My 2020 Capclave Schedule

October isn’t just Halloween. It’s also Capclave, the Washington DC area’s hometown science fiction and fantasy convention. Like so many cons, they’ve gone virtual this year, but that doesn’t mean the guests or the programming are any less stellar. Guests of Honor...

My 2020 Dragon Con reading

One of the nice things about Virtual Dragon Con 2020 is we get to share some of the things that usually go no further than our audience’s ears, like my reading from four of my SF stories for the SF Literature Track....

Someone’s in the kitchen with Arturo

Like a lot of folks in these locked down times, I think about food. A lot–what I can find, what I can persuade people to deliver, and what I can cook. There is a school of culinary thought that says all US cuisine derives from African-American cuisine, and...

“The Wrong Refrigerator” Happy Dance

It’s official. (I mean it’s in Locus Magazine. You can’t get more official than that, right?) I can now happy dance in public. “The Wrong Refrigerator” is one of the finalists in the novelette category of this year’s Asimov’s...

“Cat Pictures Please” with a side of Aeslin Mice

Don’t expect me to rip the bandage off any dark secrets in this year’s #HoldOntoTheLight essay. No, I’m not blowing off the campaign. Yes, there’s a blog ahead. But I’m not going to beat myself up about it. I’m snuffling through the infamous Post Dragon-Con Crud...