The Past = Drudgery For Women
This post is ultimately going to be about how life for women prior to 1900 was nothing but drudgery and toil unless they were fortunate enough to be rich and have servants, but first some background. I've been having exciting adventures with the Viessmann boiler that...
Living Life On Your Own Terms — Kay McCauley
I met Kay McCauley at the World Science Fiction Convention in Toronto back in 2003. I was in desperate need of a new literary agent, and George offered to introduce me to his agent. Kay was there to support George who was the GoH, but wasn’t much into the convention...
Votes, Like Elections, Have Consequences
As few days ago I heard Jon Meacham, imminent historian and author of numerous history books, the most recent about Representative John Lewis, one of the lions of the Civil Rights Movement. Meacham said something on a news show that shook me. Unfortunately, I’ve been...
What She Meant
2020 was the year where we lost two giants who led in the pursuit of justice and a more perfect union. Representative John Lewis who fought for civil rights and voting rights to the point of shedding blood and nearly dying on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, and Ruth Bader...
This Is The Test
"It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free..." Abraham Lincoln. Last night I engaged in a...
Consider… Cows….
I was scrolling through Twitter this morning and came across a gif of a group of cows jumping over the white line on a road. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHneXbfFwsc And it reminded me of a funny Roger Zelazny/Wild Cards story. Also how Roger was freaking brilliant...
Let Memories Pass Away
I don't often do this, but in this "splendid" Covid isolation I don't have anyone to talk this out with so I'm going to pour it out on the page. Typical writer, right? So on Wednesday evening a lovely family came and took away the sort-of-antique-beds that were in the...
Grief, Rage & Sorrow
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”― Edmund Burke We are where we are — 76,740 dead from Covid-19 — because of the cowardice of putatively good men, brave men, intelligent men, patriotic men. Where is Rex Tillerson who...
Monsters or Humans, Who Makes the Better Villain?
I've been pacing and staring at the white board trying to lay out the full plot for book 4 of the Edge series. This one's called The Edge of Infinity. I know the final scene of the book, I have major (tent pole) scenes, and lots of plot threads some of which are to...
It’s Hard to Say Goodbye
You become invested in the characters you create for your books and even scripts if a character becomes a recurring character on a show. I had that happen on Reasonable Doubts, and it was cool. It was very hard for me to write the end of the relationship between that...
