Archive | the writing life

11 September 2011 ~ 3 Comments

Space Squid Gone Wild — a must-have “Best of” anthology

The Squid is back. Space Squid Gone Wild is the Best of Space Squid collection you have all been waiting for. Yeah yeah, my story “Bad Amy,” is in it, in which I reveal the supernatural cause of the 2000 NASDAQ stock plunge. Remember that one? Before the latest recession that incinerated our life savings [...]

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09 September 2011 ~ 7 Comments

Life and other strange things

The gas company is fixing a leak across the street. East of Austin, an entire county is on fire. I’m feeling a little nervous right now. First up: if you haven’t gone over to My Jane Austen Book Club, what are you waiting for? My interview is up, and you can comment for a chance [...]

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22 August 2011 ~ 2 Comments

ArmadilloCon preparations and various other stuff

I’ve been prepping for ArmadilloCon by reading the manuscripts for the writers workshop and coming up with questions for Paolo Bacigalupi for the guest interview. The current Locus has an interview with him and at first I was like, hey, they stole my thunder, but actually Locus just made it a little bit easier for [...]

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