It's Book Hype Week.
We will return you to your irregularly scheduled intermittent newsletters shortly.
B minus 7 days. Also, a virtual Salon.
Hey friends, Just a brief note to remind you that Machine will be out in the US in ebook on October 6 and in hardcover on October 20 (Covid printing issues...
September Book Club
Howdy, fellow pandemic endurers! It's time for the second edition of the Throw Another Bear In The Canoe book club, where we all talk about what we're...
The perfidy of major appliances
It’s becoming increasingly obvious, dear readers, that this is a farce as well as a tragedy that we’re living through. A farce probably written and...
A very cheap audiobook of Ancestral Night!
Does what it says on the box.
Some Russian and a short delay...
Hey, folks, and welcome to the newsletter I’ve been procrastinating on all week! Email is a thing that I tend to put off and put off some more, especially...
You better get it 'cause it's going soon!
Today, for one day only AFAIK, Ancestral Night is a Kindle Daily Deal in the US! (I think it’s USA only; sorry overseas folks; different publishers here and...
Announcing the Throw Another Bear In The Canoe Book Club
Hey, folks! First of all, an acknowledgement: I'm totally borrowing this idea from my friend Stephanie Burgis, author of The Dragon With The Chocolate Heart...
A journal of a journal of a plague year
Hey, friends, So in the past few months, like many other people, I’ve read both Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year and John M. Barry’s The Great...
Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy Table of Contents.
Does what it says on the box. Click on this hot hot cover image to pre-order!
Nostalgia is easy like Monday morning...
Hey, folks, A friend (Hi, Celia) was pointing out yesterday that since a lot of people are still holding on to the idea that the Covid-19 pandemic will be a...
Therapy is work, but it's worth it.
Hey, friends, A couple of folks have dropped me emails and comments recently thanking me for being open (now and in the past) about my diagnosis of bipolar...
There's a joke I love about there being only two kinds of people in the world...
…those that subscribe to false binaries, and all the other kinds. We writers, in general, love to sort ourselves into camps—plotters versus pantsers being...
thank you
Hey, you stuck around. There are some pretty wild allegations flying around right now about my husband and me, and I wanted to address them and say,...
Nobody is the secret master of all publishing.
I’ve heard three different stories lately of people peripherally attached to science fiction publishing setting themselves up as sort of the mayors of tiny...
Now the quiet freakout...
...that the Internet is going to fall on my head for that last post. Oh well. If it does, it does. It only smarts for a few days!
This is an open letter to my friends and acquaintances in the publishing community who have been outed as serial harassers, and to the ones who still think they're getting away with something.
Dear friend, Hey there. I know you’re having a rough time right now, and I’m sorry to say you earned it. I wish I had known about your behavior sooner; I...
The longest river
Greetings, friends. As I write this, America’s four year experiment in governance by denial seems at last to be grinding to its inevitable conclusion....
Podcast Sign!
Hey, it’s me on the Intermultiversal Space Podcast with Gareth Jelley, being longwinded about politics, classic science fiction, and generational trauma,...
The nasty bits: shortages, resourcefulness, and keeping yourself well-fed.
Howdy, pandemic buddies, I’m coming to you live from my couch, where I am recuperating after putting in so asparagus and rhubarb plants that I will hopefully...