Booksigning March 22 @ 2–4:00pm
Looking for your next good read? Need a gift for Mother’s Day?
Join me, Patty Flores Reinhart, and my BFF Jennifer Skully at Beyond Text Bookshop in Los Gatos, CA on Saturday, March 22 from 2-4:00pm!

Looking for your next good read? Need a gift for Mother’s Day?
Join me, Patty Flores Reinhart, and my BFF Jennifer Skully at Beyond Text Bookshop in Los Gatos, CA on Saturday, March 22 from 2-4:00pm!

If you read steampunk novels, graphic novels, or watch steam-flavored movies (Adele Blanc-Sec, anyone?), you know that the history therein is a mixture of reality, alternate reality, and the neverwas but could-have-been. And that’s why we like it! Now and again I’ll get reader letters that say how much the person enjoyed the history in…
Continuing my series of thinking out loud about the panels I’ll be on at AnomalyCon at the end of March, next up is “The Care and Feeding of Literary Villains.” Those folks we love to hate. Those folks without whom we might not have a story. I like a good villain. When I was little, every cartoon…
Next up in my series of thinking out loud about the panels at AnomalyCon on March 25–27 is “The Making of a Hero.” This is a subject I enjoy cogitating on because crafting a believable story arc for a hero from mouse to master is a lot of fun. Case in point: Lady Claire Trevelyan. We…
Yesterday, I did something I’ve never done before—a Google Hangout with steampunk readers from all over, hosted by the lovely Diana and Claudia in Portugal. Each month the EuroSteamCon folks interview a different steampunk author on the Road to EuroSteamCon, putting me in such august company as Jim Butcher and Cherie Priest ::fans self:: We…
For the most part, a writer’s life is spent in solitude at the keyboard, at the desk, with a pad and pen (or in my case, out in the garden with the chickens, typing madly on my trusty Alphasmart Neo). But of necessity, we have to come out of our private spaces into the public…
It’s almost time to go to AnomalyCon! I gave an all-day workshop two weekends ago, this weekend I’m giving 9 hours of workshops (filling in at the last minute for a speaker who became ill), and this time next weekend I’ll be in Denver. I don’t know how this spring got so filled with engagements,…