How To Survive A Literary Life
Hey folks, Here's a link to a zoom talk I gave on dealing with the pressures of being an artist in public in the current era. I hope you enjoy and please...
June Book Club
Well, I actually seem to have read a lot of things this month, even if several of them are my own work that I'm reviewing! In addition to that, however, I...
Horse Stories 9
Ormr had a busy last weekend! And hasn’t done much this week, because it’s much too hot to make him work right now. The stall toys appear to be keeping him...
NEW STORY DAY
Hey folks! Catch up on the latest adventure of Auga Hacksilver, long-suffering bisexual Viking sorcerer, and his history of poor relationship choices, here....
Horse Stories 8
Well, it's been an interesting week, whereby interesting I mean challenging, but we're all still here and our heads are above water. I am not sure I'll be...
Horse Stories 7
Summer is here with a vengeance, quite suddenly. It was 40 degrees last weekend. Today, it is over 90. The horse is in his barn, and my exercise for today...
What we've been doing around here...
Dinner is cooking. It's chicken and rice with root vegetables and a Greekish dill yogurt sauce. I have spent most of the day working on White Space #3, The...
Horse Stories 6
Last Thursday, when we had our riding lesson, we did a very ridiculous thing, which involved trotting around poles, moving traffic cones from one pole to...
May Book Club
I finished The Stand. Honestly, I kind of feel like that’s enough for one month. But! I also reread (re-listened?) Stephen Brusatte’s podcast-ish The Rise...
Horse Stories 5
I'm writing this on Thursday, May 20th and will send it out next week. Ormr is on a diet, and he's not too pleased about it. You will notice that there are...
THE RED MOTHER cover
Art by Greg Manchess. Edited by Jonathan Strahan. Coming next month from Tor.com.
The Red Mother cover reveal tomorrow
If you like: -Sarcastic queer disaster Vikings -dubious ponies -riddles -kinship duty -poor life choices This one's for you. Cover reveal tomorrow! Story...
Protagonist syndrome: what it means to you.
Hey, folks, So we’re still working our way through Breaking Bad and also Life. (Scott has watched Breaking Bad before and liked it; I watched Life before and...
Lilac Syrup (and) short fiction print publication news.
Hey, folks, I made a duck for my Mom’s birthday, so the cats got braised duck innards for lunch, and they think this is a very fine thing and should possibly...
Machine Paperbacks (and) Horse Stories 4
Hey folks, Just wanted to let you know that the UK paperback of Machine will be out on Thursday, May 27th. I just got my author copies this week and it looks...
Horse Stories 3
Hey folks, So yesterday, I rode Ormr, which was actually the first time I've ridden him since LAST Thursday, though I was over at the barn Saturday, Sunday,...
Adventures with cats
Molly: I am on the armoire! Pet me, pet me, pet me! Me: **Pets, dutifully.** Molly: **Purrs and wiggles and purrs until she accidentally steps off into thin...
un/conscious in/competence
What if you don't even know what you need to learn in order to improve?
Horse Stories 2
I'm writing this on April 29; I'm going to send it out Monday May 3, but when I say "today" and "yesterday," I mean Thursday and Wednesday, respectively....
What to expect when you're coping with the unexpected
Congratulations, everybody. We’ve gotten to a point where we can maybe see the first tickle of the end of the crisis. Or maybe, to be more precise, the...