Election Day Cocktail: Brandy Bramble
A cocktail for watching election returns: lovely warm colour, a good kick, and comforting autumnal warmth.
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Handheld Book Club—Vonda McIntyre’s The Exile Waiting, Tues. 6 Oct 11:30 -12:30 PST
Are you a fan of Vonda McIntyre’s science fiction? Or do you want to know why so many people are? Then please join me, Una McCormack, and Kate Macdonald on Tuesday to talk about Vonda McIntyre’s The Exile Waiting.
Read moreFlowers, cats, birds and bees [photos, video]
This year’s deck flowers were more of a experiment than usual, plus we had a lot more sun than we’re used to and in a different rhythm. The result? A garden full of colour, scent, dogfighting hummingbirds, bees, and a cat.
Read moreSlow River is 25
Slow River is 25. It won awards (Nebula, Lambda Literary etc.), garnered some interesting reviews, and formed a big part of my personal and professional life in SF.
Read moreKitten Report #15: Einstein Houdini Ferociraptors
Charlie and George now team-hunt, and the are a brilliant escape-artiste duo.
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32 Years: A Life
32 years ago today I met Kelley and fell stone in love. That love grows wider, deeper, and more richly textured every day. Along the way we have changed each other, and between us we have made a third thing into which we have put a large part of ourselves: we have made Us.
Read moreClarion West/Fight For Our Lives [video, audio]
Help make Clarion West’s world-beating SFF writer’s workshop accessible for all!
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Self-care in the time of coronavirus
More than 3 months of not going anywhere, doing anything or seeing anybody is getting seriously old. But of course I’ll keep doing it because I do want to actually get old. My mantra for June? Self-care.
Read moreAdventures in homemade hair
Like everyone in Seattle I’ve been reduced to cutting my own hair. My hair needs are simple: cropped close and tidy enough to be able to shampoo, rub it dry with a towel, and leave the house. Except it turns out not to be so simple…
Read moreSO LUCKY is 2: Some thoughts on publishing
Now that So Lucky has been out for two years, I’m revisiting the publishing process, and industry and reader response—and asking for your opinion.
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Kitten Report #14: One year in the big wide world [photo, video]
Today Charlie and George are exactly one year old. They came to us as tiny rescue kitties, the only survivors of a litter of six, but today they are lords of their domain. And for their birthday we gave them a brief adventure in the great outdoors…
Read moreVICE News interview
VICE News interviews me and other writers/filmmakers about the difference between real and fictional pandemics.
Read more30 April: AMMONITE radio bookclub
Ammonite is the inaugural choice of OregonmPublic Broadcasting’s Quarantine Bookclub. Join me on “Think Out Loud” live on Thursday 30th April at noon.
Read moreKitten Report #13: Social distancing
At almost 11 months , Charlie and George struggle to understand shelter-in-place and social distancing.
Read moreVonda McIntyre: One year on
One year ago today, Vonda McIntyre. Now you can buy the newly republished edition of her very first novel, The Exile Waiting.
Read moreAmmonite—”Think Out Loud” bookclub
Thanks to COVID-19 and subsequent stay-at-home orders resulting in a mostly locked-down US, a lot of people have been looking for something to read, and many of them have a new-found interest in global pandemics. There’s been a resurgence of interest in Ammonite, my first novel. Now it’s going to be the subject of Oregon Public Broadcasting’s first read along, then call-in bookclub.
Read moreCOVID-19: Zones of control
COVID-19 is roaring along. We’re in it for the long haul. I cope by only worrying what’s in my zone of control. Here are my strategies.
Read moreGood books for hard times
Good books for hard times: these are the books I turn to when I’m ill or stressed. They are books to get lost in: comfort reads.
Read moreThe perfect audio for International Women’s Day
You can self-isolate and celebrate International Women’s Day and feel smug and timely by listening to Ammonite, a novel about a world…
Read moreCOVID-19: Numbers game
If you look at the apparent case fatality rate for COVID-19 right here in King County, it’s an eyebrow-raising 18.97% while in South Korea it’s more like 0.65%. Here’s why neither are useful numbers.
Read moreCOVID-19: Now what?
King County, WA is a new epicentre of COVID-19 cases. Here are the precautions I’m taking.
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Pre-order Ammonite audiobook
The audiobook of Ammonite is out March 3. Pre-orders are open now!
Read moreWordgathering interview
A new interview with me is up at Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature. Lots of stuff about So Lucky and disability, of course, but also much about my work in general.
Read moreCOVID-19 update
Here are some facts & figures on COVD-19, plus some unknowns and some opinions.
Read more2019-nCoV, the novel coronavirus: an update
2019-nCoV, or the Wuhan coronavirus, is doing what viruses do and merrily replicating. Here’s a look at the numbers. Followed by a wildly unscientific speculation about the end of the world. Enjoy!
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