Serendib Writing

Updating my c.v. this morning, because I’m going up for hopeful promotion this year. I really should’ve done it last year, but the pandemic intervened, ah well. I’m currently Clinical Associate Professor; this would be going up to Clinical Full. (To clarify: I’m not on the tenure-track, but UIC has this rarely used Clinical position,

While I’m announcing things, I think I may not have announced that I’m thrilled that Jed Hartman’s Constellation Press will be bringing out a collection of my Jump Space stories next year. Working title: “Jump Space”, because titling is hard. I admit, it does feel a little odd announcing it as a publication, given that

It looks like I’ll have a picture book coming out in fall 2021, which is exciting. More details when the press is ready to announce, but I’m just delighted. And I think it’ll even come out while my niece Savreen is still of an age to enjoy it, which is particularly pleasing. It’s about a

I was feeling the need for comfort reading yesterday, but I wanted something new, and Martha Wells didn’t have another Murderbot book out yet, and I’ve read all her Raksura books, so I decided to go back and try her first series. The first book is “The Element of Fire”. She did something a little

Oh, hey, I seem to have started work on a novel again after months away. Go, me.

Gah — I just cut 16,000 words from my novel, which really feels like going backwards. It’s not, because I cut them to put them into book 2; I think I was rushing book 1 a lot, and this will be better. But it’s still unnerving to go from 49,000 words to 33,000 words. Eep.

Quick note that if you read Sandhya Menon’s “When Dimple Met Rishi,” it’s now on Netflix as “Mismatched”. Subtitled for those of us who need the English. Very cute.