Relevance without trendfucking
a manifesto
UK (and Europe?) Deal of the Day!
Hey, folks. Well, I’ve been traveling, and having more fun while traveling than intended, as I have a terrible head cold and also we got to spend an extra...
Hypervigilance is bullshit.
Oi. Maybe it’s the holiday season, and maybe it’s who-knows-what, but I am writing just to complain about PTSD and the fact that apparently my brain is in...
Self-care rather than self-discipline
Hello friends, and happy holiday season. I’m coming to you from a very cozy little Airbnb above a cactus shop (!) in Minneapolis, and if I weren’t taking a...
New York Public Library 2019 Best Books list!
Not to bury the lede: it includes Ancestral Night. This is a career first for me, and I’m thrilled. In other White Space news, I’ve got confirmation from Joe...
Obligatory eligibility post thing, also some reviews
Hey, folks! It’s time for that obligatory end of year post where I tell you what I published this year, in the hopes that if you read it and like it you...
Coping with success
It isn’t always easy. Good things (and the demands and attention they bring) can be as anxiety-producing as failures. Especially for those of us with...
I come to you with new stories
Some more stories one could read online, were one so moved! “Perfect Gun,” a reprint currently available at Clarkesworld. It’s about a boy and his war...
A Sunday afternoon ramble
Howdy, folks! So here I am trying to put my life and routine back together after Worldcon; 2 months of being sick with flu and bronchitis and asthma; and...
Things are on sale!
Hey, folks! I’ve been a bit remiss in newslettering for a bit, and I apologize: I had the flu, and it turned into bronchitis, and TMI but I’m pretty sure...
Subject position. Object position.
Stories are like sentences: when they are about us, we can be the subject of them, or the object of them. And it presents a very different experience to...
Thank you, Lt. Col Petrov.
Today is Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov Saves The World Day, one of my personal holidays. On this day in 1983, Lieutenant Colonel Petrov, duty officer at a...
You're doing it wrong
and that's okay.
Line of direction, a brief tutorial
I’m working on a novella currently, and I just fixed a bit of awkwardness that I realized was a useful primer on what we mean when we say, “Line of...
Don't quit your day job, and other one-size-fits-all advice
As I write this, the publishosphere internets are blowing up about a Medium article by an author who got fairly fantastic advances on her first two deals,...
Check, please.
There are a couple of ways that failing to acknowledge and own our social power and choose to use it mindfully can get us into trouble—accidentally and on...
Working on multiple projects at once
Writer? Juggler? Email answerer? It's hard to know for sure what to put on your Form 1040. Ah, it’s a special kind of joy in the life of a professional...
Library Visit!
I’ll be in beautiful Marion, MA, at the Marion Arts Center at 6 pm on Thursday with the Elizabeth Taber Library crew to hang out, answer questions, and meet...
I know it's weird, but self-punishment doesn't actually lead to growth.
So it turns out that coffee and tea probably don’t dehydrate you; that in reasonable quantities they’re not bad for you unless you’re sensitive to caffeine;...
How not to be a dick to everybody
Make friends and avoid being that person of whom that everybody in the industry says, "Oh, them."
