Traveling and living in space will pose a variety of technical challenges, but there are plenty of other social challenges that space will p...

My family and I saw Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 3 , last weekend. While the scenes with animal experimentation were disturbing, overall ...

If you're interested in worldbuilding for science fiction, then you know food is an important part of that. How a society produces and p...

I started listening to The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe podcast a few months ago. I'd read the book with the same name and thoug...

Anyone who's watched any science fiction TV show or movie has probably noticed how human-like aliens are. Of course, this is because hum...

Welcome to March! Let's hope this month isn't quite as mad as last year. The first post of the month is always for the Insecure Writ...

The year isn't halfway over, but I'm sure most of us are ready to see it go. Between the COVID-19 pandemic, massive job loss, police...

Although I don't spend a lot of time watching TV, occasionally I'm able to squeeze in some time around dinner when I'm crochetin...

Since I sent in the reprint contract last week, I can officially announce that my short story "Specimen 1842," originally printed ...

The day before Halloween might be a good time to talk about witches, vampires, and mummies, but life has horrors that are far worse. Mike Pe...

I subscribe to one of Book Riot's newsletters. A couple of weeks ago, they linked to an essay discussing " lifeboat thinking ,...

DISTAFF: NOUN A staff used in spinning. Of women and women’s work. An anthology of women’s stories woven through time and space. ...

For the last week of Pride Month, here are a few LGBTQIA authors to support. I know some of them; others I've met at conventions. Many o...

I've been sitting on this news for a couple of weeks, but now that the contract has been signed, I can officially make an announcement. ...

I'm currently reading an omnibus edition of Samuel R. Delany's work. He's one of the authors I always intended to read, so when ...

When most people think of biodiversity, they think of saving the species we already have. While that's important, there are other ways t...

Last week, I got to be part of a project on science fiction. A friend of mine has a son who was preparing a report on the subject, and since...

Although listening to audiobooks feels much slower than reading, I like listening to lectures through my Audible account. I just started lis...

One of my former blogging buddies had her YA science fiction book re-released recently. Here's some information about it: When a gr...

Networking is a beautiful thing. Thanks to a self-publishing mailing list that I belong to, I was able to join a major science fiction/fan...