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…

The Warlord and the Princess — the first story.

Obviously, we’re still under construction, but as a thank you for coming by, I wanted to share one of my short stories. This was the very first story I sold. It was accepted by Beyond the Rose, an Irish magazine, which I think is no longer in print, and I got five dollars. It then sold as a reprint to Andromeda Spaceways In-Flight Magazine, the fine Australian SFF magazine. If you haven’t ever read it, Read more…