Did this over at the Magic District, so go see!
Archive for July 2009
Reminder: reading tonight!
Diaspora of the Fantastic made TimeOut New York! Except I’m “others”. Alas.
Anyway, I’m going to be reading from “Non-Zero Probabilities”, a new (unpublished) short story that I just finished revising at 3 a.m. this morning when, in a fit of angst, I decided I could not could not COULD NOT read the piece [...]
Diaspora of the Fantastic this Thursday!
Just a reminder — this coming Thursday I’m going to be doing a reading with some other phenomenal black women writers at BlueStockings Books in NYC. Details and RSVP here, though the RSVP isn’t absolutely necessary. The readers will be li’l ol’ me, Bram Stoker award-winner Linda Addison; Alaya Dawn Johnson, who’s already [...]
On Book Covers and Race
I’ve been following and participating in the “Ain’t That A Shame” post over at Justine Larbalestier’s blog, in which she takes the risky (for an author) step of calling her publisher on its decision to post a white face on the cover of her forthcoming novel Liar.
Whitewashing — the fannish term for when fictional characters [...]
I got Mind Melded! Post Launch Pad
Am back from Launch Pad. Much to relate, in particular my conviction that Gay Haldeman is the nicest person in the solar system, but it’ll have to wait ’til I’ve processed things a bit and also until after I’ve finished the Book 2 revision, which I am now slightly behind schedule on. Going [...]
3…2…1… Lift off!!
Am off to Launch Pad, the phenomenal NASA-sponsored astronomy workshop in Laramie, Wyoming. Will be hanging out for a week with phenomenal people, seeing phenomenal stuff in the sky. Phenomenal!! I’ve never been to that part of the country, either, so it should be interesting to see a real “old West” (if [...]
New post at the Magic District
…in which I confess a certain uncouth interest in delicate matters; a.k.a., fanfiction.
Honorable Mention in Year’s Best SF!
By way of fellow Fluidian Mercurio Rivera, good news: my short story “Playing Nice With God’s Bowling Ball” (Baen’s Universe, 2008) received an Honorable Mention in Gardner Dozois’ Year’s Best Science Fiction!
I write a lot more SF than I ever manage to sell — which tells me that maybe I don’t write it very [...]
