The Folded Sky UK Cover Reveal!
Hey, everybody, I am thrilled beyond words to bring you the cover for the Gollancz edition of THE FOLDED SKY, available Summer, 2025! Dr. Sunyata Song must...
The Dye in Doritos Can Make Mice Transparent
clears throat The future is guesswork, the past not apparent. The things we all ‘know’ disappear in a tide. The dye in Doritos can make mice transparent. Our...
Autumn is here
And this is how I'm getting my work done this morning. Duncan, Fafhrd, and Gurney like me for my body heat and the snacks I provide.
I am the god who waters the lawn--
—and has filthy fingernails. So last spring, I talked with some nice landscapers about getting our motheaten front lawn patched with loam and seed, and we...
A partial list of things I haven't been doing much of lately
tl;dr I think I need my meds adjusted So a funny thing has happened in the last year or so. I went on and then off a biologic for my psoriatic arthritis (It...
New White Space novel coming Summer 2025
Just look at those colors Dr. Sunyata Song must travel across the Milky Way to learn to communicate with the greatest discovery of her century: an artificial...
Newsletter/Patreon format and WorldCon updates
Hello, folks, Happy Saturday morning, if it's Saturday and morning where you are. I’ve just spent three days on the couch mostly doing nothing but watching...
Into the compost heap of literature.
I’ve been working on White Space IV, which I had to toss out completely and go back and start drafting from scratch, because the damned thing just didn’t...
Readercon schedule and post-Readercon panel at Pandemonium
Hey, folks! I’ll be attending Readercon in Quincy MA from Thursday July 11 through Sunday July 14, where I will be appearing on the following program items....
Clarion Write-A-Thon
Hey folks, This is just to say that I am participating in this year's Clarion Workshop Write-A-Thon and you can pledge (I believe it's tax-deductible) to...
MetaStellar YouTube interviews!
I'm late with this link because of conrunning, but here's Part 1 and Part 2 of an interview I did with the lovely folks at MetaStellar Magazine! Hope you enjoy!
Process is a funny beast
I’ve realized something new about how I work, and it might be useful to other people. I sometimes have a hard time starting or continuing a project because I...
Futurescapes Author Conference Appearance (online)
I'm teaching a course at the Futurescapes author conference May 25-26! Get access to ten different one-hour craft courses taught by ten different authors on...
How to establish a writing habit in five minutes a day.
I shared this on Bluesky with my friend C.L. Polk, who was struggling with being stuck on a story they are working on. It’s very simple, and it works. When...
This is a surprise to me... (discounted ebook edition)
ANd I promise I won’t be sending you emails every day in general—but MACHINE is a Kindle deal today! So if you like space opera and giant bugs and medical...
Li Bai Drowns While Embracing the Moon
Hey, folks. To inaugurate this new space, I bring you a poem from a long time ago, which I’m pretty sure isn’t currently available in its finished form...
Welcome to the Monkey House... I Mean the New Digs
Greetings! This should be the first email from Buttondown, and the continuation of the great Throw Another Bear In The Canoe publishing empire. This is a...
So I Wrote A Sequel To KAREN MEMORY.
Not to bury the lede or anything. Nine years ago, give or take a couple of months, _Karen Memory came into the world and was a surprise hit with just about...
What is this nuance thing, what good is it, and do I even want some?
That’s an excellent question, and I’m here to tell you that the answer is “It depends.” Nuance is not exactly on-trend currently. Social media and the social...
I've been thinking a lot about caracaras.
Caracaras, if you don’t know, are a subfamily of Falconidae (Here’s a Wikipedia link) that fills an ecological niche much more like corvids than like...