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  • Via Stork

    If you’re wondering about the title, it’s an answer to “Where do ideas come from?” Probably a more realistic answer, at least for my process, is that when two ideas really love each other… I have two short stories vying for my attention at the moment (and of course, the second book to be working…

  • Post Con

    I’m back! Con was a ton of fun, as they so often are, especially since Norwescon is at the center of several of the spheres of my past. I ran into someone from high school there this year. I also got to be on my best attended panels ever, thanks to Jim Butcher. In his…

  • Science and fiction

    A pause in my con preparations for a thinky post. I read this article this morning (courtesy of Jay Lake and Ken Scholes) and found it extremely interesting. It talks about how the brain tends to reject evidence to the contrary of what we already believe, no matter how compelling. I also found it refreshing…

  • Norwescon Schedule

    I’ve been so busy getting ready for the con, I realized today that I’ve forgotten to post my schedule. This year, I’m on two panels: Friday 11am Grand 3 Dark Urban Fantasy and Horror Urban Fantasy has a darker side which depends heavily on horror tropes and often steps deeply into the dark side of…

  • Lab friends

    So I was down in the basement lab the other day, and I opened a cupboard to find a lab creature I hadn’t seen for a while. I figured I should introduce the denizens of the lab to you all! Photos below:

  • Story success!

    I finished my short on schedule! A day early, in fact, but that’s because it came out only 4k. I tend to run short on my first drafts. Dunno why. Personality, I guess! It often seems that the writers I know more often run long. Watched Mega-Python vs. Gateroid today with a friend. It was…

  • Short story marathon!

    First off: comments are working! This weekend, I’m thinking of doing a little bit of a self-challenge, and seeing if I can finish a short story in one weekend. It’s not really that I need to push myself to finish things, but I should actually be working on Book 2 at the moment, so I’d…

  • Line edits

    Before I launch into the main topic, housekeeping: my webmaster and I are working on changing comments this weekend, so you don’t need an account to post one. You can always head over to my facebook and comment on the link for the current post too, though. It’s also good for following new posts if…

  • Damn you, Mountain Deeeeeeew!

    The short stories replies have arrived, and both of them are back out on to their next destination. Hopefully tonight I’ll also have some time to jot down some notes about legal fu for book three that I got from my friend the lawyer when I was visiting her this weekend. (It still seems strange:…

  • Basement Coyotes

    This week seems to be a waiting game: both the markets I have stories with at the moment are taking longer than usual to get back to me, though I suppose I can’t blame the reply coming via mail snails. The mail snails are very earnest! They’ve dropped off a great number of my short…

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