If you want to watch the transit of Venus NASA is hosting a webcast from a telescope in Hawaii.  You can watch it here.  Presumably we're all science fiction people, and this is a very rare event.  Doubt any of us will be around for the next one. Enjoy.

After the fantastic experience of the partial eclipse I was really looking forward to the transit of Venus.  Alas, clouds are in our future.  Which is hard because New Mexico needs the rain so desperately, but I really wanted to see this event since I'm not...

I realized something after a very busy and productive day yesterday.  I like to write.  I mean that literally.  I like to sit at a keyboard, and put words down.  People might say, "Well, duh.  You're a writer.  Of course you like to...

I can plot like a fiend.  I'm really good at it.  It's usually very easy for me.  Easy when I know the final scene of a book or a story.  I had a final scene for my Old Mars story, but had a feeling placing the action off stage wasn't going to...

This may seem like simplistic advice to many people, but it’s odd how many folks don’t understand how publishing actually works or is supposed to work.  So I turned to my friend, John Jarrold for help and advice on how to approach this. Here is the...

Somehow in all my years on this planet I have never seen any kind of solar eclipse.  Lunar eclipses many times, but yesterday we had an eclipse party.  At about 3:00 p.m. my friend Ian and I packed up a couple of folding chairs, and a big jug of water and we...

I wish that was a reference to something exciting and nefarious, but it's just me describing my morning.  I've been putting cards on the board for the Wild Card movie, and started stressing over needing a B story.  Then I realized I already had a B story,...

Here's a few simple rules that need to be followed.  When you get exposed for having done something cruel and dickish that has haunted your fellow actors all their lives.  Do not first say you "don't remember the incident."  Stand up and own it. Second,...

I liked it a lot.  I went with GRRM, Parris, Raya and Ty yesterday afternoon.  Our timing was perfect.  The crowds weren't bad (Santa Fe isn't much of a movie town), we had great seats, and anticipation was high.  I was going to get my fix of...

I love King for a lot of reasons.  Some of them personal.  He treated a terrified newly minted writer with great kindness, humor and friendship when I got assigned to autograph with him at an S.F. convention many years ago.  I didn't even have a book...