I was on an airplane when I first tripped over the movie “Mamma Mia” a few years ago. I must have startled (and probably scared) my fellow passenger by basically…Continue readingWhen we were young again
There is science fiction and there is fantasy, and never the twain shall meet. At least, that is the silly notion adopted by so many SF writers, readers and reviewers.…Continue readingFantasy or SF? You decide
A book-oriented email I get regularly features “The Writer’s Life”, interviews with authors which includes a Q&A. I think the standardized Q’s are interesting and for a lark decided to…Continue readingMy A’s to an interview Q’s
I was astonished and utterly delighted to discover that my nearly-20-year-old novel “The Secrets of Jin-Shei” still has wings – it has been picked as the read-along book by Matthew,…Continue readingA well-loved book
Moments n fiction and in life A life is made of moments. It is stitched together from the things you remember most vividly — the peaks and the valleys, the…Continue readingMoments
I live in a house of books. My husband is a bibliophile. So am I. The cumulative effect is catastrophic. He had HIS books, I had MY books, and when…Continue readingBOOOOOOOOKS!!!
At warp speed When I wrote the novel “Spellspam“, the second in my Worldweavers series, I was sure that the playful term which I had invented to describe spam which…Continue readingInvented any words lately?
There are times my subconscious almost scares me. Waking into a new day, I linger for a moment on the shores of the dream sea before I come back to…Continue readingHardhat Zone: Novel in Progress
A marvelous writer, Steven Barnes, recently wrote about a book that changed his life, and that inspired me to do the same. But I can’t possibly pick just one, I…Continue readingLife-changing books
Taking her with me into the shadows of my dreams While I was updating my Le Guin collection with the Hainish books I lacked, in preparation for my Big Re-Read…Continue readingRe-reading Ursula