I just don’t know what to say. I am utterly bereft. One of my heroes, my major influence, Anne McCaffrey, has passed away.In high school my friends and I read her Pern series over and over. We read The Ship Who books, the short stories (there’s a wonderful collection called Get Off The Unicorn that I still have somewhere). She wrote mainstream books too, about horses no less! I read everything I could get my Read more…
I just got my copy of the US edition of The Unexpected Miss Bennet — and my editor is right, it does look better in person! There is nothing like holding one’s own book, and I got to experience that twice this year.Whee! I would have pictures except that my camera’s battery died. No problem — I’ll just put in the spare … oh yeah, the spare that I didn’t charge. So, pics tomorrow, promise, Read more…
I got my October issue of Realms of Fantasy over the weekend. Then I found out today that the magazine is folding, this time for good. Realms has had more rebirths than the phoenix, seems like. It was the little magazine that would not die. Alas, ’twas not be. My short stories Into the Dark and Ice were both published in Realms of Fantasy, and they were two of my proudest sales. Shawna in her Read more…