The Writing Life

Podcast interview with me at Buena Vista U! (oh man, I had no idea she was going to use *all* this stuff) Listen in!

I will be one of 8 guest speakers at Dayton’s first Pechu Kucha night held at C{space (20 N. Jefferson St.) in downtown Dayton, OH on Thursday, August 27th (that’s next Thursday!). Doors open at 6:30 pm for mingling. Program starts at 7:20 (if you’re just coming for me… (oohhhh, imagine that!!) I’m currently on

For serious.

…when just *one* reader “gets” a story. I’m not sure this makes me a very marketable writer. I think we are far too in love with being mass-loved. I don’t write the sorts of stories that get me mass love. I write about machete-wielding matriarchs. It does make me wonder, tho, what all of us

I worry these days that my writing isn’t as good as it used to be, because all the choices I make seem to be poor ones. I’ll go through a story or a scene and realize that what I chose during the first pass was totally inappropriate. I keep thinking I’ve lost touch with the

These will have proper homes on my web page, but here’s what we’re looking at now:The Women of Our Occupation (with sound effects)

Me, Steph, J. and The Old Man went out to dinner last night to celebrate The Old Man winning a shiny Fellowship that will make it possible for him and Steph to eat come January. Talk inevitably turned to Jim Butcher’s new book. J. and The Old Man are big fans of Butcher. “Are you

For better or worse, I won’t be able to make it this year. I owe bunches of taxes this year and I needed to put my book checks toward furniture, heat, and a car. So, no Wiscon. Next year, tho, I’ll be peddling a pretty sweet-ass little book. So I think attendance is mandatory.