There are still a few seats left at Taos Toolbox, the master class for writers of science fiction and fantasy.  This year’s instructors are Nancy Kress and Walter Jon Williams, along with special lecturer Jack Skillingstead. (Last year a Toolbox grad won a Hugo award.  This year another grad is up for a Campbell.  You […]

So when did it become okay to write about our tribe? I am prompted to ask this question by reading Among Others, by Jo Walton.  Which is about growing up as an Anglo-Welsh science fiction reader in the 1970s— the sort of person who reads Delany and Heinlein and Plato’s Symposium all at the same […]

Daniel Abraham writes unconventional fantasies like The Long Price Quartet and the Hugo-nominated “Cambist and Lord Iron” (available here in podcast form).  Now he’s launched a new high fantasy series, Dagger and Coin, with its first volume, The Dragon’s Path. The packaging is rather conventional, leading you to believe that this is going to be […]

It’ll be Tax Day in less than a week, and preparing my own 1040 has reminded me that it’s time for another installment of The Writer’s Life. As you will no doubt recall, this is Part Four of a series of posts about my early years as a writer, with my old tax returns supplementing […]