Booksigning March 22 @ 2–4:00pm

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…

On the weekend of March 25–27, I’ll be one of the guests of honor at AnomalyCon, a steampunk-flavored SF convention in Denver, Colorado. Yesterday, when I told her what I was doing, Gail Carriger looked delighted and assured me I’d have a wonderful time, and advised me to take lots of costumes! Upon which I resolved…

The schedule is up and I’m on it five times! I’m not quite sure how that happened, but this wide-eyed first-timer is very grateful. You can find the whole shebang on the WorldCon site. But here are my appearances in a nutshell: Thursday August 16, 2018 Carriger & Adina Talk Steampunk (tea and silliness optional) …

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…

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…