Present tense is an abomination. Mostly.
Over at Sterling Editing we have our usual links of interest to emerging writers. This week I think my favourite is Moonrat’s…
Read moreMonth: July 2010
Live in LA? Want access to private queer writers’ evening in return for one airport pickup on Sunday Aug 8th?
On Tuesday, 10th August the faculty of the LLF Emerging Voices Retreat (me, Ellery Washington, Ellen Bass) are doing a special reading…
Read moreSucker Punch
Ah, I’d like to watch this right now. I’m just in the mood. Music and action from Zack Snyder, the director of…
Read moreThe people I’ll be teaching next month
Next month I’ll be leading a week-long fiction workshop for the Lambda Literary Foundation’s Emerging Voices Retreat. Here are the people I’ll…
Read moreHealth update
Because, y’know, news about one woman’s mild summer virus is vital to the nation’s well-being. Or so you’d think judging by the…
Read morePitiful and needing Kindle suggestions
Somehow in the last two or three days I have acquired one of those vile throat viruses that make me feel as…
Read moreWall Street Journal reviews "It Takes Two"
Well, okay, they (in the form of Martin Morse Wooster) actually review Dozois’ Year’s Best SF, but they talk about me: Most…
Read moreIn which I learn sabre
Yesterday, I got schooled by an expert sabreuse. I’m still blinking. I’ve always loved the notion of fencing, but when I was…
Read moreThis weekend
This weekend I’ll be busy going to parties and building a workshop, so I won’t be around much. To keep you amused,…
Read moreArgentina gets it, Brazil is having fun, and the US…
Argentina just made same-sex marriage legal. The Brazilians are having a blast (watch this video of Rodrigo and Gustavo dancing the tango–via…
Read moreBusy busy busy
Lots to do today so I’m away from the keyboard. Have fun in the sun. Eat something fresh and luscious. Read something…
Read moreBookcase lust
Photo: Pasi Aalto / pasiaalto.com The Victoria & Albert Museum in London is running 1:1 Architects Build Small Spaces, including The Ark,…
Read moreP.D. James, on writing
P.D. James (courtesy of the Telegraph) says it all, beautifully: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/template/utils/ooyala/telegraph_player.swf I’d expand on her notion of sensitivity to words: a writer…
Read moreBeautiful things
A few days ago I read that an Italian scholar thinks he’s found a new Michelangelo sculpture–that is, rediscovered an old one….
Read moreCoffee cans and solder: one solution
We have terrible cell reception at our house: bottom of a hill, edge of a ravine. It’s just not happening. So I…
Read moreRandom garden fact
The scent of jasmine from Gardenia jasminoides is as strong as Valium (thanks, Cindy). And, although you wouldn’t think Gardenia would grow…
Read moreNoam Chomsky was wrong (and other science-of-writing tidbits)
If researchers at Northumbria University are right, Noam Chomsky was wrong when he declared that everyone in a linguistic community shares the…
Read moreThe future of queer publishing
Over at LambdaLiterary there are four video clips of a recent panel held in West Hollywood, The Future of Queer Publishing. The…
Read moreThe green, green things of home…
I promised some time ago to post photos of the garden. (Waving to Maureen.) Today has been the first sunny day, so…
Read moreYear’s Best
Releasing today, and completing this year’s I’m-not-on-the-cover trifecta, Gardner Dozois’s The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenety-seventh annual collection. Here’s the PW blurb:…
Read moreFruit, fruit, more fruit–and c-r-e-a-m….
I spent most of yesterday eating. Nectarines, cherries, raspberries, all with lashings of thick thick thick fresh fresh fresh cream. I just…
Read moreHappy weekend
I have Hild to attend to, and a whole stack of True Blood Season 2 DVDs to watch, so I won’t be…
Read moreMostly trundling along
Not a massive amount to report today. The weather is really sucking, but that’s (mostly) fine with me. I’m working like a…
Read moreGood sex: a rant
I read a review of “It Takes Two” yesterday (by someone I don’t know called Ryan), which runs, in part: I liked the…
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