The ongoing Texas polygamous cult saga — or, those clothes! That hair!

Warning: Following rant, not about writing. Ladies, can we have a consensus here? Basically, if some guy tells you you can’t get to heaven unless you have sex with him and his buddies and have their babies, oh yeah and dress the way he tells you, and then marries off your teenage daughters to his buddies, well, no.  He’s not a prophet, he doesn’t have a direct line to God, he just wants to get laid, Read more…

Book signing at the Nebulas

The Nebulas are being held in Austin, Texas, this year  (April 25-27) and a bunch of folks from the Austin spec fic writing community are going, especially people in the Slug Tribe and Cryptopolis writers groups. (Cryptopolis is the buncha upstarts who put together the Tales from the Secret City anthology.) We usually just get together for Armadillocon so this is a bonus. I’m looking forward to being a fan-girl and oohing and aahing over Read more…

Half a million or 500,000 — either way, that’s a lot of words

Random thought: Call me, I don’t know, crazy, but there’s such a thing as too much hockey. Just a thought, just throwing it out there, but man, four nights in an ice rink is too much. K’s team lost in a heartbreaker tonight, 6-5, ending their season. It was a great game, they played like champs, but I’m just now getting warm again.  Anyway. Someone, can’t remember who, said you have to write 500,000 badly written Read more…