Finished Gust Front by John Ringo today, finally, and I must admit, I'm getting a little burned out on military SF for now, having gone...

I finally got an answer on my short story "Shell,"which has been languishing in the slush at Intergalactic Medicine Show since Fe...

Well, the WorldCon is in full swing, and I'm not there. Not that I ever had serious plans to go, but it's in Anaheim this year, whic...

I know this will probably get some animal rights folks all het up, but come on, it's cats. They deserve it.

So I decided to start back up with the word counter thingie, except since I'm in the middle of a second draft that is growing quickly (a...

Today is the twentieth anniversary of the event that gave birth to the phrases "going postal" and "disgruntled postal worker...

So I mentioned a couple of weeks ago about Who Wants to Be a Superhero? It's a weird show, a combination of reality tropes and cheesy c...

So I mentioned a while back that I had this idea for a magazine that I would never produce. And then I got a favorable comment about the id...

ArmadilloCon Day 3: I was entirely too bright-eyed on Sunday. I'd expected, from that first panel on Friday, that this would be an ultra...

ArmadilloCon Day 2: Wow, long day. Went to several panels, including one on editing, one on comics, a really fascinating one on small press ...

ArmadilloCon Day 1: So I came down yesterday. Eight hours of driving, sipping Diet Coke and listening to AM radio (the AstroCruiser does not...

This may not interest anyone, but once again, it helps me to write it out. The novel rewrite is proceeding. I'm done with Act I. I don...

The first act, second draft is finished. Much of the rewriting was done on the Mobile Command Center (aka my New Toy ) . So now that I'v...

So I'm approaching the end of the first act in the rewrite, nowhere close to the pace I wanted to set, but not bad, considering. The thi...

Went running yesterday. I've been trying to get back into running for over a month. For some reason (probably a mix of infrequent traini...

I said some things in yesterday's post that could be construed as disparaging to the small press and those authors who publish there. Th...

Apologies in advance if this is too long and rambling, but I'm trying to work some things out. In yet another example of the synchronici...

I'm going to take a moment to pimp some Other People's Work, both because it's good stuff, and because doing so could indirectly...

So guess what came in the mail today, one day after Conestoga has ended? That's right. The "Whack a Monkey" T-Shirt. So now he...

Conestoga's over. It was my first convention as an invited guest, and I had a blast. Cons are weird animals, because the first day is al...