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My poem, “The Green Lady,” will be published by Aberrant Dreams in 2008. It is great to work with AD again, and I am very pleased they liked this poem.
My review of Stephen Jones’ H.P. Lovecraft in Britain: A Monograph was also recently published by the SF Site.

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There are many different terms for different discrete sections of time in roleplaying games. For example, a large linked sequence of stories is a campaign or chronicle.
Individual sections of a campaign might be called a story.
Sections of a story might be a session or chapter.
A session is made up of scenes.
Scenes are sometimes divided into […]

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I am in Dallas with Reesa’s mom, Deborah, after flying back this evening. The rest of the Dream Café is headed back by car with TxAnne, driving through the night.
I’m exhausted and my brain is churning in ways I can’t even write about yet. The panels were stimulating and we’re all full of ideas and […]

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It seems like the revival of Fourth Street Fantasy is a success, if one judges by the first day alone. The two panels today — From Cool Idea to Story and Grinding Buttons and Pushing Axes were entertaining and stimulating. The fascinating discussions that began there spilled over into the bar, the restaurant, and the […]

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Last night Steve’s friend Tesla hosted a wonderful party with good scotch and better music. We all had a wonderful time. Today 4th Street starts. Steve is already getting ready while Reesa & I are eating some food in the hotel’s cafe prior to opening ceremonies. The hotel is filling up with people in yellow […]

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We’d hoped to make a post before we left, but the last 24 hours have been extremely hectic ones at the Dream Café. We tried, and failed to finish our move from Slutbarn into the new Dream Café — we’ll be finishing it up after the con. After not a lot of sleep we ran […]

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Elizabeth Bear linked to this article in her blog today about how the top authors feel pressure from their publishers to produce a book a year. I don’t have any issue with the main thrust of the article, but what interests me is the first sentence.
In an age when reading for pleasure is declining, book […]

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Not quite. But we understand that there is a photo of the Dream Café residents, along with the glorious Kij Johnson, in the June 8 issue of Locus (which should already be on the stands). The photo is from the Nebula Awards, which we crashed like the vicious party crashers we are.

Clockwise from Left: […]

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Reesa and I will be presenting at Arse Elektronika 2008, a conference on sexuality and technology that takes place in San Francisco this September. This year’s theme is “Do Androids Sleep with Electric Sheep?” and deals with the influence of science fiction (and “social fiction”) on technology and the future. Our paper, “What is the […]

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I’ve been kind of distracted this month, so I neglected to mention that you can read my review of Michael Flynn’s novel Eifelheim on the SF Site.  I found this novel to be moving and effective and I recomend it highly.

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