It’s been a quiet year – mostly – here in Darkest Suburbia, though not without its complications. At any rate, the current ongoing drama in the Twittersphere has me contemplating my Webspaces and doing some long-overdue tinkering (among other things,...
No, I have not been eaten by a grue. In fact, life here in Darkest Suburbia may finally be settling down somewhat (I can actually see most of my office floor now, which was not true for much of last...
It’s time to venture once again from Darkest Suburbia to the spectacle that is OryCon. This year’s schedule has a unique wrinkle: I’ve been tagged as the moderator for all five of the panels I’ve been assigned. I hasten to...
Thanks to the astonishingly kind and forgiving folk on OryCon 39‘s programming staff (you’re better off not knowing the details), I will once again be a busy and active panelist this coming weekend. For the four and a half people...
And so, after a much-too-long hiatus, we return — with, I hope, rather more frequent updating in the weeks and months to come. At the very least, I anticipate regular posts restoring the lyric archive from the old SFF Net...
I sent off some correspondence tonight to a friend who’d asked for a general introduction to the world of fanfiction — and realized, in the process, that my own essay on the subject elsewhere on this site was seriously out...
OryCon begins tomorrow (where did the time go?), and I have an unusually busy schedule for the weekend. (Three panels as moderator? What was I thinking? What were they thinking? Don’t answer that….) Here’s where you’ll find me: Friday, 4...
Reviews are beginning to come in for Spirit of All the Russias, and the response to this point has been decidedly positive. From Long and Short Reviews: “The exquisitely detailed passages in this story made me feel as if I...
The short version first: a Kickstarter has just opened up that I’d like to see succeed. I’ve already signed on; now I hope some of you will, too. Let me tell you the story…. A couple of years ago now,...
The day has arrived! My newest Uncial Press ebook, Spirit of All the Russias, is live. The title page calls it a “novel byte”; in practical terms, it’s a short story published in ebook format. Which means (among other things)...