I’ve had a very busy few months. This month is no less busy. But if recovering from a virus isn’t a sufficient excuse for self-indulgence, then what is? Time for another reverie . . . Cast your mind back to April last, and Day 14 of our Turkish Expedition . . . 6 April, 2006 […]

I seem to be in the middle of another Luck Storm. Unfortunately— so far— the luck is not good. My office computer died rather suddenly. Though I thought I had been diligent in backing up everything, I find I’ve lost all my email from 1 January to 6 December, 2006. I wonder what I said? […]

Attention, anyone who’s trying to write this stuff! Connie Willis and I, with the assistance of George R.R. Martin, will be teaching a master class in writing science fiction and fantasy next year in Taos. The workshop will run July 8-21, 2007. Cost including lodging and almost all meals, $2400.00. The class is called Taos […]

I hear that Mickey Spillane died recently. My acquaintance with the Spillane oeuvre was brief. I was a teenager, staying at a mountain resort with my family. The resort’s common room— the place with the pingpong and card tables and the comfy sofa with its cracked leather cushions— had a bookshelf where people could leave […]