I am currently in a part of the world where towns have names like Grewelthorpe, Winksley, Buttertubs, Reeth, Scab Hill, Copsgrove, Giggleswick, Todmorden, and Bakup. Honestly, it’s as if PG Wodehouse invented the whole country. These are the ruins of Whitby Abbey.  Historians know this as the home of St. Hilda and the Venerable Bede, […]

Or so I thought, anyway, as I turned the corner in the Royal Armory and came face-to-face with this fellow. But no, it’s elephant armor from the Mughal Empire. It’s bad enough facing one of these things.  A whole division of them charging, and I’m taking the next train to Hyderabad.

I’m flying off on Wednesday for that royal throne of kings, that sceptred isle, that earth of majesty, that seat of Mars, that other Eden, demi-paradise, that fortress built by Nature for herself against infection and the hand of war. Which is to say, England.  Where I will be Guest of Honor at EightSquaredCon, this year’s […]

There are still places available at Taos Toolbox, the master class in writing science fiction and fantasy taught by Nancy Kress, yours truly, and Melinda Snodgrass. You want to write, right?  Of course you do.  And Taos Toolbox is a place that will give you the tools that you need. We await your application with interest. […]