Category: Non-Fiction
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Hugo Award Nomination Deadline: March 9th
Only members of the World Science Fiction Society can nominate works for a Hugo Award, but you do NOT have to be traveling to the World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow (or have traveled to Chengdu last year) to nominate SFF works you loved. You just have to buy a WSFS membership. In return, you…
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Word for 2024
Here is my annual* post about my word for 2024. In case you missed it, my 2020 word was content, both for a year of creating content and a year of feeling intentionally content-ed while making it. My 2021 word was joined by what I called “shoulder” words at the time: intention, momentum, roll. Would…
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Daily Synchronicity and a Reading Recommendation
This post is a tale of daily synchronicity, earth science, and some reading recommendations.
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Bibliography at Bookshop.org
In my attempt to support local bookstores and become less dependent on Amazon (where I can), I’ve added a new list called ‘Towel Day Ambassador 2023 Bibliography’ at Bookshop.org.
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2022 Reading Roundup
This is my 2022 reading roundup where I reflect on and share the stand-out books from last year’s reading life.
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Change and Spiritual Heartburn
It is a week of change and spiritual heartburn, a new phrase from a post I read today that resonated with me: “Our version [of change] is cooked and swallowed like something from McDonald’s. It’s Panta Rhei fast-food style, and we suffer an equal spiritual heartburn from the speed.” Erik Brown on Medium The final…
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Recent Writing: Cozy Reaction
Every once in a while, I remember that The Drink Tank exists and I go binge a bunch of issues. Last time I did this, I felt compelled to send in comments about a topic near and dear to my heart: Cozy Mysteries. If you’re curious about what I had to say in response to…
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Marketing for Authors
An antidote to the poisonous fear of book marketing is to LOVE YOUR BOOK. Love it so hard that you cannot wait to find the kind of people who are going to be made SO HAPPY by it.
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Bye, Olieo.
We were together for 13-ish years, and he never lost me once. In a few hours I have to walk into the vet’s office with a smart dog who always kept me on my toes and walk out with nothing but loss.