Murine
Only a couple of hours ago, I was thinking how nice it was that I didn't have an infestation of...
Author Archive
MLK Day, belatedly, plus military aphrodisiac
I did spend a certain amount of time on MLK Day thinking about race and Martin Luther King and change...
Panix.com domainjacked
Someone has hijacked the panix.com domain name in such a way that all mail to panix.com addresses is being redirected...
Quasi-reviews: True Notebooks, Curious Incident, Stable Strategies
I recently finished reading Mark Salzman's True Notebooks, which Barbara E loaned me at Xmastime. Salzman is a bestselling author...
Assorted natter
And then somehow five days slipped by without an entry. Not sure what happened there. Been reading lots of submissions,...
Items: Authorial 3 (plus natter)
I had a remarkably good week, both for reasons previously mentioned (such as the reprint sale) and reasons I won't...
Creative nonfiction
Mary Anne's been telling me about creative nonfiction for a while now, but I misunderstood what the term meant for...
Items: Authorial again
Still more items having to do (however indirectly) with authors and/or authorship: R. I. P. Will Eisner. I suspect everyone...
Nebula preliminary ballot!
SFWA has announced the 2004 preliminary Nebula ballot. I'm pleased at various items on it, but particularly pleased to see...
Items: reading, writing, art
Very loosely themed collection this time: R.I.P. Frank Kelly Freas, who died yesterday morning at age 82. He was renowned...
Only in silence
At the beginning of A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin wrote an epigraph: Only in silence the word, only...
Joy
A couple weeks ago, an old friend asked those of us who were gathered for dinner something like "What in...