Blogger is Misbehaving

See that little box over on the right that says Current Work In Progress? I was happily editing it daily, watching the number go up with a lot of satisfaction, and yesterday, it stopped working. In the editing popup, I can click the Save button until the sun goes...

A Week at the Races

I seem to have neglected my blog again. Not because I forget about it — I don’t — but because I’ve been so focused on writing book 3 of the Tales of Tolari Space that I just didn’t have any creative energy left over to write much of...

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...

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...

Writerly

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...