Pantsing
I have always been a plotter — that is, in the great debate between the plotters, the people who work out their plot in advance of the writing, and the pantsers, the people who work…
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Mathey & Lynes Update!
I’m delighted to announce that Amy Griswold’s and my gay Victorian fantasy-mysteries, Death By Silver and A Death at the Dionysus Club, are being reprinted by Queen of Swords Press. Death By Silver will be…
The Turning of the Year
It’s that time again, between the Solstice and the New Year, when the sun stands still in its rising point and the holidays come thick and fast. It’s the one time of the year when…
Adding Mastodon
So now that Twitter’s new owner has set the place on fire, I have established a new outpost on Mastodon — @blueterraplane@wandering.shop. This instance has quite a lot of SF/F people on it, and so far…
AI and Consequences
Recently, the Washington Post profiled a Google engineer who believes that a Google-created AI, LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications), has achieved sentience — that it has become a person, the equivalent of a “7-year-old,…
Pride Storybundle 2022
It’s time for the latest Pride Storybundle! Once again, Catherine Lundoff and I have pulled together a collection of outstanding LGBTQIA+ SF/F, with five books in the main bundle and ten in the bonus. You’ll find…
Reworking Things
Elise Matheson (aka Lioness) just had an interesting post on her Patreon about having to go back and rework a piece of jewelry because of an unexpected problem with some of the included beads. (By…
Reemerging
It’s been far too long since I last posted, for which I apologize. Partly, it’s that 2021 was not a particularly good year personally. I lost family, friends, and cats, and have been dealing with…
Autumn Update
This has been a busy and often difficult late summer/fall, beginning with an unexpected death in the family that required considerable attention and travel at the height of the latest COVID surge and again during…