Archive for the 'News' Category
Pleased! Pyr to publish two of my books
Writing is lots of work, a lot of rejections, a lot of work, a lot of learning, and – once more – a lot of work. Occasionally there’s a reward. I recently received a really great reward that I can finally talk about (translate that as the contracts are signed and in hand at [...]
New Story Out
I have a new story in “Under the Vale,” a fabulous collection of stories set in Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar.
New Story Out on “Under the Vale”
I have a new story in “Under the Vale,” a fabulous collection of stories set in Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar.
Congratulations to Daryl Gregory for Unpossible and Other Stories
Unpossible launched two weeks ago at World Fantasy, and has already garnered a “Year’s Best” nod from Publisher’s Weekly. This is fabulous news for both Daryl and for Fairwood Press, published by Patrick Swenson. Rose Fox wrote, ”This is a collection to linger over, or to set aside for as long as you can manage [...]
Happy Coincidences: Louise (who’s book I just recommended) is reading and teaching soon!
I just heard about this today, and here are the formal details: NW Media Arts and University Book Store present: Louise Marley READING AND SIGNING Friday, March 11, 2011 · 7:00 p.m. at the University Book Store NW Media Arts and Seattle’s University Book Store invite you to join us each month as we bring [...]
Math and Beauty: Celebrating a Life
We lost Benoit Mandelbrot. This man fired the imagination of a species by bringing us a way to see the beauty in the mathematical world, and to link the mysteries of high-order math and science to the mysteries and awe of nature. When I first found out about the Madelbrot set, I trolled my world [...]
If You Care About the Sea
You might want to pick up Book View Café’s benefit anthology for gulf relief. It’s only $4.99, available in a number of electronic formats. I have an original essay in it (almost more like an original rant) on the dangers of ignoring the ocean. There is original and reprint fiction, poetry, and other essays in [...]
Good Things in Threes
Most days, I still feel pretty invisible. I’m certainly not a famous science fiction writer, and no geek household name like Cory Doctorow or Charlie Stross that gets thrown around the interwebs regularly. But today is a very pleasant writer/futurist day from the point of being engaged in the bigger community conversation. ABCnews included quotes [...]
Squeel! New Ted Chiang
I was walking through Kirkland Honda when I looked down at the table in the waiting room and spotted a picture of a very contemplative and lovely Ted Chiang on the cover of City Arts magazine. Yes, Ted is lovely – writers aren’t supposed to overuse adjectives, but Ted is a lovely geek. Inside the [...]
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