I’ve been on dozens of convention panels discussing the differences between “Plotters” and “Pantsers”. It’s a perennial topic of discussion – what’s the best thing to do when you’re writing…Continue readingAre you a Plotter? Or a Pantser?
Back when I was nineteen years old and steeped up to my innocent ingenue ears in The Matter of Britain, I wrote a novel about Queen Guenevere. A publisher who…Continue readingWhen I was young and innocent
I am primarily a fantasy writer. That is how I view myself and my novels. But literary critics often have trouble labeling me, putting my books into neat little boxes.…Continue readingBut what is it?
So, then. Let us start at the beginning. After waking up at oh-dark-hundred, there I was at the Bellingham station ready to take the 8:32 Amtrak train to Portland. The…Continue readingOrycon time…
We are living in a science fiction novel. Is our species evolving into a new superorganism taking over Earth? Gaia Vince thinks so. At BBC.com he makes the provocative argument…Continue readingAre we the enemy?