What's the Word Now?

Tonight (July 31) at midnight PDT is the deadline for voting in the Hugo Awards , which celebrate science fiction and fantasy. I'm short...

For anyone who missed it, I participated in a Mind Meld at SFSignal with a number of other writers and editors, which was published on May 2...

Earlier this year, I was at the library looking for an audiobook to entertain myself during a long drive. To my disappointment, I had alread...

I posted last week about Pseudopod's nominations; this week, I'm sharing what I wrote on the Escape Artists forum about my nominatio...

One of the free podcasts that I regularly listen to, Pseudopod, provides narrations of horror short stories, plus excellent, insightful intr...

Although I've been tweeting links, I haven't mentioned here on my own blog that most of my writing activities lately have been for a...

It's only a month since the 2014 Hugo Awards and the 1939 Retro-Hugos were announced, so at least I'm doing better than last year ...

August has certainly flown fast! I read all of the Hugo Award nominees that I could and voted by the midnight PST July 31/Aug. 1 deadline, a...

Once again, I'm explaining my reactions to the Hugo Awards nominees. It's a ranked vote; sometimes I'm voting in a preferential ...

This year, instead of writing one massive post about all the 2014  Hugo Award nominees, I'm going to write a few smaller pieces. Partly...

A friend of mine reposted the usual Memorial Day image of a uniform with the text that starts off "It is the soldier, not the reporter,...

The Hugo Awards are fan-voted recognitions of the best writing, art, and related work in science fiction. As a member of LoneStarCon3, the 7...

I watched the premiere of "Sleepy Hollow" (LOOSELY based on Washington Irving's story) on Monday and found it entertaining en...

I read Mary Robinette Kowal 's debut novel, "Shades of Milk and Honey," a few years ago when it came out. It's a novel of ...

I just submitted my Hugo ballot, a few minutes before voting closed at midnight CDT on July 31. Because I got my Worldcon membership just tw...

As I mentioned yesterday, I'm swamped with reading Hugo nominees, so I'm too busy to write original material right now. Instead, I...

I had a wonderful, although short, vacation with my family last week. Now I am snowed under again. This time the duty is reading for pleasur...

I was telling my sister about Kings in Disguise , a fine graphic novel that follows a boy as he rides the rails during the Great Depression,...

"Tie a string around your finger." This is an old-fashioned memory prompt from before when memos started arriving via PDAs, compu...

I was in a meeting Tuesday and the guy next to me stumbled over his words, saying something would "compale -- I mean, pale in compariso...