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...
