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Reading Recommendation: Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell
This is a rare case of “Saw the movie, bought the book,” and even rarer case of “both worked.” For my usual readers, It’s NOT genre fiction, except to the extent the life of people in Ozark Mountains feels a planet away from Seattle. I’m currently working on a strong female character in my novel [...]
Reading Recommendation: One Monk and one Briggs
As I’ve posted, I’ve been dealing with cancer in the immediate family, which has pretty much shot my love for complexity (got enough of it, thank you very much). My favorite kind of fiction, which is dense and complex science fiction, is just not holding onto me — my little monkey-enabled brain is wandering [...]
Norwescon Schedule
For those of you who will be around Norwescon this weekend, here’s where you can for sure find me:
Friday, 9:00 a.m., Cascade 7
Climate Change in the 21st Century
There is more CO2 in the atmosphere now than at any time during the last 650,000 years. Climate alterations are expected to be serious: more intense storms, more [...]
Planning a Seattle Futures Meeting
I used to attend monthly futurist meetings in Santa Monica California, run by John Smart. They were great get togethers – a pile of people interested in talking about the future. Eclectic. It was scientists and techs from JPL and the local universities, people off the street, students, business people, consultants, etc. Often up to [...]
Geek Girl Goes Army
I was lucky enough to be an invited speaker and guest at the 2010 Mad Scientist Future Technology Center, put on by TRADOC G-2, which is part of the US Army. Other attendees were from various armed forces (including some form different countries), other science fiction writers, and subject matter experts in various science and [...]
Thanks so much!
I really appreciate the community out here – there were many post and retweets and the like to celebrate the Wings of Creation release yesterday. It makes a writer (at least this writer) feel surrounded by family even when she’s off at work and wearing her other, more mundane hats.
Congrats to Sara A. Mueller for [...]
Massively Multiplayer Online Gaming Site Interviews Me
I find the Wii a bit of challenge and run off the road easily in Mario Kart. I suspect that means I might be a klutz in an MMO world. Ah well, if I had time to play MMO games, I would love them. I’ve watched over shoulders before and sighed heavily. They’re like TV [...]
Off to Flyball-Land
I write books. My family does lovely things with dogs and tennis balls and pink uniforms. This weekend I’m doing the dog thing. If you’re interested in dogs and tennis balls and leaping over jumps, here is a video of the high end of the sport. We will post info at http://www.threedogsblog.com if we have [...]
In Which the Sf Signal Mind Meld Talks About First SF Reads
I got to participate again. I really like these – both doing my little snippets for them, and seeing what we all come out with on the end. Of note this time: Many of us started with Heinlein. There is also a Facebook thread on this based on a tweet I made at 2:00 AM [...]
A Stop by the Booksellers Association
I was lucky enough to be invited to the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association annual meeting in Portland. The people were all very friendly and great lovers of books – mostly owners of independent bookstores, librarians, and publishers. With a few authors here and there. Obviously, the writer in me was tickled pink, Who wouldn’t be [...]







