I find I need a blog post like this just to keep track, myself, these days. All times are in the US Eastern Time Zone unless otherwise indicated. Tuesday, April 11th I’ll be teaching all about Plot for the Reach Your Apex Workshop series! Saturday, April 22nd 6:30pm, I’ll be Read more…
“The Trunk” is a jargon term in the writing world for, basically, stuff you have already written, waiting to find a home. It can be pejorative – the “Trunk story” sold by a big name writer which is actually quite flawed and should have been revised, the “We don’t want Read more…
This past weekend was Cleveland ConCoction, their first time back from Covid, and my first convention as a Nebula Award Finalist (TM)(R). I had a BLAST. It’s such a wonderful convention and more people need to know about it. There are two things they do I have never seen another Read more…
A common critique I got on my stories when I was starting out was, “You bring up this issue, but you don’t say anything about it.” Unlike “too slow” or “too fast” this critique didn’t present an obvious answer. I stared blankly at my manuscript. I wanted an issue, say Read more…
This blog topic was suggested by Maura Yzmore. Specifically, she asked what I felt the pros and cons were of publishing everything under my real name, if I felt it interfered with my professional life? Pro: My Day Job is Not Tied to Name Recognition I’m a computer programmer. I Read more…
Ji:Could you introduce ‘We Built This City’，which was nominated for the Nebula Award? Marie:I was raised by a single father, a construction worker, a laborer in the AFL-CIO. The very first short story I ever wrote, aside from school assignments and the “novels” which I started writing with great hubris in elementary Read more…
The first home I remember was the East 200th Street projects, in Euclid, Ohio. Before that, we lived in a brick apartment building which my older sister pointed out to me once, and said was much nicer. Our apartment had been on the third floor, which made it technically a Read more…