Posted on January 31, 2013 24 Comments
Sharon Short made a name for herself as an author of mystery novels — but sometimes an idea comes to you from outside the usual places. In the case of her mainstream novel My One Square Inch of Alaska, that idea came from the northern wilderness… and the 1950s… and a cereal box. Here she […]
Posted on February 5, 2013 37 Comments
The great thing about Sharon Lee and Steve Miller is that they give true value for your reading time. For example, in this post about Necessity’s Child, the latest installment in their celebrate Liaden Universe series, they are not content to give you just a single Big Idea — no, they give you a whole […]
Posted on May 19, 2003 1 Comment
Thanks everyone for the many interesting entries in the contest to win The Rough Guide to the Universe. Here’s how it went: Third Place: “The Universe is a very short poem.” Very clever. And linguistically not incorrect. Second Place: “The Universe is ribbed for your pleasure.” This one cracks me up because, aside from comparing […]
Posted on August 5, 2003
I’m giving a quick shoutout and mad props to my literary homey Sharon Short, whose first novel Death of a Domestic Diva just came out. Sharon’s a fellow Dayton Daily News freelancer; she writes a weekly humor column for them (as do I, except it’s cleverly disguised as DVD reviews). Diva’s a mystery novel that […]
Posted on July 26, 2004 1 Comment
I just got sent my Noreascon panel appearance schedule, and let me just say: Holy buckets, am I on a lot of panels. I’ve got eight of them, plus a reading. This is a bit of an upgrade from last year, in which I was on two panels and had a reading. So if you […]
Posted on August 27, 2004 1 Comment
The fine folks at Noreascon have been so kind as to publish the final version of the program, along with room numbers and so forth, so please to find below where I will be at Noreascon and when, and with whom: Thursday 1:00 p H310: They Should Make a Movie of That… What SF/F/H short […]
Posted on October 1, 2005 2 Comments
Gaze, if you will, at the Holtzbrink table at the Great Lakes Bookseller Association convention, Tor being a subsidiary of said publishing group (and OMW being visible right there in the middle of the table — although not for long, because someone walked away with that copy not too long afterward). My major involvement with […]
Posted on February 22, 2006 10 Comments
Because you don’t read enough blogs, here are two more for you to go check out. First: SeeLight, the personal blog of writer Claire Light, whom you may remember as a guest blogger here last July. Claire’s FAQ entry is already a classic of the form. Second, The Little Blog of Murder, which is the […]
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