In Which A Husband Surprises His Wife

In Which A Husband Surprises His Wife

I continue to work hard on The Fall. The weird thing is, I can see the whole thing in my head. I just can’t get it out. So my husband interrupted my hard-scrabble attempt to finish another chapter by dragging me off to a car dealership. It seems my hardened...

Relativity, and Other Fine Tales

The more scientifically geeky of my readers may have noticed that in my books, I have people talking to each other across interstellar distances. In real time. Sometimes one of them is on a ship traveling at relativistic speeds, and no one is the wiser. They might as...

Discover Slooh

This may be old news to some of you, but a few days ago, I discovered the Slooh Space Camera while searching out information about the new nova in the constellation Delphinus. I’m not a scientist — just a geek. This got me really excited. Slooh webcasts...

The Weather

This August has been the coolest I’ve experienced since moving to Pittsburgh nearly 4 years ago. With highs in the 70’s, sometimes low 80’s, and lows dropping down into the 50’s, sometimes even the 40’s, it feels like summer is over and...

Getting INTO the Corner

So here’s the thing about The Fall: I wrote it knowing where I was going with the story, but I couldn’t get from about a third of the way through it to the middle. I skipped that bit and kept going, and the second half of the book wrote itself. Now I have...