Memorial Day Weekend is just around the corner, and we all know what that means—Balticon! Celebrate the real start of summer with a couple thousand of your favorite friends at Baltimore’s Renaissance Harborplace Hotel. Oh …
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My Schedule for Capclave 2017
Capclave, my hometown con specializing in short fiction, is coming up this weekend. Don’t miss your chance to see our award-winning guests of honor, Ken Liu and Neil Clarke, as well as hang with the …
My Balticon 2017 Schedule
Spring has sprung, and Memorial Day is less than a week away. You know what that means: Balticon! This year’s con will again be held at the Marriott Renaissance overlooking Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, May 26-29. …
Misbehaving in real time
From today’s personal Facebook feed. (I’m better behaved on my author page. Honest!) Reading the latest celebrity news out of Washington, my Pentagon analyst—er, writer brain started making a list: – Orders inappropriate menu choices …
The Annual Awards Eligibility Post, 2017 Edition
We writers ask a lot of our readers. Not only do we ask you to read–and love!–our stuff, we want you to buy it, rate it, review it, and yes, nominate it for awards. Reading …
My Capclave 2016 Schedule
It’s Capclave season! If you’ll be in the Washington, DC, area this weekend, you couldn’t do better than to join us at the Gaithersburg Hilton for the MDV’s premier science fiction/fantasy literary convention. This year’s …
I Thought I Was one of the Good Guys : a #HoldOntoTheLight Post
A blog post in support of #HoldOnToTheLight SF/F Authors and Fans for Mental Wellness Everybody wants to be a hero. Finding our cause might take a while, but it’s always there waiting. For me the …
My schedule for Dragon Con 2016
Almost forgot the promotional part of running away to join the circus that is Dragon Con—my schedule! Hope to see you there. This year’s con is sure to be more amazing than usual, since the …
My Schedule for Balticon 50
Taking a moment away from baking double batches of molasses cookies and pecan snowballs to share my tentative schedule for Balticon 50. Why did I tantalize you by mentioning baked goods made with butter and …
The Baltimore Book Festival and me
For the second year in a row, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) has invited me to participate in the Baltimore Book Festival, September 24-26. *user rubs hands in anticipation and utters …