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...
SH open to subs
Happy new year, all! The Strange Horizons fiction department has, of course, reopened to submissions. We've had eight so far...
Donations
I just did my end-of-year donations, at the last minute as usual, via websites as usual. In case anyone's interested,...
Technical Virgin
On an extremely silly note, check out TechnicalVirgin.com, "offering alternatives to today's teens." But not if you're at work. It's...
Race, orientation, civil rights
Ellie showed me an interesting "Open Letter to My White Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Sisters and Brothers," by Diane Finnerty,...