Tomorrow I will attend the Southwest Area Killifish Event. It marks my first tropical fish convention. This is the big regional killifish convention that features egg-laying toothcarp fish. They are cousins to livebearing toothcarps such as mollies, swordtails, guppies, and of course Endler’s Livebearers. This year’s event is also featuring… Continue reading
Labor Day always reminds me of a time nearly two decades ago when I worked for a small company that manufactured ferrites–think the shield beads on your laptop’s power cord. It was a privately-owned company and I worked there for about 9 months. On the Tuesday after Labor Day, I… Continue reading
Back in 2005, when I attended Orson Scott Card’s Literary Boot Camp, a woman named Rachel Drydan applied to go. Instead of approving her attendance, Orson Scott Card bought her application story for Intergalactic Medicine Show under the theory that he couldn’t teach her anything. Five years and a few… Continue reading
My Coppercon schedule has changed. Here are the updated times. Sat 1p-230p, Court A.  LIT – What IS SF?  (moderator) Sun 5p-530p, Breakfast Nook.   LIT – Reading Sun 6p-7p, Court B    LIT  – Cross Cultural Writing Mon 1p-2p, Court A.   LIT – World Building… Continue reading
It’s been a long last couple of days. Sunday I attended day 3 of LepreCon36 and sat on a panel about the (un)glamorous life of a writer with Melinda Snodgrass and Rick Cook. The topic being loosely defined, we ended up talking about various aspects of life as a writer,… Continue reading
Today was the day I earned my free pass to the staff lounge and the food inside. I sat on two panels, had a reading and a signing. I read from “Return to the Moon” and from “Espantalho de Sao Paolo,” both unpublished works and had good reaction from both…. Continue reading
I spent much of yesterday at LepreCon 36 in Mesa, Arizona. I’m on program but I had nothing scheduled for friday. That allowed me to simply sit in panels and listen the way I did before I started being invited to be a participant. At the meet the guests party,… Continue reading
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