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The light was fading fast. Current word count: 39,570New words this session: 1,490Percentage of novel completed: 39.5

So here I am, getting ready to fly off to Vancouver to spend a few days in a hotel while attending the VCon science fiction convention to promote the paperback release this week of my science fiction novel Lost in Translation (was that a subtle enough plug?), and I read this: “A common cold can …

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Today’s the big day! The paperback reprint of my science fiction novel Lost in Translation has been officially released by DAW Books, and should be available in stores and online at Amazon.com and other locations. You can read prologue and first chapter online. The cover art is by Steve Stone. Here’s the back blurb: Kathryn …

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As you know, I was underwhelmed by what I have seen of the new Sony eReader. So is Robert J. Sawyer, for reasons I agree with. Thus far, he prefers his PDA…as do I (well, actually I prefer my own PDA, but you know what I mean).

You would think, Chris Keating thought as he lay on the thinly padded bed that was the only furnishing of note in his cell in the Hansen’s Harbor Criminal Detention Center, that almost having my head blown off on the pier by an enraged Selkie would be enough to convince the Grand Deacon I’m on …

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I’ve blogged before about the 19th-century writer Edward Willett (just one in a long line of Edward Willetts that have included pewterers, innkeepers, and other interesting people over the centuries). On a whim I did a book search on Google. None of his books turned up fully digitized, but I did find the poem at …

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“Stellar vampires unmasked.”

…in Neil Armstrong’s famous quote when he became the first human to set foot on the moon may have been solved.

For one heart-stopping moment of sheer terror, Emily stood in utter blackness. Current word count: 36,806New words this session: 1,377Percentage of novel completed: 36.8

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