I’m looking forward to Readercon this year after I had to skip last year because of a scheduling conflict. It’s one of my hometown cons and they always have the brainiest programming of any science fiction convention I’ve ever been to. “High level of discourse” would be the way to put it… but with a…
Okay, folks, the time has come! At end of day on April 17th we will be closing the ordering portal on SILK THREADS! So you have until then to purchase paperback or download ebook via: http://silk-threads.backerkit.com I’m doing on e last push to try to get some more orders before we close down fulfillment because…
I’m on my way in a matter of hours to Portland, Oregon, for AWP. For those who don’t know it, AWP is the “Association of Writing Programs” (i.e. MFA programs) and their conference is a massive, massive writers conference of epic proportions. I’ll be speaking on a Thursday afternoon panel on “Hybrid Sex Writing” with…
Writing the Other: Conflict and Inclusion ICFA 40 Panel with JR Richard, Keffy Kehrli, Usman Malik, K. Tempest Bradford, Nisi Shawl This panel did not have a description in the online schedule, but I marked it of obvious interest to me! What follows in this post is my attempt to capture what was said. I…
I’m in Orlando for the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA, pronounced “ick-fah”) where today the guest of honor, G. Willow Wilson, gave a terrific keynote speech at the luncheon in which she talked about how it is that some writers (particularly marginalized writers) get labeled “political” while others (of the most…
Folks, it’s the last day of the SILK THREADS Kickstarter and it’s been such a whirlwind that I am only getting around to making this post now. The first draft I made was on the first day, but things have been changing so fast and growing so quickly, every time I came here to edit…
I’m going to be doing a heap of panels, two formal autograph sessions, and I’m throwing a Circlet Press Tea Party with special guest, Laura Antoniou. All the details, in chronological order: Ordinary People Format: Panel 16 Aug 2018, Thursday 4pm, 210F (San Jose Convention Center) with Cecilia Tan (M), Nick Mamatas, Christine Taylor-Butler, Rosemary…
Reporters looking for hot takes about bigfoot erotica keep reaching me on email and twitter, because of what happened on social media over the weekend regarding two candidates in a race for a Virginia congressional seat. Short version: the democrat, Leslie Cockburn (I am not making these names up, I swear) accused the republican, Denver…
We’re getting close to the date of the Daron’s Guitar Chronicles fan meetup for 2018! I’m coming to the Bay Area for the World Science Fiction Convention, and I’m coming out a day or two early so we can have the meetup before the con gets going! Right now the plan is for the meetup…
Since the book that was originally slated to be released in May 2018 has been pushed back, I figured I would fill the gap by self-publishing a book I originally wrote ten years ago for now-defunct Ravenous Romance. MIND GAMES was the first real Romance Novel I wrote, and the reviews and immense positive reactions…
