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Arisia Schedule, at the last minute
Posting this quickly in the service of sleep before my first panel (of eight!).
Saturday 1/19 10AM - Embracing the Alien: Writing Believable ETs
Although a classic element of SF stories, many speculative works contain depictions of non-human intelligences. What registers to the human mind as "alien" without trailing into incomprehensibility? What are ( Read more... ) -
Chessiecon Schedule
I'll be at Chessiecon in Timonium MD this weekend. Here's my schedule--which includes a couple of non-standard panel topics which I should probably, um, think about while wrestling the turkey:
Friday 05:30 PM - 06:30 PM Unforgivable Villains with Understandable MotivesPeople are complex. The most interesting characters sometimes do terrible ( Read more... ) -
Patreon
Remember a few months ago when I was dithering about whether to start a Patreon? I've finally finished dithering, and launched the thing! If you head over you can pledge for access to deleted scenes, unpublished snippets, poetry, recipes, and Q&A. I've also added a few slots at which you can receive care packages from my characters--whether your ( Read more... ) -
Say Something Saturday (but actually Sunday because I just learned about this)
1. Something interesting that you learned this week
DC's rivers may be swimmable in the next few years, helped along by the sorts of citizen monitoring that play a prominent role in my work-in-progress.
2. Something you did or accomplished this week
Finally outlined my way through a plot knot. Got kids through their first week of school. Cleaned the ( Read more... ) -
Anniversaries
I'm out of town this weekend, glad to be with family, wishing I were in DC to help my family there defend the place from its enemies. And I stayed up late worrying and wrote a story about Obed Yringl'phtagn Marsh dealing with the anniversary of the Innsmouth raid and the start of World War II.
This is messy and new and only lightly edited, and ( Read more... ) -
Happy Bookday to Me
Deep Roots is out today!
You can find previews and giveaways on Tor.com.
Places you can find me, real and virtual:- Hanging out at Readercon in Boston
- At Pandemonium Books, also in Boston, July 17 at 7PM
- At the Hoover Library Science Fiction Festival in Hoover AL, July 27-29
- At the OutWrite queer literature festival in Washington DC, August 4
- 6-book ( Read more... )
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Balticon schedule
Current trends in speculative fiction show a preponderance of dystopian futures. Let’s look at the stories that don't fall into that mold.
Readings - Saturday 9PM
Michael M. Jones, Ruthanna Emrys, Jean Marie Ward
How to Use Speculative Fiction to Change the World - Monday 10AM
D.H. Aire (moderator), Ruthanna Emrys, Ted Weber, Ada Palmer
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Plagues and Dayenus
So this is what I posted on Twitter this morning:
Plagues so far: car shopping, insurance idiocy, broken oven, dog pee, chronic illness flare-ups. Dayenus: amazing householdmates, amazing landlord, & the realization that most of what we needed the oven for can be done on the grill if necessary.
It continued to be a very concretely illustrative day-- ( Read more... ) -
Deep Roots ARC giveaway
Deep Roots now exists in physical form, and I've got an ARC to share! Aphra heads to New York in search of long-lost relatives. But some of them have fallen in w/a dangerous--and not particularly human--crowd.
(I'm having trouble getting Dreamwidth to upload photos right now, but they're really pretty--John Jude Palencar makes good scary eyeball ( Read more... )
