I'm teaching a class at Book Passage in Corte Madera, so if anyone in the Bay Area is interested in having some fun, doing some writing, and exploring creativity, check it out.

Where Do You Get Your Ideas? Improv for Writers

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Book Passage -- Corte Madera

Four Wednesdays • Jan. 14 - Feb. 4 ($155)

Remember when writing was fun? If you’ ( Read more... )

Spent a lot of time at World Fantasy in Calgary making sure that friends in Canada (and Australia and England and...) would take me in if the unthinkable happened yesterday -- and it didn't. He won! Hallelujah. (News on my civil rights here in California not so good this morning, though.)

So to celebrate the victory of democracy, and my brand new ( Read more... )

White Sands, Red Menace is officially published. On shelves. Ready to read.

Thanks to all my friends who helped me get through a long, hard summer, so I can celebrate today.

It was Ladies' Day at the indoor shooting range in Tucson, so coffeeem and I went down to try our hands. I had a .38 revolver, and if I'm ever attacked by a paper target at 15 feet, I may be able to hold my own.


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A nice shoutout to 
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Hey Ya'll --

The Live Long and Marry auction ends tomorrow (Tuesday, July 15th), so if you want to try and snag an advance copy of my new book -- or any number of other wonderful goodies -- you'd better hustle on over and take a look.

http://community.livejournal.com/livelongnmarry/149195.html

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I just got some advanced reading copies of my new book, White Sands, Red Menace, the sequel to The Green Glass Sea.

I've offered a signed copy up on the LJ Live Long and Marry auction site:

http://community.livejournal.com/livelongnmarry/149195.html

In case the link falters, tags to search for are Ellen Klages, Green Glass Sea, signed book.

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Thanks to everyone who responded with emails and good thoughts last month after my Dad died. It helped a lot. I'm coping, some days better than others.

I'm going to be spending a lot of time in Ohio over the next few months, dealing with the house etc., and also with my sister Sally, who has Down Syndrome and lives in a group home in Columbus. Sal's ( Read more... )

My dad died about an hour ago. He was 85, had been in the hospital with pneumonia for a week, and was not expected to recover. But he wasn't expected to go quite this fast, either.

Not a lot of you knew him in person, but many of you have heard me tell stories about him. He was a fly-fisherman, a racounteur, a photographer, a painter, a life-long ( Read more... )

I love writing short fiction and genre fiction. But writing a kids book is a whole 'nother universe. I've been on the road for the last few weeks, doing school visits (Hi Aspen and Piñon and Sequoia students! Hi Horizons kiddos!) and Saturday's mail contained a whole packet of thank-you letters from kids at West Seattle Montessori School. The 1st- ( Read more... )