This is a memoir piece I wrote for Argot Magazine, which has since been taken down. I’m a nerdy freshman at Case Western Reserve University, hoping to major in Science Fiction and Some Type of Science (I hadn’t picked one yet) when I’m walking back from class. I see a Read more…
That was a LOT. Let’s break it down into highlights. Launch Party! The Gods Awoke launched September 1, the first day I’d be at WorldCon, so rather than make any plans for an at-convention Book Launch Party, I publicly announced THE DAY BEFORE on Facebook and Twitter that I’d share Read more…
A friend tweeted that they had complicated feelings about writing awards (like the Hugos which just happened last weekend) but that they deleted their thread about it because they didn’t want to be judged for not being 100% happy. And I thought, “I’ll take this bullet.” Someone you don’t like Read more…
A friend of mine had recently gotten into cycling, and asked me, “I’m confused. Isn’t it that the lower a gear is, the more you have to pedal to move forward?” “Yes,” I said. “And higher gears allow you to go faster because each pedal push will turn the wheels Read more…
I had three-quarters of five novels in my closet, and twenty or so halves of short stories in my desk drawer. Let’s not mention the stuff in my sewing room… my life was full of unread books, unfinished mending, and knitting projects that were just a bag of yarn and Read more…
I applied to do a “Big Idea” blog post on John Scalzi’s blog for The Gods Awoke ,as I did for Galactic Hellcats. Well, I didn’t get it, but this is what I would have posted. If gods were real, could you believe? Should you? The Big Idea in The Read more…
I’ve talked and blogged a lot about the 2012 Clarion Write-a-thon, which was such a pivotal moment in my development as a writer. Recently, I took a look at my personal records of that experience and realized it was ten years ago! (I was looking for some old story drafts Read more…