Can You Hear Me Now?

I just got finished performing in Emily Jiang's telepresence choir. I have to say, that is one of the strangest performing experiences I've ever participated in. Half the choir was physically present at the venue in Palo Alto, half was Skyped in via tablets from places as far as four time zones away. The music…

My very first arty thing!

Omg, you guys, you guys!! I got... I don't know if you'd call it fanart or book schwag or authorial schwag, but I got something from a fellow reader/writer that is arty and is related to my book! It is my VERY FIRST piece of arty stuff related to my book (by someone who isn't…

Crossovers!

A friend of mine posted on Facebook about the new Agents of SHIELD spinoff, commenting that in the not-to-distant future, all we'd have would be Marvel-inspired versions of our favorite shows, like Law & Order: Special Villains Unit or Pride and Prejudice and the Punisher. I was charmed by the idea of Lizzie Bennett going…

My Hugo Nominations

In between unpacking my books today, I've been following the various discussions about what to do about the Hugo voting this year and how to address the deeply conservative, demonstrably sexist, racist, and anti-queer movement instituting a slate-based nomination process as a way to game the system and shut out any other voices but the…