I’m participating in a reading at Wiscon: Magic, Mermaids, and Other Things Starting with “M” A YA Fantasy reading by Kat A. Beyer Sarah Prineas Jenn Reese Heather L. Shaw Saturday 1:00-2:15, Conference Room 2 Look for our flyers. We’ve left spaces for you to suggest “Other Things Starting with M.” If we like your [...]
Read More ...Archive for May, 2007
The sparks are returning. You know the feeling–when almost anything can trigger a story idea or send you hurtling down a new thought path. Music works for me. A stray lyric, a mood. And photographs. And documentaries. And other people’s conversations at the coffeehouse. And news articles, stray comments from strangers, radio essays, movies, comics, [...]
Read More ...Recent events include: 1. A Thursday night short film screening hosted by Cornell Club LA and run by my buddy Shelley Stuart. The six films were almost all good, and several were far, far better than I was expecting. I saw: * The Morning Fog * Room 27 * Window * Soldier * Yasin * [...]
Read More ...I’ll add to the chorus of voices recommending “The Hotel Astarte” by M.K. Hobson in the June 2007 issue of Realms of Fantasy. Yummy sense of wonder!
Read More ...Senses Five Press will publish Paper Cities, edited by Ekatarina Sedia, in November of this year. Read all about it! The anthology will contain my story “Taser,” which is a companion piece to my Polyphony 4 story “Memree.” I’m really looking forward to this one!!
Read More ...Here’s an interesting tidbit from Communicating Gender Diversity by Victoria Pruin DeFrancisco and Catherine Helen Palczewski: The term proxemics refers to the study of personal space, the invisible area around a person that is considered her or his territory. The size of personal space with which a person feels comfortable varies greatly by culture (Sommer, [...]
Read More ...Last week’s episode of HEROES reminded me (and everyone) of Watchmen, and this week’s makes me think The X-Men. Not bad. Not bad at all. Of course, I’m only 18 minutes in so far…
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