The two highlights of WindyCon were toastmastering for the first time (fun!), and getting to spend time with (Alix) AM Dellamonica and Kelly Robson, who are both just delightful. (And, incidentally, married to each other for 33 years so far…) I’ve recently read one of Kelly’s books, _High Times in the Low Parliament (a lesbian […]
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I thought I’d finished a draft of a Liminal Space pilot earlier this week, but we just had a class reviewing it and I think the 45-minute stopping point (see picture below) is not actually a good stopping point… …so I went and grabbed another whole section (which ends with an EXPLOSION, much better) and
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So I survived my Toastmaster gig at WindyCon! I was pretty nervous, having never done this before, but I think it went reasonably well, especially once the crowd warmed up and started laughing in the right places. By the end, I was having a lot of fun — please feel free to invite me to
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WindyCon starts today! My schedule: FRIDAY: Traveling for Research Friday 16:00 Junior BC It sounds adventuresome and exotic, but traveling to research a project isn’t all wining and dining and touring strange counties. Authors and artists talk about what they really do when they visit distant lands to work out the details of their projects.
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I love this pic of us that Sheree Renée Thomas posted on Twitter, so I snagged it for here. Not sure when it’s from — not World Fantasy, because my hair was a different color…maybe WorldCon?
George R.R. Martin was in town, so Roshani Anandappa and I went into the city to have dinner with him and his assistant Sid Khalsa in Greektown. (Opa!) Fun as always, hanging out with them. (George is one of my editors on the Wild Cards series, in case you’re wondering how I know him. He’s
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Congrats to Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki for his World Fantasy Award for the anthology, The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (2021)!
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Congrats to Usman Mlk for his World Fantasy Award, for his collection Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan. (Accepted by Ahmad Siddiqi.)
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Fabulous and unexpected dinner last night at Maypop in New Orleans. I had: • bread service — annatto sesame rolls with coconut butter and shellfish pepper jam • roasted marrow bone topped with creole lobster bordelaise, served with pickled shallot, herb salad, Steen’s chili vinaigrette, warm roti bread Both delicious. Plus a little cornbready amuse-bouche;
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Closely reading through my own memoir twice within a month or so is, it turns out, too much. I’m a little tired of the sound of my own voice. For Halloween, maybe I will turn into a ghost on the wind and just say “oooooooooooooooo” all day long.
