I met Sheila Finch in Tempe, Arizona last year at Westercon. Sheila and I were the only two members to attend the scheduled SFWA meeting, but since two members does not meet quorum, we just sat and chatted for the hour. Sheila’s reputation as a writer precedes her.  The 1998… Continue reading
Over the course of the next two weeks or so, I will be posting a little information on the authors contributing to the 2020 Visions Anthology. The order is the sequence I expect the stories to appear in the anthology. It opens with a short piece from Mary Robinette Kowal…. Continue reading
Today is release day for the debut novel of writer Mary Robinette Kowal.   Shades of Milk and Honey (Tor, 2010) is touted as being the novel Jane Austen would have written if she wrote fantasy.  It’s an interesting comparison that I can’t really comment on because (my bad) I have… Continue reading
Today, I get to be officially jealous. One of my classmates at Orson Scott Card’s Literary Boot Camp in 2005 got some good news this evening. Mary Robinette Kowal, who I noted just yesterday as being a non-male SF writer to check out, earned a huge trophy for her shelf… Continue reading
From time to time, I want to take some space to introduce you to some up and coming writers to keep an eye on. Today, let’s talk about Eric James Stone. A few years ago, Eric won the Phobos fiction contest, and he is a Writers of the Future winner…. Continue reading
I Met Harlan Ellison Today! Attended the friday portion of the Nebula Awards Weekend in Tempe. Spent the early hours wandering around the hospitality suite. Met Karen Anderson, widow of the late great Poul Anderson, one of my all-time favorite writers. Very nice lady. I attended a lecture on Current… Continue reading
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