Serendib Writing

Just watched the first episode of Picard; I liked it quite a bit, but keep in mind that my heart belongs to Star Trek, so it is hard for me to think critically about it. And Jean-Luc just makes me smile; it’s a sheer joy seeing him on screen again. And I rather adore his […]

Hey, Chicago SF/F folks. The SLF’s next Deep Dish reading is on Saturday March 14th — we’re trying a weekend reading! We have most of our line-up, including featured reader Sue Burke, but have room for 1-2 more featured readers — these are typically authors who have a book coming out soon, or have had one

That feeling when your little baby nonprofit is applying for its first grant, and you meant to get everything done in good time, but were waylaid by a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad cold, not to mention alarums and excursions at the children’s school necessitating many serious conversations and a whole lot of extra

A Pakistani SF writer just contacted me to ask for professional help with something, and he’s someone I’ve met in person before, and he called me Aunty, and I just MELTED. That’s a powerful word, people. #serendibwriting

We are having serious naming difficulties for this comic. So we want a name that exemplifies the comic and is available as a URL (that is ideally easy to say, remember, and type). The basic setting of the comic is Adventure Town — a village of retired adventurers, who are sort of like a tourist

I’ve started working on the writing thing that I’ve been avoidant about for weeks and weeks and I don’t know why I was avoidant OR why I’ve finally started. (Maybe I just ran out of plausible ways to procrastinate?) It seemed much bigger than it actually was, PER USUAL. But even if it were actually

So, this is pretty exciting news. I’m going to be featured in this book, _Little America_, coming out March 17th. (Just two weeks after my Sri Lankan cookbook comes out, coincidentally enough.) Subtitle: “Incredible True Stories of Immigrants in America.” It was a LONG process getting here. First they contacted me. Then they did hours

Sigh — I just went to apply for some grants, and realized that at some point in the last few months, they’d changed their deadlines. Which is fine, but is a reminder that I need to probably check this sort of thing monthly or so, given how arts organizations are. And I say this as

Eep, I just counted on Wikipedia, and Feast takes me to 17 books. If you add in the 3 literary magazines, that makes 20 book-length-plus publications. I mean, it’s not Asimov levels, but not bad, Mary Anne. I even still like them all, at least somewhat. 🙂 #serendibwriting