Category: News update
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Love letters, love songs and now other songs too!
Late Breaking News Thanks to a rambly facebook conversation you may also ask me to record one of my existing songs for $20. This is utterly terrifying, but that’s what experimental playing fields like the Write-a-thon are for. Jenny Mason has sponsored the Phone Song. In other news Day 1 has been posted up at…
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Love Letters – discoveries and new website.
Discoveries My love letters to inanimate objects project is in its early days, but this is what I have discovered so far (who knows where the stream will take me next, 6 weeks in length I hope for more mutations and new creative challenges). Several works have been completed and have been sent to their…
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A Study in Flesh and Mind – now up on Daily Science Fiction
Subscribers have had it in their hands for a week, but my story is now available free for everyone on Daily Science Fiction. A Study in Flesh and Mind. The feedback has been really nice thus far and that has warmed all the cockles in my heart. I may have to revisit the Albury-Wodonga Academy…
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Same Sex Marriage – everything to gain
John Scalzi’s reading last night was lovely on multiple levels. Great to hang out with friends, great special surprises, lovely reading and Mr Scalzi is of course adorable, thoughtful, funny and engaging. I particularly enjoyed how he smiled and eyes got all soft and dreamy when mention of his wife crossed his lips. Folks speaking…
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Wiscon Schedule
Wiscon is not very far away at all at all! – Wiscon being a mighty feminist science fiction convention held every year in Wisconsin. This will be my first Wiscon and I am quite excited. I will be doing a reading and two panels. 11up – Writer Readings. Cycles of Life. Salacious, sacrificial, silly, sentimental…
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Mothers Day – in gratitude and in my thoughts
To all my friends and loved ones who have children in their lives. So many amazing women I know have chosen to have children in the last few years and it is wonderful and amazing. In the buildup to mothers day I have been thinking about how much I am grateful for. Smart, active, brilliant…
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Norwescon – Further reading and little L’esprit de l’escalier
Norwescon was lovely, and many of the highlights come from conversations during or because of panels. Fellow speakers and audiences were pretty rawking. During my panels I mentioned further resources and references. Here are just a few resources I mentioned (or wish I had mentioned). Fantastic Fantasy Females with Jean Johnson, Kim Ritchie, J A Pitts…
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Love Letters to Inanimate Objects – Clarion Writeathon
Define a love letter for $20 Head on over to Objects of Love to see new work emerge. It’s not too late to sponsor an object! Clarion Writers Workshop Write-a-Thon runs concurrently with the workshop (June 26 to August 6, 2011) and raises money to help the workshop exist and enable scholarships for new writers.…
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Maia Blue and Anywhere But Earth Update
I’m excited to to see the lineup for Coer De Lion’s anthology Anywhere But Earth. “Maia Blue is Going Home” is a story I’m very fond of and seeing her in the company of good people I know and good people I would like to know makes me very happy indeed. You can see a full…
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Clarion Archive update
The archive now contains: NEW Excerpts from Story Teller at Small Beer Press Snippets of memory and lessons learned from Gordon Van Gelder, Jeff Ford, Kit Reed, Jim Sallis, Cory Doctorow, Gregory Frost and Nancy Kress NEW John Schoffstall (Clarion West 2004) http://st-at-clarion.livejournal.com/ UPDATED Philip Brewer – Clarion 2001 What if you can’t go to Clarion? How to be your own writer’s workshop…