This is a three-part update, subtitled “What the hell happened to June?” So one thing about living in Mexico that is very different from the US (or Canada, or the UK): we don’t really have four seasons here. That’s because the spring-summer-fall-winter progression is a phenomenon specific to temperate latitudes, and most of Mexico is sub-tropical or tropical. In Köppen-Geiger…
I just realized that I posted about my latest story publication everywhere online except … my own actual web site. <facepalm> “Hope Is the Thing With Feathers” — my short story about a nonspeaking autistic person, genetically engineered corvids, and the importance of self-determination — appears in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, July/August 2023 issue. Individual print copies are in bookstores…
For a while last summer, during the initial burst of productivity engendered by new ADHD meds, I had the private goal of finishing my novel draft by my fifty-third birthday. That marker just passed — and nope, I’m not even close. The best I can say is that I can see the halfway point from here. I have of course…
Contracts for the short story I talked about in August turned up at long last and have been negotiated and signed, so that I can now finally announce that “Hope Is the Thing With Feathers” has sold to Asimov’s Science Fiction. Still don’t have any idea which issue, but it seems reasonable to hope for sometime in 2023 … A…
In looking over my early posts to this new blog, I realize that something very important fell into the gaping hole between September 2020 and July 2022, and I want to amend the record now. In June 2020 I wrote about how, despite being pro-vax in general, the fact that all vaccines come with extra, horrifying risk for me in…
I believe Jak was the one to first point out that we had relatively useless kitchen-adjacent space which might be brought inside, an idea that I grabbed onto desperately in my quest for kitchen improvement. Even with that expansion, though, there were still a lot of pre-existing constraints in play, so everything about the design was an exercise in tradeoffs.…
I have so many things swirling around in my head right now I’ve decided to let them settle for a bit and instead, give you the long-promised before-and-after shots of The Great Kitchen Remodel That Took Actual Years Off My Life (But Goddammit Was Still Worth It). The brief recap: in January 2017, Jak and I bought a small (2BR…
Last time I talked about my novel, I touched on some of the struggles I was experiencing as I started writing Act Two. I had progressed swimmingly through what seemed like a solid Act One beginning, with some really excellent writing, and then I hit the middle part and found myself dog-paddling. I am reminded very much of my early…