Nebulas — Day One

Well that was fun. The first night of the Nebulas was the mass autographing where everyone roamed around and greeted old friends and there were plenty of rock stars for fans (and aren’t we all) to get autographs from and to ooh and aah over. The Tales from the Secret City authors mostly congregated at one table (and we let Jayme Blaschke sit with us because he said he would cry if we didn’t). We had Read more…

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…