I’ve been rewatching Discovery in preparation for season 3, which started yesterday (no spoilers, please). It’s good research for my own space opera too. I just finished 15 episodes of season 1, and it really was very satisfying. I had quite a few concerns in the first episodes, but they resolved most of them pretty […]
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Here’s a weird little COVID-cost. You know my cookbook launched in March, which was pretty much the worst possible timing for a pandemic book launch? We ended up cancelling many, many events scheduled for spring and summer, and in fact, completely lost March / April for promotion due to being overwhelmed with pandemic stuff: switching
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I’m a little groggy today because Kavi woke me up in the middle of the night, crying because she couldn’t sleep and she was so worried about school. Poor munchkin. She’s been coping pretty well with remote so far, but Kavi lost track of time yesterday, when she was supposed to be catching up on
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Here’s a really fun interview I did with Minal Hajratwala at the very start of the Portolan Project — we talk about attending Clarion, about South Asian SF/F, and much, much more. At this stage, I wasn’t set up for video yet, so it’s just audio, which you can listen to or read! “South Asian
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The SLF’s Bay Area chapter did a panel discussion on “grants for speculative fiction authors,” that I participated in. Great conversation that I think would potentially be helpful to many writers.
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Spent three hours (!) yesterday recording another podcast episode with my co-host Benjamin Rosenbaum and perennial guest Jed Hartman. We’re getting ready to launch a Kickstarter VERY SHORTLY — I think on the 15th, if I can get everything together in time. It’s exciting! Also a bit nerve-wracking. We’ve recorded a full season, at least,
Heading into a work meeting for “Assuming You Survive,” the comic I’m writing with Margaret Treanor Frey. This is Ari, Sita’s son; I love the way Margaret shows how energetic he is in this panel. I’m pretty sure I have some friends with similar kids who can relate. Sometimes I think about this comic as
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I was excited to attend Tasveer literary festival in Seattle, but they’ve had to go virtual this year. The plus side to that is that it’ll be much easier for all of you to attend, especially since it’s free! I’ll be on a panel about South Asians writing SF/F, which is going to be super
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Okay, here’s a question for all the Expanse fans out there. Do you think the economy of Earth makes sense? They have it set up that in the future, most of the planet is on ‘basic,’ as in basic income — their needs are taken care of. Fine, good. But they also seem to take
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Feeling grateful for time zones — I had a set of pitches for a sekrit project due at 6 p.m., which I finally finished and sent in at 7:52…but it was due at 6 p.m. PACIFIC time, so I made my deadline. Whew! I feel like I deserve some kind of reward for putting in
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