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Flights of Imagination

*I’m sorry this is so disgracefully late. I was a bad, bad, bad writer yesterday and had dinner with one of the occasional readers of this blog who happened to be in town (and who is a friend.) AND THEN this morning had to unload the SUV and then unpack enough boxes to make coffee. So by the time I sat down to write it was 10 am, and I got sidetracked. And now I’m going to unpack boxes as I’m temporarily in possession of an older son to help me move things up and down stairs.*

Lately there ha...

I Can Feel It Coming

Yesterday, late in the day (we had vent cleaners, a process that unexpectedly took something like 7 hours, and I was trying to prevent stupid cats from running out to tangle with coyotes and wild turkeys) I finally sat down to read my compadre’s Dave Freer’s blog post.

It was about many things — okay, it was mostly about manure, because you can take the monkey out of the jungle, but… — but in the middle of it he mentioned something about CNN’s CEO admitting they’re in trouble and saying they...

The Running Of The Fans

Sorry, guys, you know sometimes I wake up not all there. This is a manifestation of that, since I woke up yesterday with this running through my head. And as a day of opening boxes and dealing with vent cleaners looms, I decided to indulge myself. Any of my colleagues borrowed for this exercise were borrowed unwittingly and it’s not really them, but the fan-space version of them. I apologize in advance. (Larry, don’t kill me!) Most of the authors here are Baen or indie, because those are my f...

This, That, The Other

Last day at comicon. I’m going in for only 4 or 5 hours, (which means I’ll actually get home around 2 if that. Traffic is interesting) because it’s our first week sort of in the new house, and there’s tons of little stuff to do. (Mostly unpack, but also unpack, and also minor repairs and adaptations.)

Some things about comicon, first: despite claims these aren’t “our kind of people” by older, more established cons, the fact is that on that very first day, approaching the con (and circling. An...

Cracked

I’m attending Denver Comicon this weekend, at the Wordfire booth, which has a deal with Baen to host Baen’s authors where Baen doesn’t have a booth.

Yesterday was relatively slow, because Friday always is. Relatively slow is still orders of magnitude larger than the old sf/f cons.

Because all program directors are partly prankster gnomes, and because I was QUITE LITERALLY in between two house moves while the programming was being set, and skimmed the emails without reading, I ended up on the...

I AM PRIVILEGED – Sanford Begley

*A PSA before the post: I’m at Denver comicon all day today and certainly tomorrow. If you’re out there, come see me at the Wordfire booth -Sarah *

I AM PRIVILEGED – Sanford Begley

I am privileged. This is true, but not in the way the left thinks. The other day I disagreed on social media with a woman about another program to take from workers and give to parasites. She said that she had been middle class and was now poor and I couldn’t understand because I am privileged. I thought about it a...

A Nebulous and Ancient Notion

First business: I will be at Denver comicon, for sure tomorrow and Saturday (I have very strong doubts I will be able to do it Sunday, considering where I’m starting from in terms of exhaustion.) The family isn’t going because we’re in the middle of three moves (one for us, one for each of the kids.) I wouldn’t go if it weren’t MY job. I’d postpone it till next year. BUT as is, I’ll be there. Come see me at the Wordfire Booth. If I find them, I’ll have souvernir-fishTM to give away. Also, aga...

Writing the Right Characters – By Rhiain

Writing the Right Characters – By Rhiain

Recently, a tiresome bit of pablum has circulated online in various articles by well-meaning individuals, whose main complaint seems to be that it’s not possible for white authors to write novels with “Person of Color” main characters.

The most recent reiteration of this complaint is a June 6 Tor/Forge post by one A.J. Hartley, titled “Writing POC While White”, in which Hartley tries and fails to explain why white writers do a poor job of writing non-w...

On Reading Women

The first author name I remember — my then as now suffering from this peculiarity in which I only remember names of authors I like and only usually after the second book that knocks my socks off (there are exceptions, F. Paul Wilson being one of them. Never forgot his name after reading Hosts.) — is Enid Blyton.

I never read her really young books, Noddy and the like. I suffered from the issues of a kid raised amid adults, in that I skipped picture books altogether. I think I figured out how...

You Ain’t Got No Class

Sorry this is so incredibly late. Some of my reasons are perfectly legitimate. Yesterday I was extensively possessed by Mobia, muse of furniture moving. (Actually there is a method to that madness, since we need to clear passageways for the second wave of movers coming to bring stuff in on Wednesday. Right now passageways are choked with book boxes inexplicably marked for my office and brought to it, instead of downstairs to the library. I was also entering my office by vaulting — at my age!...