I'm trying to get rid of Rachel's old cage before I move ( Read more... )

Ok, party people, I have a request for you all. Go to this link:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1409417917/parsec-inks-triangulation-last-contact-anthologyThat's the anthology that my story, "Lord God Bird," will be appearing in. IF they get enough pledges to actually go to press. You're basically just signing up to buy a copy of the book (or ( Read more... )

Maybe I just missed it, but I don't recall any of you warning me that this Tamora Pierce stuff was habit-forming.

I started First Test on Saturday. Now I'm halfway through Page.

Hey party people -- I'm doing most of my blogging over at www.sarah-frost.com these days. There is a way to crosspost those entries here, but it involves turning this into a paid account, which I can't afford. (This account is one of the old ones that is both free and ad-free ( Read more... )

The Hugo nomination ballots are out! I've been asked for recommendations, so here's a list of my picks. I could also use some advice on some of these categories -- Novella and Novelette, for example. I mean, there's The Life-Cycle of Software Objects, but it's hardly Ted Chiang's best work... anyway. My picks ( Read more... )

I have not posted on LJ for a while because

1) I'm writing, dammit.
2) Baen put the entire career of Miles Vorkosigan on the internet. I haven't jonesed this hard for a character since Harry Dresden.
3) I'm blogging at Escape Pod now. I'm trying to get a backlog going, but they post my reviews as fast as I can send them. Eep.
4) My podcast, the ( Read more... )

I was sympathetic to the whole Avatar: The Last Airbender racefail, but it was never my show so I didn't have the... visceral reaction that a lot of people did.

Only now apparently some white guy is being considered for the role of Kaneda in a live-action Akira. And it kind of breaks my brain. Are there NO Japanese actors in California? Really? ( Read more... )

I just finished "Warrior's Apprentice." Miles is awesome, so long as he's not moping about how he can't get girls (by which he doesn't mean he can't get any girls, just that he can't get the ones he wants). I kind of want to throw my half-written novel aside and write a space opera ( Read more... )

The barnacle is named for the barnacle goose. No one in medieval Europe had ever seen a baby barnacle goose (because these geese migrate to the Arctic to breed), but they had found strange looking crustaceans clinging to driftwood. Being medieval scholars, they concluded that barnacles were a kind of fruit that grew into barnacle geeseIn other news ( Read more... )

I'm back from World Fantasy Con! That was intense. I decided to go as A Professional Author, and I'm very glad I did. I think I met one person who was not involved with the publishing industry somehow -- most of the people I met were professional writers ( Read more... )