The con must go on. This weekend, instead of heading up to Madison, Wisconsin, I sat in front of my computer to watch panels and presentatio...

First of all, good luck to anyone participating in National Novel Writing Month! I've already written over 55,000 words in my current wo...

If September hath thirty days, then save the first Wednesday for the Insecure Writer's Support Group. Check out their website or Faceb...

We were out of town this weekend, so I didn't have time to prepare my usual blog posts for the week. Instead, I'll share photos from...

Normally I would be posting my WisCon schedule this time of May, but for multiple reasons, I'm not attending this year. (I could theoret...

This has been one of the quieter cons for me. Some of the friends we used to meet every year no longer come to WisCon, and I didn’t connect ...

It's Sunday afternoon as I write this. There's still quite a few events left in the convention, but I think by this point my partici...

I had four writing goals for the month of September: 1. Get to 30,000 words in Fifth Season . 2. Outline the current draft of Chaos Seaso...

It still doesn't seem like a Wednesday to me. How about you? My first WisCon was in 1998. Since I missed 2007, I've been to sevent...

It's hard to believe this was my fifteenth WisCon. As always, it passed much too fast, and I was torn in several different directions. H...

We're at the halfway point of the A-Z Challenge! Congrats to those who are still participating. For those who had to drop out for variou...

Two of my favorite types of flowers are lilacs and lilies of the valley. I love their scents, and the fact that they only bloom around here ...

Some traditions are too sacred for anything, even National Novel Writing Month, to interfere. One of them is Faux Thanksgiving, our annual g...

A recent guest post on Writer Beware® Blogs! reminded me of something I'd meant to do earlier this year after finishing Across Two Univ...

Well, another WisCon has come and gone. As you can tell, I was so busy I didn't get any blogging done at the con. I'll try to recap ...

and I'm not talking about Christmas, but WisCon ! WisCon is the world's leading feminist science fiction convention (yes, men are st...

Every year in October or November, Eugene and I go up to Madison to have a Faux Thanksgiving with our college friends. It's a real Thank...

Last Thursday, after Date Day, it was back to work for me. But I didn't have to go into the lab; instead, I was Madison-bound. My missio...

It's feast or famine around here when it comes to my blog. After going through a dry spell when I didn't have anything interesting g...