
2021 Blog Stats
For the first time in 3 years the number of people visiting my blog increased—by about 11%. Here are the Top 15 new posts and the Top 15 overall.
Read moreFor the first time in 3 years the number of people visiting my blog increased—by about 11%. Here are the Top 15 new posts and the Top 15 overall.
Read moreShort post on blog stats 2019. Long post reviewing the decade to follow in a couple of days.
Read moreI published a little bit more this year, 75 posts vs. 68, and a couple of new pages. The average word count…
Read more2017 was an interesting year: amazing, appalling, exhausting, exhilarating, awful, and astonishing. Sometimes all on the same day.
Read moreI didn’t blog much in 2016: only 59 posts, exactly half as much as 2015. So I had fewer visitors: 64,077, down from 84,620.
Read moreIt’s been a while since I gave you a peek behind the curtain. So here are some relatively arbitrary statistics about this…
Read moreI considered titling this post 2020: The Fuckening. A lot sucked—but it was also a profoundly liberating year for my work.
Read moreIs there such a thing as an “essential self”? If so, can it be warped, encouraged, or destroyed? How far outside the moral and physical boundaries of that essential self would I we be willing to step in order to stay alive? And—if we stepped so far out that we became someone we did not recognise or like—would we still be us? I wrote Slow River to answer those questions.
Read moreSo, the Hild ARCs are here. That is, I only have one right now but hopefully next week I’ll get a boxful….
Read moreOooh, look at this: the Science Fiction Awards Database, put together by Mark Kelly for the Locus Foundation. (Thanks to Cheryl Morgan…
Read moreA couple of days ago, I wrote here about a story in PW in which two children’s authors claimed their agent wouldn’t…
Read moreI’m now just past halfway through my first-pass rewrite of Hild. I’ve already lost more than fifty pages. If you recall the…
Read moreWow. Just read this Technorati ranking for Entertainment/book blogs which I gacked from Joe Sherry over at Adventures in Reading (a fine…
Read moreWow. We launched Sterling Editing yesterday and the response has been fabulous. For one thing, the bounce rate for the website is…
Read moreThis blog is exactly one year old today. Happy Birthday us! To celebrate, I think it’s time to start porting over some…
Read moreFor those who like numbers, this blog is nine months old. This is the 311th blog post. As I type this (on…
Read moreFrom John-Henri: I read your blog entry on literary awards, and your findings seem quite obvious; in a fairly recent essay on…
Read moreFrom: Nicole I finished reading Always a couple of weeks ago. I enjoyed it very much, and my mind is still dwelling…
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