“It’s Probably Fine” : Winter 2020
Well, it’s been nine months. I’d say that a lot has happened, but that’s kind of an understatement. COVID hit Washington State early, in late February, right after RadCon. The Army wasted no time in designating me “Essential Personnel”...
Schedule: Radcon 8, Pasco, WA Feb 14-16 2020
Radcon this year is my busiest schedule at any con I’ve done, yet. As you can see below, several of these panels are geared toward me in particular, and several more are geared toward my particular areas of expertise as an author, adventurer, martial artist,...
Research IS Writing: Adventure Travel
So, something fun. We took a week and did a retreat to the desert. Well, not so much a retreat as a frontal assault, but the point is, we left the rainy Northwest and ended up in the desert. Some of you may remember that the desert and I don’t get along so well. I’m...
On Process: Using the Force, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Type with my Eyes Closed
It’s been a while since I’ve posted to this blog. Quite a bit has happened since WorldCon, most of it on the writing side of things. What I mean by that is that I’ve been writing like crazy, which doesn’t leave me a lot of time for blog posts....
After-Action Report: WorldCon 2019
“. . . within four hours of announcing that I’d engineered sexual violence out of my worldbuilding—that I’d used it in Dragon’s Trail to show the difference in societies but I’ll never use it again—Dragon’s Trail sold every paperback copy that we’d brought.”
