A couple of friends I wanted to meet at WisCon have new books available. I had wanted to see if they were interested in writing guests posts...

Those of you who've been following me for a long time know I'm a big Beatles fan. Beatles fans often have other Beatles fans as frie...

When you've been going to a particular convention for a long time, it becomes a home away from home. Even if you don't speak to othe...

I was planning to blog about free/bargain eBook mailing lists today, but I found out last night (shortly before writing this post), that a f...

Ah, another WisCon has come and gone. They always go by so quickly. Here are a few highlights from the weekend: 1. The hotel: Apparently, ...

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...

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

Every year, there's a convention for Beatles fans in the Chicago area. It used to be called Beatlefest, but they changed the name severa...

Heather Dyer introduced me to the Blog Chain, and Mary Lindsey used to be part of the Blog Chain as well. Today all three of us (plus Eugen...

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...

Eugene and I have an old college friend named Ed. Eugene met Ed first; they bonded over a low score on an Organic Chemistry exam. Ed was the...

I'm a little late on this, but Alex turned one on Friday. At daycare, he got to wear a little crown (I'm not sure how much he liked ...

Lots of writing stuff to post today. First, I'd like to spread the news about a dialogue contest being run on Nathan Bransford's blo...

Or even pining for the fields. ;) I've been juggling the various demands of work, housekeeping, spousekeeping, and, of course, writing. ...