Thanks to Judy Wil­son and Anthony Neil Smith for a cool time — great Q&A in the after­noon, fun read­ing that night, and lots of books signed. And thanks to Elli for FW’ing that pic, above; all the tro­phies, of course, are what I won for read­ing, just in the space of sixty min­utes or […]

Was read­ing over a novel I’m about to sub­mit, and kind of just men­tally tick­ing off the things I was going to be writ­ing ‘stet’ by after the copy edi­tor and proof­reader have had a go at it (assum­ing a lot here, I know, but hope springs, all that), so fig­ured it’d maybe just be […]

Just a note to say, yep, it’s all dif­fer­ent now. Got tired of the red and black stuff, just washed it all out grey and white. it looks like it should in Fire­fox, but I’m think­ing that, in IE or IE-driven stuff, the “em”-size CSS is going to get ignored, kind of throw­ing off some […]

Edi­tor Y: In today’s trend-oriented pub­lish­ing cli­mate, you need to either be the celebrity-of-the-moment or you need to have a bul­let­proof plan to plug into what’s hot, what’s guar­an­teed, what there’s already an audi­ence for. And, sir/madam/etc., that you don’t already know my name from the tabloids should sug­gest that, while not infa­mous for killing […]

if some­one at a party gets some kind of news that makes them drop what they’re drink­ing, the glass won’t shat­ter if two peo­ple are fight­ing and one of them has a pis­tol, then that per­son with the pis­tol will win. Which is to say we won’t have to have that shot of the gun […]

Third install­ments of a fran­chise the audi­ence is in love with are very dif­fi­cult to pull off. Nobody says Alien3 or Return of the Jedi or the third Scream are their favorites of the series, right? Even God­fa­ther III, as good as it might be, is over­shad­owed by the first two. Granted, by the third […]