re looking at point 10, a scout is brave. When we think of bravery, images of people running into a burning building to rescue somebody come to mind. That certainly is one… Continue reading
Today we’re chatting with Lon Prater. He is a retired naval officer, and I’ve known Lon virtually through Codex since 2005. For somebody unfamiliar with the work of Lon Prater, how would you describe your fiction and which story do you think is the best introduction to your work? My… Continue reading
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