Writer crit group today did some serious rocking. It was so nice to hang out with fab writers in a non-drafty hall. People are awesome. In other news people work really hard to save lives after earthquakes, fight for fair government, co-ordinate search parties for my first real editor, fight for their unions and fair working conditions and many ( Read more... )

Last weekend I was a Non Skating Official for the Pacific North West Open Scrimmage. Isla came down early and helped setup. She played hard for the women's derby as well as the co-ed derby (co-ed derby is brutal... first time penalty tracking for me and the guys were chocking up major penalties left right and centre). Isla Eatyobabies was lovely, ( Read more... )

There have been some interesting discussions about Speculative Fiction in recent times Cat Valente as always wrote some interesting thought provoking stuff. The Ferret posted a poll... and from that this blog post was born. Trying to articulate what Spec Fic means to me. I don't expect people to feel obliged to take on my values and labeling ( Read more... )

Described by Ken Schneyer as a "weird, disturbing little story," Shape for Her is now up on Moonlight Tuber. I hope you enjoy it.

Also, a photo of Graffiti in the Alphabet District of New York


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I popped this up on my website a few days ago, but bad liz, bad! I neglected to cross post it here. For those of you with interest.
( Update of Clarion Archive, photo with one of my clarion instructors Robert Crais and general Clarion excitement )

Fire alarm in our building. Evacuated. Then saw what looked like smoke from relatively controlled fire on my floor. Feared people still in the building, maybe someone had an accident while something on the stove now smoldering at preventable stage. I didn't want our stuff to burn or be water damaged by sprinklers if it was preventable and I hated ( Read more... )

 Working away at my novel. It's a run on sentence that will change in the final cut, but the content pleases me. Work in Progress ( Read more... )

This morning I realized/remembered this morning, that I first met Garth Nix around 15 years ago. Probably.

I knew an author had come to my school and talked about his book and career and publishing, but I only just pieced together that it was probably Garth Nix. Author Man had come to my school to talk about his book and about being a writer. Some ( Read more... )

It's exciting to think I am organized enough to be a proper Livejournal citizen again. It sounds silly, but if feels a little like going home. Life felt too chaotic to be able to engage in LJ properly while we were finding our feet in America... and before that packing up our lives and letting go. I'm really touched that people who have wonderful ( Read more... )

And so the cross posting begins. I shall try to be good!

Daily Science Fiction has bought a second story from me "A Study in Flesh and Mind". I am quite pleased, quite pleased indeed. I updated my bio just for them:

Liz’s work has been published in a range of journals and anthologies including The Pedestal Magazine, Meanjin and Daily Science Fiction. ( Read more... )