I guess it’s time to take stock of what’s happened in my life over the last twelve months, both professionally and personally… In 2018, I had two fiction stories published: “Go, Space Racer!” in Playboy Magazine “Players” in Kaleidotrope I also wrote…
New Year, New Blog
As you can see, I finally bit the bullet and joined everyone in the 21st century with a WordPress “journal” (which sounds classier than “blog” and I’m classy af). I’ve imported everything from my old blog and it seems to…
Jasper Died on a Sunday
He died six months ago:Sunday, June 10th, 2018.He passed away at 4:27PM.It was raining outside. Tye was with him.We were all with him. The whole family was together.He was happy.Tired, but happy. He was tiredand he justwent to sleeponelasttime. Our…
My Worldcon 2018 Schedule
I’ll be in San Jose next week for Worldcon 76, and wonder of wonders, I am actually scheduled to be on some programming items! Here’s where you can find me: FRIDAY, 17 Aug 2018 SFWA Business Meeting08:00 – 10:00, 210DH…
My Norwescon 41 Schedule
It’s that time of year: I don’t know why Norwescon always falls on Easter weekend (probably some combination of hotel contracts and fannish tradition) but it’s happening again! If you’ll be there at the end of this month, here’s where…
2017 Year-End Writerly Post
It’s that time of the year when writers blog about their award-eligible works published in the last calendar year. Well, I only had one work published in 2017: If you read and enjoyed Kangaroo Too, please talk it up anywhere…
My OryCon 39 Schedule
This coming weekend I’ll be at OryCon, a science fiction/fantasy convention held annually in Portland since 1979. This year it’s at the Red Lion Hotel on Jantzen Beach. When not at the bar, here’s where you can find me (moderator…
My Can*Con Schedule
Next weekend (October 13-15) I’ll be at Can*Con, the Conference on Canadian Content in Speculative Arts and Literature in Ottawa. And no, I am not Canadian, but they’re letting me crash their party anyway. (Thanks to my literary agent Sam…
Crazy Squirrel
There are lots of squirrels running around our apartment complex. Sometimes we throw peanuts out onto our back patio for them to eat. We try not to do it while they’re watching, because we don’t want them to get the…
Waypoint Kangaroo is an Endeavour Award Finalist!
ICYMI last weekend: my debut novel is one of this year’s finalists for the Endeavour Award, “for a distinguished SCIENCE FICTION or FANTASY BOOK written by a Pacific Northwest author or authors and published in the previous year.” Hearty congratulations…