Though I am not overall a fan of Discovery, I do wholeheartedly give S2 credit for reintroducing Pike's Enterprise into the ST universe and ultimately getting it greenlighted for its own spinoff. Thanks to COVID, Strange New Worlds is progressing slowly, so I may be jumping the gun by a few years, but I find myself hoping that the end of that ( Read more... )

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As the apocalypse continues, and I begin to go stir crazy from not being able to set foot outside in the smoke (literally feeling sick walking to the mailbox), I wanted to share a couple of philosophically/spiritually uplifting reads:

Wind, a short-story manhwa by Yuyun, which is about Buddhist monk and a two-tailed fox in WWII-era Korea. It is ( Read more... )

This issue:
* Tell me your favorite non-Eurocentric stories.
* Report from the Willamette Writers Conference
* Short story acceptance for anthology of spiritual literature

Full newsletter with links and stuff is here.

What Are Your Favorite Non-Eurocentric Stories?
Question of the month: What are your favorite non-Eurocentric stories? This mean stories ( Read more... )

For my July author newsletter, I've given up trying to be cool and am embracing the voices in my head, which means-what else?-I'm going to write about Blake's 7 and why it's finally time for a reboot! [Newsletter essay posted here.] For the uninitiated, Blake's 7 is a 1970s BBC space opera about a band of freedom fighters striving to overthrow the ( Read more... )

Disclaimer: This is a personal reflection, not a prescription for what anyone else should do.

So there's a certain social media storm about certain author's views and to what extent they warrant boycotting or completely "giving up" her works. (I'm not going to spell out the specifics out of regard for the effort to not increase her platform-but you ( Read more... )

Highlights from my Author Newsletter

On Seeking Cultural ConsultingOne of the puzzlements for a white writer in this age is how to walk the line between writing works that are too Eurocentric and appropriating the culture of a group you don’t belong to. I’ve pondered this for years while my writing hovered semi-safely in the Continuation Universe ( Read more... )

Writing to Sustain HopeHappy New Year! After a jam-packed fall term, it’s been a relief to have a slower winter break and a little time to reflect. While I’m still enthusiastic about Workable Utopias, which launched this newsletter, I’ve moving toward a focus on the rhetoric of "hope." The word “utopia” carries complicated and negative connotations ( Read more... )

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