I have three stories that will appear on Sharable.net over the next three days. They are examining what it might be like to make a film in a future with an economy based on sharing and cooperation. Each story can stand alone but hopefully you get more out of them when they are read as […]
My SF story “A Type of Favor” is online at Sharable.net Read More »
What we have here is a short film in which Michael Winslow (Man of 10,000 sound FX from Police Academy) “recites” the history of typewriters. Watching him listen to the sound of a typewriter and then recreate it is strangely compelling. History of the typewriter recited by Michael Winslow from SansGil—Gil Cocker on Vimeo. (Thanks
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I think I have recovered enough from traveling to catch you up on the last couple of days. Saturday I arrived in Seattle about a half hour before the Locus Awards banquet was due to start. I’d changed clothes on the train and was wearing an seasonally inappropriate Hawaiian print sundress and cute strappy heels.
Travel, Locus, More travel, Girl Scouts and audio books Read More »
15:25 At the airport to go home to Portland. I will be home for less than 8 hours then go to Seattle for the Locus awards. # 15:57 Man, JFK is brutally hot and smells like the subway. That, at least, has working a/c. # 16:54 Is anyone going from Portland to Seattle tomorrow? I
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I’m sitting at JFK and there is some question about if I will be flying out tonight. The flight is oversold and late. They are offering me a voucher and to fly me straight to Seattle tomorrow, in time to arrive for the Locus awards. We’ll see what happens with that. Before I left I
In the air and on the air Read More »
Why did I think that two weeks would be enough time to be here? Last night, after I returned from Philadelphia, I went to Henson Alternative: Stuffed and Unstrung with Jodi, Emily and Delia. It was loads of fun and some pretty impressive improv. With Muppets. Then this morning, I went uptown to meet with
Today and yesterday in a nutshell. Read More »
I’m giving away a copy of Shades of Milk and Honey on Goodreads. The drawing ends on July 20th and I will send the copy the moment I have it in my hot little hands so that some lucky person will get the novel before it hits the stores. Don’t worry if you aren’t a member
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I spent yesterday evening and part of today in Philadelphia, meeting with Stephen Segal to wrap up the layout on Weird Tales. This issue is a transition between his art direction and mine to make things smoother. I only have one more large thing to layout and then I think it’s off to the races
It is hot. HOT. I do not approve. Plus layout with melting brain. Read More »
The National Puppetry Conference at the Eugene O’Neil Theater center is one of my favorite things. It’s a ten-day intensive workshop focused on performance and the development of new works. At the end there are performances. This is from a couple of years ago and a fine example of puppeteer humor. Every person at the
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I should probably explain a little bit about what happens after an audition. In fiction, when I submit a story I will eventually hear back from a market with either an acceptance or a rejection. With auditions, you only hear back if they want to invite you on to the next level. So the thing
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I think I mentioned that Tor.com had released their nominated fiction for free on various platforms. This included my novelette, “First Flight” Apparently, it hit the #4 slot on Amazon for free downloads. Not for free SF, but for overall fiction. As you can see, three of other Tor downloads are also on there, which
First Flight hit #4 on Amazon’s free downloads. Boggles. Read More »
From the June 15th edition of Library Journal comes this really lovely review of Shades of Milk and Honey Readers will be disappointed only when they finish this enchanting story, which is suffused with genteel charm. The author’s judicious and effective changes to aspects of daily life clearly communicate how similar but different this world
Library Journal reviews (and likes) Shades of Milk and Honey Read More »
You know how you can tell when someone on tour has gone insane? It’s when they make something like this. So hard to look away… These are not the horse puppets you are looking for…
My Little Pony singing songs from Dreamgirls Read More »
It turns out that thinking of this as a callback wasn’t quite accurate. This was really for a different part within the same show, I think, since I was the only woman there who had also been tried on the big horse. The group was multi-ethnic which was really nice to see especially since the
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I’m off to my audition. It isn’t until 3pm but I want to allow an hour to get there — love NY — and figure I’ll spend the remaining time at Central Park watching the carriage horses. Also, sitting still is really no longer an option. I spent the evening working on the scene with
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