Off to World Fantasy Con tomorrow morning. My schedule is as follows: I will be in the Dealers' Room.

See yinz there!!

Also, something I shouldn't laugh at:

The first sentence of the excerpt from the recent Connie Willis interview in Locus:

"All the genres are tools."

Yeah, my thoughts exactly.

Since the last update, I've had another $200 in donations ( Read more... )

Since the last update, I've had another $101 in donations (including book purchases ( Read more... )

I talked to Pam today. She sounds pretty good all things considered. She said she's finding out that she has the best friends and family in the world. The house is a complete loss. Since her husband has emphysema and can't rebuild it, they will probably start looking for a trailer ( Read more... )

I posted this last night. Today I heard more details... the power had gone out because of storms. Pam's husband had lit a candle (with a glass cover on it) and gone outside to feed the outside animals. When he started back in, he saw flames. No power meant no water and no phone ( Read more... )

Just heard that my cousin Pam's house caught fire this afternoon. Pam is my age. We grew up together. She bit my nose when we were about four years old because I wouldn't stop talking and she wanted to go to sleep. That's love, my friends ( Read more... )

Click on this link to learn more about the Love/Avon Army of Women.

http://www.armyofwomen.org/

The idea is to have one million women register as volunteers to be called upon by researchers. Sounds good to me!

...this would be a very good time to buy some books.

http://www.wheatlandpress.com

I reproduce this here in its entirety without apology for the length. This isn't about politics, it's about life and death. Imagine a time when we wouldn't have to have emergency online fundraisers for writers who are dying because they have no insurance ( Read more... )