Spin Tricks

August 13, 2013

Taos Toolbox ended over the weekend, and in the days since I’ve mostly been staring at the walls, and murmuring to myself, “Guess it’s time to do the critiques.” On the last day Nancy and I taught a special class in spinning people through the air with the power of our minds, as illustrated by the photograph. […]

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The Ursoid Cometh

August 5, 2013

I’m pleased to report a visit from the mascot of Taos Toolbox, who appeared on the cliff above the lodge and gave us the once-over. I’m pleased because every year we’ve had an ursoid visitor, the classes have been harmonious and were followed by an unusual number of sales. One of which happened just yesterday. […]

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Angel Sale!

August 3, 2013

I’m pleased to announce that for the next week or so, the ebook of my novel Angel Station is on sale for a mere $0.99.  (Or, if you live outside North America, for whatever $0.99 is worth in your currency, probably 00,99.) You may find Angel Station at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Smashwords, and other places like Baker & […]

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Field Exercises

July 31, 2013

Let it not be said that we at Taos Toolbox leave any educational stone unturned!  Today’s literary exercise took us into the field, to green, fragrant Yerba Canyon, in order to visit the Taos Toolbox Sacrifice Stone and re-enact The Hunger Games. Here’s Toolbox student Jessica May Lin‘s take on the exercise, featuring fellow student Kenneth Kao.    

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Crossing the Threshold

July 29, 2013

Today was the first day of Taos Toolbox, the master class for science fiction run by Nancy Kress and my ownself.  We’re up the Ski Valley with fourteen talented, hard-working students, and we spend a lot of time talking about writing. To get an idea of what we talk about, check out this masterful exposition […]

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Rejoicing Over the Water

July 26, 2013

Awright, my friends, Implied Spaces is finally available in electronic form outside North America! Because Nook and Smashwords aren’t very good about separating North American rights from others, the book is available only on Kobo and Amazon.  (Here’s Amazon.co.uk.  It’s also available on all the other Amazons outside North America.) I can’t provide you a […]

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Minutes I’ll Never See Again

July 26, 2013

I finally went to see one of the summer blockbusters (World War Z), only to find that it was preceded by forty minutes of previews and ads.  Forty minutes from the time when the movie was supposed to start. Forty minutes I’ll never see again.  Some of the ads were shown more than once! What […]

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Pretend Reading

July 24, 2013

Bookriot has published a list, complete with a handy Venn diagram, of books people lie about having read, along with books they wish they’ve read. (Both they, and I, were a little surprised that Pride & Prejudice topped both lists.  It’s not as if comprehending the adventures of Miss Elizabeth Bennett require knowledge of post-structuralist theory, now […]

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Tea Time

July 22, 2013

British author Guy Walters recently had what (for me) would be an incredibly successful signing, in which he spoke to 800 people and sold no less than sixty hardback books!  And then he added up his expenses (driving 250 miles and spending two nights away from home), considered his compensation (a few gift bottles of […]

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Commodities

July 22, 2013

So Goldman Sachs, Wall Street’s House of All That’s Evil, has figured out a way to magically lift money from all our pockets. It turns out that while Congress was busy passing all 875 bewildering pages of the Dodd-Frank Act to better regulate our financial titans, they also loosened some regulations, and big banks are […]

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