Dear Convention organizers and volunteers, You are the beating heart and wise soul of the science fiction convention circuit. Your involvement, planning, enthusiasm, and just plain super-hero energy are what makes the con world go ’round. I can’t even run my own life — I don’t think I could run a con. And you guys do it every year. You have to deal with hotels that forget to tell you they have a 110-decibel Christian rock Read more…
I will be at ConDFW this weekend. Looks to be a good one. Since I despise the drive from Austin to Dallas, I’m taking the bus, and actually I’m looking forward to it. I can get some reading done, and maybe even some writing. That would be nice. I’m going to be on the following panels: Saturday, 11am: Return of the Lone Western Panelists: Sabine Starr (M), Scott A. Cupp, Tex Thompson, Linda Donahue, Patrice Sarath, Read more…
After a pretty decent 2015, stirring things are in the air for 2016. Lots to look forward to, to keep up the momentum. Here’s where I’ve been: In 2015 I sold one short story “Murder on the Hohman,” forthcoming in the anthology Futuristica) I sold a nonfiction article for the SFWA Bulletin, forthcoming in February, on writing with a day job I wrote The End on one novel and finished revisions on another one (inasmuch Read more…