I've been thinking a lot about John Scalzi's recent post about generations and discrimination. One of the points of his post is tha...

I mentioned in Monday's post that my husband and I saw the Rock Paper Scissors tour featuring Sting and Peter Gabriel on Saturday. We we...

It's time for the July edition of the Insecure Writer's Support Group. Here are the co-hosts for this month: Yolanda Renee Tyrean...

One of the disadvantages of being an indie author is difficulty getting your paper books distributed by physical bookstores. It can be done,...

Yesterday, I read an article called, " The Most Important Question of Your Life ." According to the author, you shouldn't ask ...

I stumbled across this blog post by Patty Jansen on Tuesday, and it got me thinking. It's titled "Why you are the biggest impedim...

Yesterday, one of the science fiction authors (who shall remain nameless) I follow on Facebook posted a mini-rant about how some (presumably...

I started reading Jo Walton's All My Children last week, but after I started it, I put it aside for a couple of days. There was a secti...

Last week on The Passive Voice , there was an excerpt from the article " Paper Chasing " on thepointmag.com about books and book c...

A couple of days ago, Amazon announced a major change to how authors in the Kindle Unlimited program would be compensated. When KU was forme...

Remember my SF Women A-Z series back in April? Well, apparently I'm not the only one with a project to promote women SF authors. Writer/...

I'm a supporting member of this year's Worldcon. My main reason for registering, of course, is to vote for the Hugos. So far I'v...

The title doesn't refer to clothing, but to a writing method of working without a plan, more commonly known as "pantsing," for...

The A-Z Blogging Challenge starts on Wednesday! I'll have to sneak in a few posts about Scattered Seasons during April, but for now I ca...

Last week, a book from one of the authors I follow on Goodreads came out. The announcement said the eBook was available for a “special ...

Yesterday I finished reading The Copernicus Complex: Our Cosmic Significance in a Universe of Planets and Probabilities. Long ago, people us...

I had Monday off, so even though my son was home too, I managed to finish the first set of revisions of Scattered Seasons . (It's with b...