A friend of mine in grad school, when excusing himself to go to the men’s room, always said, “I gotta go see a man about a dog.” Well, I have cats, not a dog, but there comes a time when you have to see a man about a cat, too. Especially when it’s a...
Read more →Ganked from an old post at Seoul Daddy. What can I say except it’s a stereotype for a reason? (Though there’s another stereotype lurking in there — the angry expat woman — which is also, well, a stereotype for a reason.) Or maybe archetype is the word...
Read more →My friend Maura mentioned selling some stories to this newish SF/F/H venue for fiction, called Thaumatrope, which publishes content Twitter-style. I don’t use Twitter myself — mainly because I can’t access it throughout the day, mobile-wise, at least not for now, and it feels like that would be the real point of Twitter. (That...
Read more →The Asimov’s SF 2008 Reader’s Awards ballot is up. If you’ve read the magazine for the year, you can vote for which Novella, Novelette, Short Story, Poem, and Cover you liked best. I’m not saying you should necessarily vote for either of my pieces that appear on the list — there’s lots of good...
Read more →I’m subscribed to a couple of hundred feeds over at Newsgator, but I have been seriously, seriously behind on nearly all of them — including the feeds of some close friends. I was just overwhelmed over the past year or so, and fell behind on everything. Anyway, in the past few days I chopped...
Read more →Gardner Dozois has posted the TOC for The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection, and if you check the list, you find my name beside my story “Lester Young and the Jupiter’s Moons’ Blues” which appeared in Asimov’s in July 2008. I’ve known for a few days now, and it is news I’m...
Read more →Somehow, a plugin I hadn’t used in ages was still running and shut down readers’ ability to comment. I didn’t realize it until just now, because I’ve posted so little over the holiday, but if you tried to comment over the last week or so, and couldn’t, that’s why. By the way, I’ve posted...
Read more →I won’t be updating for a day or two more — I’ve been (and still am) ill enough to be taking medicine, though it’s nothing serious. But I do plan on posting year end stuff, just, er, late. For now, this is something to do if you’re feeling ill like me.
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