2023: A Big Year
2023 is a year of Big Anniversaries—those ending in 0 or 5—marking significant life events for me and Kelley. Here are a round dozen of them.
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Gorgeous Kelley
A gorgeous new headshot of the gorgeous Kelley Eskridge
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Wednesday October 13, 7 pm: Les Bailey Writers Series, Saint Martin’s University
If you’re in or near Lacey WA on Wednesday 13 October, come and hear me in conversation with Kelley Eskridge talking about using fiction to change the world.
Read moreHappy Birthday to Kelley
Today is Kelley’s birthday. Once again I feel so glad we met and that she took a chance on me. She is…
Read moreIndivisible—except by 3 and 11
Indivisible—except by 3 and 11. Thirty-three years ago today I met Kelley. It was a scorching hot today—just like today…
Read moreLove and isolation: 31 years ago
I moved to the US to be with Kelley exactly 31 years ago. Life then felt weirdly similar to pandemic life today.
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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 more30 years in the US
Today is the 30th anniversary of me moving to this country to live with Kelley.
Read moreOtherLife debuts San Diego on Thursday!
Kelley’s film OtherLife debts Thursday 5th October, 8:00 pm, at the San Diego Film Festival.
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Join me and Kelley in San Diego Oct 5 for North American premiere of OtherLife
On Thursday Oct 5 at 8:00 pm, Kelley’s beautiful SF movie, OtherLife, has its North American premiere at the San Diego International Film Festival. We’ll be there, and we want as many people as humanly possible to be there with us.
Read more29 years ago
Exactly 29 years ago, on a hot summer day in East Lansing, on the first day of the Clarion Writers Workshop, I…
Read more28th Anniversary
Today is the 28th anniversary of the day I met and fell in love with Kelley at the Clarion Writers’ Workshop. And the first anniversary of marriage equality.anniv
Read moreFour-word love story
In honour of Valentine’s Day: the short version of how meeting Kelley changed everything.
Read moreMy music in one easy-to-listen-to playlist
Here’s a playlist of the nine songs included in the CD inside And Now We Are Going to Have a Party.
Read moreReadercon 2015, July 9-12
If you’re wondering what to do July 9-12, wonder no more. Come to Readercon in Burlington, Massachusetts. I’ll be the Guest of…
Read moreCoode Street podcast–Kelley and I talk about stuff
Last night Kelley and I had a lovely intercontinental chat via Skype with Jonathan Strahan and Gary Wolfe, in Seattle, Perth, and…
Read moreTwo wedding rings
Kelley and I got married on Wednesday, 4th September, the 20th anniversary of our first wedding. This wedding was very simple, very…
Read moreHow to get sponsors for the Clarion West Write-a-thon
This year, like last, I’m involved on the organisational periphery of Clarion West’s Write-a-thon: a fundraiser that not only brings in money…
Read moreWestercon 66 schedule
For those planning to be at Westercon 66 in Sacramento over July 4th weekend, here’s my schedule: Thursday 7/4 5:45 pm Joint reading…
Read moreMy night at the Lammys
On Monday Kelley and I were at the big queer lit bash known as the Lambda Literary Awards. I was there to…
Read moreMarriage equality hearings at the Supreme Court
Tomorrow the Supreme Court hears arguments in Hollingsworth v. Perry, the Proposition 8 case regarding the legality of same-sex marriage in California. On…
Read moreSome women can see a hundred million colours
We saw this cloud right around noon on Wednesday. Those amazing colours lasted only a few minutes. It was basically a cloud-shaped…
Read moreKelley, Ray Bradbury, and Nature
FIRST of all, Kelley has written a most marvellous and heartfelt piece about the necessity of finding everyday magic to write: …But…
Read moreWays writers benefit from Clarion West’s Write-a-thon
Clarion West (CW), the best speculative fiction writing workshop in the world, is gearing up for another six-week workshop, in which eighteen…
Read moreReading distinguishes us from other animals
At the end of December the Guardian ran a story about reading and empathy: Psychologists from Washington University used brain scans to…
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