Did I mention that I have a niece, Mayson? Nearly a year old? And isn't it cute how I say 'have' as though I were taking any sort of credit for her existence or care? Heh. Well, she's adorable, and when she's in high school I think she's going to be about ten feet tall.

I'm also pretty sure she's a future author. The evidence:


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While I very, very rarely create characters that are visually based on living (or once-living) actors and celebrities, it does happen from time to time. We all snatch inspiration and style where we can find it. The only sin in this department, I think, is to use a celebrity's name as a lazy shorthand replacement for actual description ( Read more... )

I meant to put this up yesterday, but I was out at a birthday party and crashed early once I got home. Without further ado, your weekly dose of hidden lore:

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After digging through my papers this week, I was surprised to find just how many scraps, notes, and lists had survived from the Early Days of The Lies of Locke Lamora. Far more than I ( Read more... )

Those looking to receive soonest notice of new and forthcoming scribbles by yours truly (those not in possession of a TARDIS, that is) can subscribe to the scintillating new SCOTT LYNCH NEWSLETTER mailing list (I opted for utility rather than cutesiness, though I knew I could easily attract 100,000 subscribers just by calling it SAM SYKES MUST DIE ( Read more... )

This marks the first week of my latest effort to fight back my anxiety and panic attacks and be more public. I have tried before, in various states of medication, and have never quite "succeeded." If I ever appear to be unduly short of temper or curt in any responses to comments, I'm sorry. I'm not the only one driving my brain when it comes to ( Read more... )

The Little Red Reviewer, Dark Cargo, SF Signal, Scruffy Fiction, and My Awful Reviews (among others), dear people that they are, are engaging in a group read-along of The Lies of Locke Lamora all month. Major discussion should happen on the weekends, starting next weekend, and I'm going to try to do my bit for the process by coughing up some ( Read more... )

I was a hard-core Sesame Street viewer from about 1979 to 1984, and my memories of the show are the sort of deep nostalgic tangle you'd expect, with a great deal of idiosyncratic noise blended into the signal. So, for many years, I carried around a vague but emotionally vivid recollection of a Sesame Street episode in which Big Bird and ( Read more... )

I am the Extra Special Bonus Paul Cornell was Busy and John Scalzi was Unavailable guest for the SF Squeecast's most recent episode, "the Awkward Episode." I joined Lynn Thomas, Elizabeth Bear, and Cat Valente to squee about things and to answer about ten minutes of questions at the end (well, they would have been about two minutes of questions but ( Read more... )

Anxiety is a fat steaming load and can get lost ( Read more... )

My contributor copy of TALES OF THE FAR WEST washed up on my little island today, and I realize that anxiety has been keeping me remiss in blabbing about it. Yea verily, I now blabbeth.


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