Raindrops I am curled up in bed, reading against his chest, and I must have made some noise because he asks what’s up. That triggers a flood of words — the book is full of relationship stuff, and it’s good but also making me think about things, and I’m a little frustrated with a friend […]
Quick lit. question — does anyone know if Natasha Pulley identifies as trans? I’m just finishing _The Half Life of Valery K_, and there are a few lines towards the end that indicate the protagonist might be trans. I think I’ve read all of Pulley’s novels at this point, and while the setting of each
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So, there’s an article on Wired about Brandon Sanderson, and there’s a response by Brandon Sanderson, and honestly, there’s more of interest in the response than in the article itself, though the article is getting a ton of commentary. So I’m linking them in that order, and it won’t hurt you to read them in
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This will be fun — I’ve been invited to present at Berkeley as part of a 3-day program about speculative fiction from around the world. I’ll be presenting about South Asian and South Asian diaspora speculative fiction and will lead a discussion about one or two particular short stories (suitable for young adult readers). It’s
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My main goal for this ICFA was to take some time to think through where I’m spending my time. Some aspects are fixed — school board service, teaching. But other things, I put on myself, and maybe it doesn’t make so much sense. I’m going to be making two changes to Patreon going forward: •
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I don’t have any photos from my author reading, but it went well — I read everything I’ve written so far of what I’ve been calling the Patreon story, and people seemed engaged, and laughed at the funny bits, and when I dropped a surprise body in at the end, there was a suitable gasp.
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Thursday late morning, I hosted the BIPOC Coffee with Creatives Author Reading. Really powerful material from Tenea D. Johnson, Agnes Kristina Gomillion, Nisi Shawl, and Lynette James. As one of the audience members said afterwards, I’m not going to forget ANY of those stories. Privilege to be in the room, and a pleasure to host.
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Panel: (Creative) Editing Beyond the Western World — we had a good discussion with myself, Mimi Mondal, and Neil Clarke, even though Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and Cecilia Tan had to join us by Zoom. Cecilia kindly wrote up a brief blog post summarizing some of the discussion: https://blog.ceciliatan.com/archives/4555 The panel was followed by me and
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I had restless dreams last night, probably in part because I’m still coughing (feel mostly better, just a little more tired than usual, but the intermittent phlegmy cough is annoying, I should go see if we have any decongestant). One of them was the standard “I could run a bookstore / cafe” fantasy, which I
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On the first day, Liz Hand had us do some generative exercises centering on description — this is what I came up with. I may have been writing for thirty years or so now, but exercises still help — they take your mind in new directions. ***** Thirteen Hours to Doha, Three Hours to Lahore
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