Onward Into the Past

August 19, 2022

Back in April Kathy and I drove the three and a half hours to Portales for the 45th Jack Williamson Lecture, and had to figure out how we were going to entertain ourselves for the long drive across the Llano Estecado. Kathy suggested we listen to the audio book of To Glory Arise, the first […]

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Exterminator Wanted

August 15, 2022

At 5:30am I was awakened by a spider biting me on the haunch. I was somewhat familiar with the sensation, since last year I was bitten twice, on two successive nights, by a large centipede that had taken up residence in my easy chair. After the second bite, I jumped up, turned on the light, […]

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Props

August 6, 2022

I stumbled across a review of Hilary G. Hallett’s Inventing the It Girl, a biography of the potboiler novelist Elinor Glyn, who is credited with inventing the form and style of the Hot Romance in the early 20th century. You’d likely recognize the image of a person in a sleek gown of silk velvet, languidly […]

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Fully Housed

July 24, 2022

A new Wild Cards volume— #30!!!— has been released with a story of mine in it. There are also stories by Daniel Abraham, Victor Milan, Caroline Spector, Carrie Vaughn, David D. Levine, Paul Cornell, Melinda Snodgrass, Stephen Leigh, and Marko Kloos. A powerful group of writers to set loose in the wilds of Jokertown. This […]

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Available or Not

July 21, 2022

Audiobooks of The Macedonian and Cat Island, the final two books (of three) about Favian Markham, USN, have been released, narrated by Bronson Pinchot, who is very fine indeed. The problem is that I can’t seem to find The Macedonian anywhere but on Audible’s own site, and there I had to go to some effort […]

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Portrait of the Young Man as an Artist

July 15, 2022

From the archives, a photo of me dating from 1980. I’m a brand-new writer, with a three-book deal but nothing yet in print. In this photo I’m in England, researching the Privateer books. (The librarian at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich was a great help.) In another year or two I’d ditch the spectacles and […]

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Lynch and Who???

July 8, 2022

Today I learned a mind-croggling facticle, which is that Mel Brooks produced “The Elephant Man” film. (He kept his name off the project so the people wouldn’t expect a roistering Mel Brooks comedy.) The thought of Brooks and David Lynch collaborating on a film has me stripping my mental gears. But then Brooks also collaborated […]

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Flames

July 7, 2022

So I’m now well into Heaven in Flames, the third book in the Metropolitan sequence. I’m confronting the normal problems of writing a sequel: how much of the backstory to reveal at any given moment, working out how the characters may have changed, and— after a gap of 25 years— how well I remember what […]

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Achievement Unlocked

June 26, 2022

First there was Taos Toolbox, and then there was . . . this. Four days after the workshop ended, I successfully tested for my 6th degree black belt in Kenpo Karate. In the days since, I’ve been judging at the tests of lower-ranking belts, and participating in a demonstration in front of a live audience. […]

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Sleepless at Sonesta

June 19, 2022

Someday I may catch up on my sleep. Until then I’ll just cut and paste from Nancy’s Facebook wall. More quotes from Taos Toolbox: “I want the details about how Grandma got wrapped up in vines.” “I cannot picture a ‘godscoop’ non-hilariously.” “Every dystopia needs a good investigative reporter.” “The time between the candy dish […]

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