This is the week where we go

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!

I was just talking with the provost of the university here, and told him I'm a sf/f writer, and he said, yeah there's this sf writing thing that we're interested in bringing here.

He was talking about Clarion East!

Eeeek!

So I finally got around to seeing Pirates of the Caribbean II. Was it just me, or did the plot make absolutely no sense? Just one thing after another! As soon as the wheel at the abandoned mill appeared I leaned over and whispered to John, "somebody's going to have a swordfight on that wheel ( Read more... )

Today is a good day among the Prineii.

My husband, John, is an assistant professor of physics, and he turned his tenure package in today. Getting this package of materials ready was a big huge freaking deal--it fills an entire portable file like this one and includes statements about teaching, research, and service, all of his published articles ( Read more... )

Gah! My cats have fleas. Fleas ( Read more... )

The Greg Brown concert last night was lousy. What a bummer! First off, it was a bait and switch: the first half of the concert was his daughter, Pieta Brown, and I'm sorry, but the 45 minutes of her set were boring. Her vocal range is very limited and though, as John says, 'it's not the range, it's what you do with it,' she wasn't doing much ( Read more... )

John and I got married the summer he graduated from college. The omens were not good: a hurricane hit my hometown and we had no power or water in the house, with 18 guests, for a week, and my mom had to bribe a power crew to come down our rural road to fix the powerlines for the wedding reception. The day after the wedding, I lost my engagement ( Read more... )

A couple of years ago, when I was starting to get serious about writing, I realized that a lot of writers have other creative outlets in their lives. They do felting, or archery, or embroidery, or cartooning, or folk dancing, or making movies, or beading, or playing the recorder. Several very good writer friends are very serious about martial ( Read more... )

Three boxes from Simon & Schuster arrived with 26 books to consider for the Norton Award (I'm on the jury ( Read more... )

There’s all kinds of discussion, some of it heated, some of it really cool, going on over at ccfinlay's house about the Babe Bomb, the plan for women writers to send stories to the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction on August 18th.

Discussion is great. Means people are thinking and talking about the magazine, about editorial taste, about gender in ( Read more... )