WHEW. I was behind on a Wild Cards revision for George — it was almost done, but I had sent it to a few people to check my protagonist’s Mexican American 3rd generation Spanish. I hadn’t implemented their suggestions yet when George’s e-mail popped into my inbox yesterday, and I admit, I got super avoidant […]
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So, I survived a critique of my SF novel, again. Someday I’m going to write a novel that people really love, right? One where I bring it into workshop and everyone says, “This is perfect, ship it!” That would be nice. It’s hard not to feel disheartened after two solid hours of critique. (Maybe I
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In other news, Kavi really wants to read one of my books. Eep. I gave her Perennial, because even though there’s some cancer stuff in there, there’s no explicit sex, I think. I think it’s reasonably 12-year-old appropriate? It’s hard to remember, but I’m pretty sure it just ends with a kiss. (For those new
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Recorded a foodie episode of “Our Opinions Are Correct,” my favorite podcast. Talking about food in SF/F, food in culture, food in my cookbook, etc. Funfun, but now I really am exhausted, and very shortly, I will devour the last of the passionfruit ice cream and put myself to bed.
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I do like it when my normal ‘meeting a writing friend for lunch’ clothes also make me feel like I’m in a fairy tale. This is my glamorous wood elf outfit. 🙂
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You know how you think you’re going to have kids and you’re going to read to them and it’s one of those super-sweet dreams of parenting – but then it turns out that your actual children just want to hear the same terrible picture book twenty kazillion times and after a few years of that,
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Poll: If I were going to edit (and crowdfund) an anthology in the next few years, would you be more interested in it being about : a) futurist visions of motherhood b) South Asian climate change / ecological futurisms ? (I am very interested in both projects, and waffling mightily.)
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Jed was visiting this weekend, just a quick few days. Not long enough, but we’ll take what we can get. The scheduling gets a little complex, and we rarely can manage as much time as we’d like. We’re trying something new which may help — I just got this big wall calendar, so that we can
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Quick note that the SLF’s first Chicago chapter open meeting (all welcome) will be February 16 in Oak Park, refreshments provided. We’re still finalizing time details, but comment here or e-mail Chapter co-head Chris Bauer (chris_bauer@comcast.net) if you’d like to be notified when that’s determined! We’ll be talking about regular meetings, critique groups and workshops,
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You know, per my previous post, I want to like these graphics, made for mental health awareness month, but they rub me a bit the wrong way, I think because of the disorder / illness / suffering framing. I think this is something of an issue with medicine generally, and comes in part from how
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