by Christie Meierz | Aug 28, 2013 | Uncategorized
I’m angry.Read this for background, and pay attention to the statistics.The problem of people being allergic to what’s in perfume is on the rise, and I have it. I keep my home as scent-free as possible. We use organic and/or unscented soaps, dish soaps,...
by Christie Meierz | Aug 27, 2013 | Uncategorized
Well, nothing, really. Although some might argue that many advances in science happen when one group of people is trying to figure out how to kill another group of people. You could argue, however, that we also make advances in science when peaceful people get excited...
by Christie Meierz | Aug 24, 2013 | Uncategorized
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...
by Christie Meierz | Aug 21, 2013 | Uncategorized
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...
by Christie Meierz | Aug 17, 2013 | Uncategorized
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...
by Christie Meierz | Aug 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
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...
by Christie Meierz | Aug 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
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...
by Christie Meierz | Aug 11, 2013 | Uncategorized
Yes, it’s been a while. Partly, I haven’t known what to say that could possibly follow winning a Prism award. Partly, beyond trying (sometimes unsuccessfully) to post short daily updates on my Facebook author page, I’ve had little to say. Truly, I lead a very...
by Christie Meierz | Jul 19, 2013 | Uncategorized
The Marann won the 2013 Prism award, Futuristic category! This is given by the Fantasy, Futuristic & Paranormal chapter of the Romance Writers of America (one of its largest chapters). I was stunned. They gave me a mic, and I don’t even know what I said. I...
by Christie Meierz | Jul 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
Tomorrow the husband and I are driving to Atlanta, Georgia for the RWA Nationals. There’s a workshop that I really want to attend in every single time slot, and in some cases, two. So this should be fun, educational, and exhausting. Thursday evening, I’ll...
